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unusual facts about Tetris: The Grand Master


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For the Tetris game, see Tetris: The Grand Master.


Adsorption

The game of Tetris is a puzzle game in which blocks of 4 are adsorbed onto a surface during game play.

Alpine Racer 2

Alpine Racer 2, along with Tetris, was used by Harvard sleep scientist Robert Stickgold to study the relationship between learning and sleep.

Amstrad NC100

An upgraded version, the NC200, appeared in late 1993, featuring a 3.5" floppy disk drive able to read/write MS-DOS-formatted double density disks, 128 KB RAM, some extra software - most notably a spreadsheet and three Tetris-like games - and a larger, backlit screen.

Apple Bottoms

The term is referenced in various rap or hiphop songs, including Twista's "Overnight Celebrity", MC Jin's "36-24-36 (Applebottom Jeans)", DaCav5's "Tetris" and Flo Rida's Low.

Blocks That Matter

BTM heavily references the games Minecraft and Tetris through the main characters, in-game mechanics and concepts such as “Pajitnovian physics”.

Blokus Portable: Steambot Championship

Each player is given a pile of blocks that resemble Tetrads .

Blue Planet Software

Although it takes on the abbreviation of Japanese Tetris developer and publisher Bullet-Proof Software, Inc., Blue Planet Software is a separate company founded by Henk Rogers in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1996.

Dossun! Ganseki Battle

This game structure has similarities with Tetris, and the player has to beat the opponent in various medieval settings.

Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters

It recounts the development and rise of Tetris as one of the most-played video games of all-time, the role it has played in shaping the lives of the gamers it chronicles, the mystery surrounding the whereabouts of former Nintendo World Champion Thor Aackerlund, and the conception & execution of the first ever Classic Tetris World Championship by gaming enthusiast Robin Mihara.

The film integrates a fair amount of Tetris gameplay footage and strategy with the stories of the individual gamers and also features interviews with Tetris developer Alexey Pajitnov, Former Twin Galaxies Senior Referee Mr. Kelly R. Flewin, multi-platform champion gamer Chris Tang, and a special appearance by The Tetris Company CEO Henk Rogers.

Halloween on Franklin Street

Notable costumes from the 2008 celebration included the Joker from the popular 2008 Batman movie, The Dark Knight, and a Tetris-themed group costume.

I Wanna Be the Guy

IWBTG is made up of several stages split into many screens, which are mostly pastiches of Nintendo Entertainment System games, such as Tetris, Ghosts'n Goblins, The Legend of Zelda, Castlevania, Kirby, Mega Man and Metroid.

Lode Runner

Tetris designer Alexey Pajitnov claimed it to be his favorite puzzle game for many years.

Love Me or Hate Me

It features Lady Sovereign appearing in Tetris-style blocks, and acting out certain lyrics of the song.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack

For much of the early 1990s, the Gamesampler, a subset of the Entertainment Pack small enough to fit on a single high-density disk, was shipped as a free eleventh disk added to a ten-pack of Verbatim blank 3.5" microfloppy diskettes. Games on the sampler included Jezzball, Rodent's Revenge, Tetris, and Skifree. A "Best of" disk of several of the games was also available at times as a mail-in premium from Kellogg's cereals.

Microsoft Entertainment Pack: The Puzzle Collection

The creator of Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov, designed some of the games featured in the pack.

Mosaic: Tomb of Mystery

It is somewhat similar to Tetris (because you fit shapes together) and it is themed in Ancient Egypt.

Picopict

UGO Networks' Paul Furfari called it "pure retro love packaged in a clever puzzler", commenting that comparing it to Tetris is a "disservice" due to it putting "enough twist on the falling block formula to provide a stylish and full experience" as well as the inclusion of an NES theme and YMCK-made retro music.

Puzzle Strike: Bag of Chips

The objective of Puzzle Strike is similar to that of competitive puzzle games like Tetris or Puzzle Fighter.

Robert Stickgold

In one experiment, participants played the computer game Tetris for three days and reported dreaming about falling geometric shapes.

Rotohex

IGN gave Rotohex an 8/10, calling the game "one of those awesome 'zone out' matching puzzlers" which carries an "unbelievable addictiveness" in its gameplay that is "almost as addictive as Marathon Mode is in Tetris".

Siemens SX1

The three games which were bundled with the phone were Mozzies, which was awarded the title of best mobile game in 2003, Typegun, which was a game made for acquainting users to the keypad layout, and Sitris, a Tetris version with multiplayer support (via Bluetooth).

Skinput

The first public appearance was at Microsoft's TechFest 2010, where the recognition model was trained live on stage, during the presentation, followed by an interactive walkthrough of a simple mobile application with four modes: music player, email inbox, Tetris, and voice mail.

SolarStriker

The background music for Level 1 and Level 2 was used in the beginning of the Captain N: The Game Master episode, Trouble With Tetris, in a slightly altered form.

Something Old

He boasts about being able to pack Marshall and Lily's things "with Tetris-like precision."

Strong Arms of the Ma

Homer takes it and packs everything and everybody in the car in the style of a Tetris game.

Super Mario Land

Initially, Nintendo planned to package Super Mario Land with the Game Boy, but decided to package Tetris instead at the insistence of Henk Rogers, who convinced Nintendo of America head Minoru Arakawa that a Mario title would only sell the Game Boy to young boys instead of everyone.

Tetris effect

A study, conducted by Lynn Okagaki and Peter Frensch in 1994, showed that participants who played Tetris for twelve 30-minute sessions (with no previous experience of the game) did much better than the control group in both the paper-pencil test version of spatial skills as well as the computerized version.

The New Tetris

The New Tetris also features a multiplayer mode with up to four players and an ethnically themed electronic dance music soundtrack by Neil D. Voss, who also composed the award-winning music for Tetrisphere.

TI-85

Games such as Tetris and Boulder Dash are available, as are programs with more practical uses, such as versions of the periodic table.

Wordtris

Wordtris, stylized as WORDTЯIS, is a Tetris offshoot designed by Alexey Pajitnov and published by Spectrum Holobyte in 1991 for the IBM PC platform.


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