You can tell tetris was invented in the Soviet union because it was good, all about perpetually building, and still in use 40 years later.

If ypu want 2 good tetris videos check out The History of Tetris World Records & A 15 Year Old Just Broke Every Tetris World Record

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whaaats the deal with tetris??? am i right???

suddenly a horizontal I-piece fast drops from the top of the stage space, flattening jerry seinfeld and squeezing his organs fluids and assorted viscera out in a fan of blood and gore, coating the front row (splash zone!)

I rebuilt Tetris in Godot piece by piece and of all of the classic arcade games that I've programmed it was by far the most demanding game. the specific randomization rules (did you know that the original used different randomization from the one on the Nintendo which uses different randomization from what's standard now? I do!), sliding, T spin detection, copying score tables and combo tables, input buffering and DAS and so many more little things that I've forgotten about, it was a nightmare but it taught me a lot.

Partly what makes it so difficult is that there's so much expectation around Tetris that there isn't around, say, Space Invaders. if you just made a straight one-to-one recreation of the original Electronika version people would say that it is barely functional and sucks. so much of the game that we consider Tetris is essentially patches that have been applied to the base game over the past several decades and it's many many re-releases.

it's one of the purest expressions of "video game", I absolutely love it. 10/10.

From each shape according to its ability, to each shape according to its needs

Tetris is such a minimalist form of video game that accommodates a diversity of player choices. It's also iconic of a specific time and yet remains quite timeless despite that. I really like using "Tetris" as a verb to describe things like packing for a trip or arranging furniture, etc.

My spouse and I play tetris as a way to talk through things. It puts you into the perfect flow state for that, as it engages all the fidgety energy of your mind, clearing the way for conversation. I don't practice or try to git gud at Tetris, because that's not the point for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect

Despite what hexbears would like to believe, the human brain is similar to an autocomplete function and Tetris pushes most of the buttons necessary to flood out aspects of our short term memory.

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-28-tetris-used-prevent-post-traumatic-stress-symptoms

i don't know but if you haven't seen it you should go find the music video for andrew lloyd webber's tetris song