tetris

I, like most people, had read that war these days was a much more remote, point n’ click instant death affair rather than the cheek by jowl, technicolour horror of hand to hand combat, but I’m pretty sure that training an Army on match-three and tetris is only going to be of benefit to the new generation of recruits.

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I, like most people, had read that war these days was a much more remote, point n’ click instant death affair rather than the cheek by jowl, technicolour horror of hand to hand combat, but I’m pretty sure that training an Army on match-three and tetris is only going to be of benefit to the new generation of recruits.

Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » You know Casual Games are big when… 2006

I do think you are conflating two sorts of games - games like tetris, that is a simple standalone game, and games like Animal Crossing, Nintendogs, etc that have short bursts of play in the context of a long game.

Towards a Casual RPG Greg Tannahill 2006

In game two, being an X level tailr might require solving a visual puzzle involving a loom with some kind of tetris-like warp-and-weft activity going on in real time.

Yeah, not so much 2006

I'm pretty sure I was playing "motocross maniacs" but I may have been playing "tetris" ... doesn't matter.

1UP RSS feed 2009

I mean seriously, look at that incredible tetris scene .... and the paddle-bridge destruction scene ... and I could keep going. johnbajuice

VOTD: PIXELS: Retro Gamers | /Film 2010

The inventor of tetris was paid nothing for each copy of tetris distributed.

Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010

The inventor of tetris was paid nothing for each copy of tetris distributed.

Matthew Yglesias » The Futile Struggle Against Free Content 2010

Mara sez, "My friend recently made these chainmail tetris blocks."

Boing Boing 2009

It's more addictive than tetris. - keyan (Reply to this) (5 comments) - (Post a new comment)

julieandrews: CoverGuess on LibraryThing julieandrews 2010

While the Tetris effect may have started out with a phenomenon identified from heavy video game use, the Tetris effect is now used to describe instances when people devote so much time and attention to something that it begins to dominate and alter their thoughts, perceptions and dreams.

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