The useless yet funny Tetris-related things Thread

Unusual Tetris

• Tetris building
• Another Tetris Building (among other thing)
• Tetris Loto
• CHIP and PIN terminal Tetris
• Tetris Pillow
• Tetris Computer Virus
• Tetris Weightlifting

Tetris Objects

• Tetris Furniture
• Tetris Cube
• Tetris Necklace
• Tetris Magnet
• Tetris Shelves
• Tetris Tower 3D Board Game (don't use the third dimension as a gameplay feature, AFAIK)
• Fighting Tetris board game (another video)
• Play-TV Tetris
• Tetris Alarm Clock
• Tetris Cookies
• "Gameboy Addict 2" Messenger bag (art by Mlaka, french comic writer; comboutique, ships only in Europe)
  -> T-shirts
  • Nintendo official (and sadly, limited) Tetris T-shirt
  • "Put pieces Together to Make a Peace" (Threadless)
  • "Never Mind" (Way of the Rodent)
  • "I beat Tetris ! Whoo !" (PvP ; ThinkGeek)
  • "Tetris the Soviet Challenge" (art by drip ; comboutique, ships only in Europe)
  • A selection of Tetris themed T-Shirt (thanks Rosti)
  • More...

Art & Culture

• Human Tetris
• Crate Tetris
• Tetris Vandals
• Japanese One man Show Tetris sketch
• Valentine's Day Tetris Card
• Sugar stop-motion Tetris
• Official Tetris DS commercial
• Life and... life of a lonely L tetramino in the real world (12MB mpg video)
• sm (stop motion video, among others retro goodness)
  • The Simpsons Tetris Cameo
  • Tetris Honda Commercial
  • The Perry Bible Fellowship Tetris Strip
  • Maliki's Strip about Supermarket, cashier and Tetris (french comic)
  • Captain N -204- Trouble With Tetris (thanks matt_hatter83)
  Other
• Tetris DS 24h marathon (I can't read japanese, and I'm too lazy to babelfish the page. Could someone confirm that ?)
• 10 interesting facts about Tetris

People

Utada Hikaru, the japanese idol who love Tetris

• can play while laughing
• hitted 99999999 on TDS
• participated in a TDS event in Japan
• (is cute when she plays)

Alexe[y/i] Pa[j/zh]itnov / ??????? ????????, the man behind Tetris

• was interviewed (thanks caffeine)
• won a GDC (Game Developper Conference) Game Design Challenge (thanks caffeine)

Add your own !


(I gotta put this in the wiki someday)

 

woah...

 

Juste a little search on Kotaku and Joystiq, nothing colossal, really .

 

You already knew this I'm sure, but at the heart of every Tetris player lies a vandal and anarchist.


Thank you Petit Prince, I was tempted to make a similar topic. It's much nicer to have them all together.

 

Wow, there are actually a couple there I had never seen.


The pillows are pretty cool.


- Jono

 

lol!

i want the tetris weightlifting

 

Sorry to burst your bubble, but vandals don't actually like tetris that much-- photoshoppers do.

 

i seriously want that shirt. Petti Prince where can I order that?

 

Slight bump, but:


Selection Of Tetris T-Shirts

 

nice find!


i like the "Each time you clear a line, a Tetris piece goes to hell."


and the "I always loved the long ones" panties.

 

TETRIS BUILDING USELESS??


It 's a very great experience!!
The guys who have made that are respectable!!

 

Added. I like the addicted T-shirt.

Useless as many work of art

 

Any objection to me listing these links on blockstats?

 

No. It's a forum thread, after all.

 

GZ Presents A Conversation With Alexey Pajitnov


from that game designer's conference. wish we could've got some footage of his presentation.

 

I don't mean to disrespect the guy, but I've read complete transcripts from his past presentations and he didn't really say anything interesting.


Actually, thinking back, I think I read the actual powerpoint that was used for the presentation. He presented at least 2 years alongside Scott Kim, and they were available on his website. And still are, apparently:


http://www.scottkim.com/thinkinggames/index.html


Someone should start a "developer interviews" thread to cover interesting stuff like this.

 

i found this article about the game design contest. apparently the game designers had to make a game out of a cloth, needle, and thread. of course, alexey's game pwned everybody else's:

 

It appears that Mr. Pajitnov must have reinvented a game that I remember from the Apple II computer. It was called Bridge-It, and its BASIC source code appeared in Write Your Own Apple Games.

 

I'm pretty sure I've played that game on paper, or something very similar.

 

http://www.megagames.com/news/html/free ... tris.shtml


Description

Blazetris is a new game similar to popular Tetris.

It features new improved 3d graphics, and custom in-game music, but still retains the unique feel of the original game.


Minimum System Requirements:

Windows 98 and over, Processor 300 MHz, Memory 64MB RAM, 30 MB free HDD Space, Video Card with OpenGL 1.1 support, mouse and keyboard.


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Just found this when I was looking for free games, there also happens to be another in acid-play(another freeware site), sadly, I can't check it out cause I'm at work and I doubt my Riva TNT2 could run it.