Tetris Turns 25
by E. Christopher Clark | Thursday, June 4, 2009
PHOTO: Nintendo Gameboy on Flickr by wwarby CC BY
I’ve spoken of my love for Tetris briefly in the past. It’s an amazing game, with an amazing story behind it. And this week it turned twenty-five years old. The Guardian has a great retrospective. Here’s a choice quote from Henk Rogers, one of the people instrumental in bringing the game to Nintendo’s Gameboy, which is where so many people my age first discovered it:
My first impression was that this game was too simple, that there was nothing to it. Then I came back and played it again. And again. Soon I realised there was something going on – no game had grabbed me at a show just like that.
You can read the full article here.
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Comments
Mary Ann says:
i love tetris…extremely addicting, though I know feel very very old :(
E. Christopher Clark says:
@Jeremy - That music! I actually don’t hear it anymore, because I’ve played so many versions without it. But every time someone mentions it, it comes right back to me.
@Mary Ann - There are so many things that make us feel old, damn it! We need something that makes us feel young. Hmm…
Mary Ann says:
chris when you figure out what can make us feel young… i’m in… :)
Jeremy Couturier says:
Tetris is really quite a stroke of gaming genius, and that damn music I can still hear in in my head.