So, I've been in the US with work this week and on some British Airways flights (and I assume some other airlines), you're able to play "In Flight Tetris" on the in built entertainment system. On the way out, I had a few goes at the "Ultra" mode - score as many points within 2 minutes, and took the first place on the leaderboard. For the 40 lines mode, I was only just able to crack the top 4 with something like 1:46, which I realise isn't a great time in itself,and the in flight controls are really twitchy. Most of the top 40 times were around the 1:40-50 mark, but the top two places where something like: Alex - 1:26 <Can't remember the name> - 1:10 So essentially, anyone on these forums travel LON-LAX and responsible for those times? If so, pat yourselves on the back, I don't know how you managed it with those controls
Hah! I was playing this a little under a month ago on an ANA flight to japan (unfortunately, didn't remember where the TGM machines were this time and didn't really have much time to go play anyways). I got the top 40 lines time but didn't bother with anything else. Name input was DDRKirbyISQ, I'm sure, but most likely a different leaderboard...
Aha, I caught the return flight yesterday and saw that the scoreboards were different, but the same two names (the first of which I've completely forgotten again, should've pictured it but I was half asleep) were at the top of the leaderboard, it looks like the 1:10 <someone> and 1:26 <Alex> may be default? May be merit in a high score thread, depending on how often people encounter this version I've only seen it on long haul flights to the US/Canada and Japan, but I'm guessing it's reasonably common
I saw Alex as first place for all the scores, except for 40 lines which someone managed to get a glitched time or cheat, like 17 seconds!! But yeah , I'm 99% sure Alex is Kitaru, one of the world's best Tetris players, I doubt anyone would knock him off the leaderboards quickly, as I said he's top as of today heading to Taipei from Vancouver
<Alex> could also be Alex Ong (Xael) or Alex Baez (Zero_T). Both people, except kitaru, cleared 40 lines in less than 30 seconds. How is playing Tetris on an airplane? Is the airplane super shaky?
