I've gotten to know some of you guys on a fairly basic level through this forum and blockstats chat. How about a little more substance? As some of you may have found out from the news story where we auctioned the name of our baby (which sold to a multimillionaire businessman who decided to just let us name her what we want AND keep the money), my name is Craig Sullivan. I'm 30 years old and married with a 2.5 year-old daughter and a baby girl due Sept 20th. My wife, Heidi, is a middle school Language Arts teacher and we own a Marble Slab Creamery. We live in a suburb of of Tampa, FL. I've been playing GB Tetris since it came out, but that was really the only Tetris I played with any amount of fervor until TDS was released. I played both NES versions of Tetris back when they were new and I own N64 Tetris, but I got it after TDS and I've never gotten into it. I had always dreamed of readily-accessible multiplayer Tetris, and I find TDS to be mosty satisfying. Perhaps one day I'll get around to playing TGM/Heboris. I work a lot (~80-100 hrs/week) but I almost always bring my DS and WiFi adapter to work to play TDS there. It's good to be king. Just to throw out a little more about me, here are some things I like: Bands: Bad Religion, Tool, Zeppelin, Faith No More, Smashing Pumpkins Movies: The Big Lebowski, Memento, American Beauty, Good Will Hunting, The Usual Suspects, Monsters Inc. Sports: Hockey (go Lightning!) Video Games: Katamari Damacy/We Love Katamari, Classic NES games like Punch Out/Metroid/Final Fantasy/Dragon Warrior/Maniac Mansion just to name a few. I also spent a very unhealhy amount of time playing Diablo 2 (hardcore) back in its hayday. -Sully out
Nice Idea Sully. (Or is it? Only knowing people by their screen names kinda keeps things impartial.) Cool about the baby. It could have been called IBM or Fox or something stupid. Work In Progress: My name is Chris and I'm 16. Like Phydeaux, my Tetris history stretches back to the Game Boy, and then there is an almighty gap until TDS, only filled by brief spells of playing a downloaded fangame on Neave.com. In case any of you guys haven't realised, I live in sunny(!) England near the great city of Liverpool. The 'LFC' stands for the basis of my religion, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_FC">Liverpool Football (as in Soccer) Club</a>. Baiscally my life is devoted to Tetris, music (and my guitar) and football. Bands: Muse, Feeder, Oasis, The Who, Green Day, Led Zep, GNR, Ash (Mixed bag really). Movies: LOTR, The Shawshank Redemption, Apocalypse Now, The Matrix. Sports/Hobbies: Football (I refuse to call it 'soccer'), My Guitar(s), Video Games: We Love Katamari (The only K. Damacy game released in Europe), Tetris [duh!], MP:H, Smash Bros, Gran Turismo, Red Faction, Timesplitters. I also play the original Unreal Tournament online now and again.
Good on ya for the baby naming. Most people wouldn't have the chutzpah to get out there and attempt that for fear of what society thinks. Thankfully it's resulted in a way where it helps your family. Any info you want on me is scarily available through a couple of page turns in Google, but my name is Jonathon and I've been going by the name Phydeaux in real life at a personal/impersonal and professionally through entertainment for several years now. I've done a bloody lot of things ranging from radio D.J. work, voice-over work, IT consulting, sales of furniture, appliances and cell phones, I've worked in a RadioShack, video production, I went into college wanting to do something in the field of Atmospheric Science, wound up undergraduating at a different college with a degree in MIS, and I carry the credentials where if someone gets uppity I can make them address me as "Reverend Phydeaux/Jonathon", and have worked for about 3 years at a youth center I helped open and build up until a few months ago when I got sick of the drama I'd get from adults that I'd have to work with but had no ability to rope them in when they would misbehave or anyone in authority over them. So while I'm still a bit of a localized celebrity where everyone seems to know my name, I'm also a bit of a derelict since a few key groups have made accusations attacking my character regarding me as some sort of pedophile, so it's a joke I take with me, though these simple mountain folk don't seem to understand the concept of "satire". That's one hell of a nutshell, eh? I also was a GameBoy Tetris player even though there were spats of it here and there with Tetris on my old, old 286 PC I had when I was younger. I hadn't played any other version really until TDS, because the whole Wi-Fi idea excited me. I still love it despite it's many flaws. I drool over watching people play all the variations of TGM and want to build an arcade cabinet of my own with that circuitry, but someday, someday. Bands: Five Iron Frenzy, Barenaked Ladies, Phish, Hayseed Dixie, John Reuben, Larry Norman Movies: Lon: The Professional, Kill Bill, Serenity, End of Evangelion TV Shows: Firefly, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, FLCL, Detective Conan Sports: Skateboarding is probably all I care to follow. Video Games: Unreal Tournament, HaloPC, Mario Kart in all it's forms, Star Fox in all it's forms except for "Adventures" which isn't even a real Star Fox game (and I can say this officially because Command isn't out yet), and what drug me into the GameCube and back to Nintendo; Super Smash Bros. Melee.
Could you imagine if someone from the opensource community won the auction? Name your baby Firefox! Name your baby Gimp!
Except "Fox" is close to sounding like a real name. IBM Mulder? Stupid. Fox Mulder? Not stupid. Neither is "Espn", a form of the name "Espen" meaning "Bear of the Gods". (ObTopic: While looking up Tetris Management Group, I found that Espen Andersen has compared IS management to Tetris.) N-Blox, right? I assume you're not affiliated with the pet supply store, right? Anyway, I'm willing to share more than you asked for. There are a few Tetris tidbits, but most of it is centered around the lead-up to a huge Balloon Fight punch-line for some contest in the DDR scene: life story (for best results, download and read in notepad) about balloon fever hear balloon fever I went through at least the following block puzzle game phases: Tetris (NES) Tetris (G Dr. Mario Yoshi (briefly; it sucked) Yoshi's Cookie Super Scope 6 Blastris A/B Tetris 2 Columns (briefly; the Game Gear wasn't mine) Kirby's Avalanche Wario's Woods Zoop Klax Bust-A-Move Insane Game (TI-83 variant of SameGame) Finally getting around to writing a prototype Tetris clone on my TI-83 during downtime. I port it to QBasic, adding Bombliss style sticky gravity. I clone a whole bunch of other falling block games in QBasic; unfortunately those are lost to time by now. I learn C and port my text based Tetris clone. I learn the Allegro library and add graphics, resulting in freepuzzlearena's Tetanus module. The New Tetris Tetripz Wanting a way to play something like Tetripz with better control, cross-platform compatibility, and free software, I borrow a mode 7 style engine from an aborted attempt at a kart racing game and make TOD for PC. Tetris Worlds (GBA) (briefly; I couldn't figure out SRS at the time, plus the display was rawther laggy) Disgusted with TW, I join the GBA homebrew scene and port TOD to GBA. "Tetris Japan Finals", the popular name for the TGM2+ Death_800 video. I add a poor simulation of death mode to TOD for GBA. Tetramino for NES because free software > piracy. Based mostly on publicly available Lumines videos, I make Luminesweeper. Part of this includes fine-tuning of game rules based on only 15 minutes (!) of play in the only shop in town that has a PSP demo unit. Tetris DS, and a realization that SRS is here to stay. I fight my way to 6200 in the first week. I discover TetrisConcept.com through the Tetris DS Systems Guide posted to GameFAQs. I learn about how TGM really works, including ARE, DAS pre-charging, initial actions, and the like, and I make Lockjaw as an illustration of 1. what is presented on Tetriswiki and 2. my Tetris DS frustrations (as exaggerated in its Vs. with Items mode).
@ Sully: You're on teevee! ______________________ Short introduction of myself: My name's Greg(ory) Choong, 21, lives in the city of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. Currently working and have no interested in studying whatsoever, and playing games is what I do as a past-time. I claim myself as hardcore as a gamer, consoles, computers, I play all of them. Except that I don't own them. Crap CPU for crap games, DS(two, one new noble pink DSlite). Currently spending alot of time in Diablo 2 (anyone wants to go for monster bashing?) and haven't been playing much TEtris recently. My tetris history dates back in the NES, and GB days. My favourite was NES co-op mode, which is why I like TGM2 very much. I play Tetrinet years back for awhile, and now I've turned full tetris addict after TDS and TGM. I'm also suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, and that's also what's stopping me from playing Tetris(TGM especially). Band/Music: All, but likes House, Progressive, Dark, Jungle, etc. etc Movies: Rob Schneider/Adam Sandler movies, Saw I/II, Fight Club, Sixth Sense, (and the likes) Sports: Table-tennis, soccer Games: FPS, third-person-shooters, Enemy Territory, Diablo 2, Tetris, everything
Hi, Im a 16 year-old male living in Ontario (that's in Canada). I like reading and science and math and tetris. I'm a fervent atheist and I hold some unorthodox politaical views too. That's all really. You can go see my blog at fringfring.spaces.live.com
i'm nicholas. i live in louisiana. i'm a student at a local university, and i work at a couple of different businesses doing various things. i drink too many drinks which contain caffeine. i play an obscene amount of tetris daily, and have done so for a very extended time period (a few large breaks inbetween). i don't really know what i started with exactly, or the course of games i took. maybe something like pc, gb, gbc, tnt, pc, other tnt, more pc (like tnet), worlds (specifically xbox live), dlx, and then tds-- with a bunch shoved inbetween those. i play other games, but i always come back to tetris. once you go tetris, you never go back... tris. i made a website over a year ago, which i post stuff on time to time... tepples, i like how you have your life story just off-hand like that. btw, that's interesting how you tried shortening basic english. i originally wrote my tds guide in ogden's basic and e-prime (i may've messed up in later versions). also, congratulations sully to you and your wife on having a baby. (should we expect a "TC-childprodigy"?)
the details of my life are quite...inconsequential...... very well, where do i begin? my name is steve, i'm 27 and i am currently in line to finish a mechanical engineering degree from UMaine. one course to go this coming fall semester and it will be official. i grew up in maine, and still live here, but have had a couple stints in massachusetts and vermont. i have 2 older brothers, ages 33 and 38. i'm a huge boston red sox fan, and other interests include disc golf, tennis, playing guitar, drums, reading, cruciverbalism, pondering the mysteries of life and the universe, and chilling out in the serenity of maine, especially in wooded areas and at the lake where my family has a summer home. my tetris roots date back to 1989 with the nintendo version on NES. shortly after that, i got the gameboy from a local surplus/salvage chain, which was like striking gold at the time--if i remember right it was about $60 for the handheld, and was bundled with tetris of course. i've never been amazing, but always had a knack for building decent stacks. a good friend of mine was also a great tetris player and we have had(and still do) an ongoing type-A high-score contest. he currently owns our title with somewhere in the low 700k's and mine stands at 636k. my only claim over him is having made it to level 29 (multiple times) where he has not once. got into the new tetris when that came out, and then most recently bought TDS and the DSlite. i'm trying to get him to get one so we can battle over the network as he lives in california, and i'm still in maine. i'll leave you with the ever-popular listing of stuff:
Tepples, when I played the neave.com game it wasn't called n-blox. It seems the owner of that site got into major trouble with his clones of Tetris, Pac-man, Asteroids and Space Invaders because they have all now been withdrawn from the site or have had the name altered.
My name is Hoang, I'm 17 and, as Caithness described, like some 2channer, I lack confidence in my english, french being my mother tongue... but I try to overcome my fear and try to post from time to time ! (still, I can't post anything in english without double-checking words in my dictionnary and using over-complicated construction that I surely won't use in french... ohwell). My first contact with Tetris was on a Macintosh (Spectrum Holobyte's version) at the age of 5 (maybe 6). I remember having played the a friend's Gameboy port of Tetris while I was spending an holiday in USA, and also having received a GB, but I don't remember having Tetris in my collection. Weird. Perhaps my parents bought a GB bundled with something else than Tetris ? I don't know. Anyway, I then had nearly no contact with Tetris until I reached ~14 and began to crawl in the web, as the geeky child I was. (the acquisition of a broadband connection played a role, for sure ). Internet being an huge place full of useless stuff, I saw from time to time some interesting Tetris stuff (Zetrix, MSN6 Custom Game's Tetris, a Tribute to Tetris, tetriNet and of course, "Tetris Japan Finals" video), but didn't gave them much attention. I bought TDS on May on a compulsive purchase and immediatly liked it. One month after, I discovered caffeine's video of T-Spin Triples, and so added TC in my bookmarks . Music: nothing in particular, with a little preference for electronic music (Amon Tobin, Faskil), Jazz and Yoko Kanno's works. Can't bear rap music (especially french rap) though. And vietnamese pop. Movies: LotR trilogy, Lost in Translation, Princess Mononoke, the Godfather Trilogy TV Show: CSI (Las Vegas, Miami sucks), Cowboy Bebop (best anime ever) Sports: Karate Video Games: Anything Bioware related (Baldur's Gate Series, Neverwinter Nights, KotOR), Rez, DDR/Stepmania and Guitar Hero/Freaks when I got the occasion to play them, Deus Ex, Psychonauts, and that little russian game, uh... Tertis I think.
The illustrious cosmonaut is Logan who is from the very upper class town of Neenah, WI (about 30 min south of Green Bay). Early in his teens cosmonaut was a fairly successful junior ski-racer. Looking to stay in shape over the summers he took up biking and running and cosmonaut became obsessive about fitness. Eventually he would forgo ski racing and move on to triathlons and marathons where he was one of the more prominent junior triathletes in the U.S. At 18 he left wisconsin to study film and african-american studies at the University of Colorado where he promptly forgot about all of his educational pursuits, had a relapse, and became a ski-bum. After a year of skiing and traveling his funding ran low so he retreated to wisconsin to attend the Univeristy of Wisconsin at Green Bay, majoring in Chemistry and Human Biology. At the same time he and a partner purchased the Blue Moon Coffee Co. where he was to be the silent partner and his partner was to manage the business. One year later and thousands of dollars of debt later (after his partner squandered all the revenue on weed and clothes) he took over as sole proprietor to fix the business and prevent filing for bankruptcy. At 24 cosmonaut is now 3 classes away from his degrees and has rescued his shop from bankruptcy. He owns two canon xl2 cameras that he is currently using to produce two independent films and that he occasionally uses to shoot weddings and other event videography. He plans to sell his coffee shop in november to finish his degrees and go to med school. He has recently revived his obsessive fitness goals and plans to complete an ironman next spring. Academically his research is primarily scientific and focuses on the effects of PCB (polychloro biphenols -- which are bi products of paper and pulp processing) on pregnant women. Most of his academic pursuits are aimed at women's health, specifically with hormonal regulation and birth control. He also has been researching the topic of "love" for the past several years and is authoring a journal article on it. His only video game experience is as such: NES from 1988-1992 mostly playing tetris and tecmo superbowl. After a 10 year hiatus he got an Arkanoid videogame in his coffee shop that he played obsessively and considers himself one of the top 5 arkanoid players in the world (he can beat the game -- levels 1 - 32 without losing once). After acquiring a DS in march he began playing tetris obsessively in the down-time at his coffee shop. He currently has 4650 4p wins on two DS's. edit: also, if you want to know more or if you want to be my friend you can go to: http://www.myspace.com/bluemooncoffeeco <a href="http://www.myspace.com/bluemooncoffeeco">myspace.com/bluemoon</a> and while i'm at it: i usually drink a bottle of wine a day. my favorite food is asparagus. i am ridiculously into fireworks and throw a $2000 show every year. i'm a bit obsessed with Toyota and Lexus. i mostly only wear black t-shirts and khaki colored pants.
Obviously from my screen name, my name in real life is Josh. I just recently turned 16 less than a month ago. I've been gaming ever since I can remember. My parents even told me I beat Super Mario Bros. at the age of 3, but I have no recollection of that. I happen to be really proud of a Mario kart: Double Dash tournament I competed in at my local Gamecrazy, in which I came in first and won a Nintendo sweatshirt which I wear quite often. I've been to quite a few different schools in my lifetime, including 3 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 2 high schools. Life has been all right for me so far... give or take a few memories. Believe it or not, my first Tetris experience is actually Tetris DS. When I first got it, I played EXACTLY like the n00bs you see on wi-fi with a 4,000 or less rating(this was back in April). Over long sessions of training, staying up many nights to try and beat Standard LV 5, and many, many friend games, I've made my way up to the top 1,000 players in all of TDS and earned respect from many players. It blows my mind when I think about it, but I guess that's why they say practice makes perfect. For someone who was skeptical about buying Tetris at first, I think I can honestly say Tetris DS is my favorite game ever. It was well worth the $30 I spent on it. Currently I'm a Junior in high school and on track to graduate. I'm fluent in english and also speak quite a bit of spanish. In my free time, I like to game, play basketball, and teach myself computer skills.
My name is brandon, i'm 14 (gasp i think i'm the youngest one here). i'm a student (big surprise). i happen to have a think for math, which explains the school i go to. i'm going to take pre-calculus this year. In my spare time i program, play my guitars (acoustic, electric, and bass guitar), make little art, and play tetris. I suggest you check out my deviant art page http://cdsboy.deviantart.com . My first time playing tetris was on my gameboy color, playing tetris dx. I'm pretty sure my dad acualy bought that for himself and i just played it.
I'm Ben, 19 years old, and live in New Hampshire (USA). I don't post much around here (I'm not too much of a hardcore tetris player ). I'm not sure how I got into tetris - probably saw a video or something, but I wanted to be good. My tetris game is pretty rough, but I'm getting good at tetris catch. I will be a freshman in college this upcoming semester at a technical institute where I will be taking general studies. I will most likely lean toward computers though. I also work at Ruby Tuesday, a resturant chain. For activities, I like playing Catch mode , hanging out with friends, playing ultimate frisbee, vids, and doing computer stuff (programming and blogging). I used to play footbag (competitive hackysack, visit footbag.org for more info) but my knees arn't so great, long distance running, and I was into the rubiks cube for a bit, solving one in 90 seconds... I also like math, sciences, law, criminology, espionage, politics, that kind of stuff. I like action movies and listen to a lot of christian rock. Very messy post!
