Tetris 25th Anniversary – June 6, 2009
Jun 6th, 2009 by craig
Today I’m recognizing the 25th Anniversary of my favorite hand held electronic game: Tetris. I haven’t been playing Tetris 25 years, but I sure hope to still be playing 25 years from now. Some people have books in their bathroom – (“say, that would make a great bathroom book”), or even The Readers Digest. Not me, I have a GameBoy with Tetris in it. And have had it in there for many, many years. There are other games in there for my GameBoy, but none are played as much as my Tetris is. On my current version of the game (for the GameBoy Color) I’ve eliminated a little over 500,000 lines. Literally. I should exceed a million lines sometime in the year 2015. Don’t laugh, that’s only about 225 lines a day, and I easily do 200 lines during my daily morning trip to the bathroom. My current high score for a Marathon game is 4,869,808. My goal is to have a 5,000,000 point game. Of course, it will take a game paused and continued over several trips to the bathroom. I’ve done the 40 Lines game (at level 9 and the 5 high setting) in one minute and thirty-four seconds. Twice. My third quickest time is 1:35.
I do need to mention the familiar music that comes along with the Tetris game. Some time ago Ashley posted on her Tetris experience and the theme music. I was a little confused by that, as I realized that I never play the game with the music on. I always play “Tetris Muted.” I believe that’s what helps to keep me sane – to the degree that I’ve stayed sane.
I’m a big Tetris fan. I really don’t see a need for any other hand held game.
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In honor of the Tetris 25th Anniversary I’d like everyone to enjoy one of my favorite YouTube videos:
I love tetris. Though I haven’t played it in years. It’s one of those games where if I play it very long, it starts showing up in my dreams…. my brain thinks it has to make everything that shows up in the dream with the other things in the dream. I wake up mentally exhausted : )
I LOVE this video…. had forgotten about it – thanks for the reminder!
Oh my gosh, Allison, me too. I find while I’m reading or watching TV my mind will wonder and start figuring out Tetris scenarios. Actually, kind of frustrating.
Anyway, that being said I love the game, one of my favorite for my DS. But I must say, Craig, those are some impressive stats. I have never got that far, then again I’ve never tried the pausing method.
Anyway, Happy Anniversary Tetris!
hmmm… I really can’t recall Tetris interjecting itself into other areas of my life or my dreams. Perhaps the key is that I get plenty of it in my bathroom.
Holly: I have to pause my games, if I played a whole game while in the bathroom I’d be in there forever, and I’m already somewhat in danger of hanging out in the bathroom too long! 🙂 I find that about 200 lines is the longest I should actually be there.
I’m thankful to the makers of Tetris, for giving you something to do every morning when you wake up. 🙂 I am sure it has enriched your life.