Last evening we had the privilege of traveling to State College to perform our new material. During the 3 hour trip, Megan and Joe pulled out a head lamp and a game boy and proceeded to play Tetris. That’s right, you can’t get much more old-school than playing Tetris on car trips, that is unless you have one of those Tiger hand-held LCD games (ah, the memories).
While we were waiting for our ears to pop from the elevation changes on the trip, we discussed the lore behind the game of Tetris. Megan thought that Tetris was based on some sort of physical game; I scoffed at her. Joe claimed that you could actually win at Tetris; I said, “Not possible.” Personally, I have never done it, so I stand firmly on the opinion that you can’t ever win Tetris. Joe gave detailed descriptions of what it was like when you won and from what he says, there are dancing Russian girls and a space shuttle. I don’t believe it.
One thing you must know about Joe is he is a josher. He will say absurd things that sound true with a straight face to try and dupe the gullible in his presence. Joe does this so often that it’s hard to tell when he’s telling you a factiod that is actually true.
So, in light of this evidence, should I believe him, or stand stubbornly on my initial opinion that you can’t win at Tetris?
A super huge thanks to Jesse, Eric, and Shane from Roustabout. We had a great time playing and look forward to coming back soon! Maybe by then I will have played enough Tetris to win or prove Joe wrong!
November 9th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Dancing Ruskie women and a space shuttle indeed. I have seen them myself. The space shuttle has missing tiles and the women, missing teeth. As one who has beaten Tetris I can put the lie to Megan’s claim that Tetris is a physical game. Its origin is in no way physical and only the truly enlightened can see the prize. Excuse me while I put Murine into my third eye.
November 18th, 2007 at 5:57 pm
Megan might be right after all…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=84_QL1kEmH4
November 18th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
Ben,
That’s the funniest tetris related thing I’ve seen in a while, aside from Joe’s video. And I ain’t joshin’ you!
November 21st, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Look. There are two modes to tetris. In the lamer mode one has to get some set amount of lines (I think it was around 25). Depending on the difficulty level (i.e. speed 1-9) and the height of the blocks at the start, you will get some sort of celebration involving Russian girls and space ships.
The sweeter mode is infinite. You eliminate lines continuously, the speed increasing manically every 10 lines. This version you cannot win at. You just degenerate into a state of frantic hysteria as the speed becomes more than your sore little thumbs can handle. In this mode, you can always seek to beat your personal best line count, braggging to your friends that you got to like 252 lines (that’s my personal best, I recall, plus or minus a couple).