Tetris
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Tetris
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Re: Tetris
#2Always love to read about Tetris! One of my favorite projects ever was over a decade ago working on the website and server-side functionality for the networked multiplayer OS X Tetris clone Quinn[0].
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110805131134/http://www.simonh...
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#3Nice! That was surprisingly detailed.
For documentary fans, this follows some of the best Tetris players in the world: http://watch.ecstasyoforder.com/
Interesting to see how they play and practice, the terminology ("drought"), etc.
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#4For a more detailed history, Gaming Historian did a great video earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fQtxKmgJC8
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#5Steve Wozniak looks like he's having so much fun in that picture. I wonder what the Tetris effect[0] looks like after playing on a building?
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#6The best tetris experience is in the old Dos Navigator after pressing alt+f9 with its clever scoring:
https://archive.org/details/DOSNavigator_1020
which is actualy open sourced at: http://www.dnosp.com
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#7It seems as though most of the links in the examples of other sorts of tetris are broken
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#8In Jackrabbit, the very cool retro-dystopian flick, scavenged (but potentially valuable) hardware is referred to as "tetris." Nice touch I thought...
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#9I am surprised that the site does not mention the From Nand To Tetris course [1] and philosophy.
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#10I am surprised that the site does not mention the From Nand To Tetris course [1] and philosophy. [1] https://www.nand2tetris.org/
The first thing that clicked in my mind.