Craig's Blog of Destiny

Today I’m recognizing the 25th Anniversary of my favorite hand held electronic game: Tetris.  I haven’t been playing Tetris 25 years, but I sure hope to still be playing 25 years from now.  Some people have books in their bathroom – (“say, that would make a great bathroom book”), or even The Readers Digest.  Not me, I have a GameBoy with Tetris in it.  And have had it in there for many, many years.  There are other games in there for my GameBoy, but none are played as much as my Tetris is.  On my current version of the game (for the GameBoy Color) I’ve eliminated a little over 500,000 lines.  Literally.  I should exceed a million lines sometime in the year 2015.  Don’t laugh, that’s only about 225 lines a day, and I easily do 200 lines during my daily morning trip to the bathroom.  My current high score for a Marathon game is 4,869,808.  My goal is to have a 5,000,000 point game.  Of course, it will take a game paused and continued over several trips to the bathroom.  I’ve done the 40 Lines game (at level 9 and the 5 high setting) in one minute and thirty-four seconds.  Twice.  My third quickest time is 1:35. 

I do need to mention the familiar music that comes along with the Tetris game.  Some time ago Ashley posted on her Tetris experience and the theme music.  I was a little confused by that, as I realized that I never play the game with the music on.  I always play “Tetris Muted.”  I believe that’s what helps to keep me sane – to the degree that I’ve stayed sane.

I’m a big Tetris fan.  I really don’t see a need for any other hand held game.

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In honor of the Tetris 25th Anniversary I’d like everyone to enjoy one of my favorite YouTube videos: