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Tetris: Most Popular Time Waster of the 90s

Tetris is probably the most popular game in the 90s — and you wouldn’t believe it has been 25 years since it was invented (designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in June 6, 1984).

Back then, everyone was playing Tetris from my 60-year old grandmother to my 6 year-old cousins. Tetris was so simple yet so addictive. The game was everywhere, from Gameboy to PC, and those cheap handheld versions that feature 300-in-1 ways to play Tetris (was it a knockoff called Bricks or Brick Games?).

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And up to today, the game is still alive and being played by many. Will all the technology in gaming that we have lately, I think Tetris can still be re-invented (most probably for the Nintendo Wii).

Anybody played any Tetris lately?

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

27 Responses

  1. Avatar for Britteny Karpf Britteny Karpf says:

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  2. Avatar for Selma Kemna Selma Kemna says:

    Good post however I was wondering if you could write a litte more on this subject? I’d be very thankful if you could elaborate a little bit further. Appreciate it!

  3. Avatar for Chris Chris says:

    my mom and i still play this game… actually this is our bonding moment especially when we try to beat whoever has the high score

  4. Avatar for chxo chxo says:

    I have a tetris in my psp… ^^ playing it every night before going to sleep ^^

  5. Avatar for Weblogger| CarloBlogg Online Weblogger| CarloBlogg Online says:

    I have a similar post on my blog, pero about Tetris Effect. Diba anniversary ng Tetris ngaun? Dunno, bka mali ako haha :D

  6. Avatar for Pedro Pedro says:

    i have it on my DS…

  7. Avatar for R R says:

    Thanks to the Tetris effect, I’ve had an extremely profitable career as a barker for more than a decade by visualizing passengers in a crowded jeepney as colorful geometric shapes.

  8. Avatar for Dacx Dacx says:

    i remember sa eat bulaga may pa-contest ang pop cola yung brick the record ata yun. trinay ko sumali kaso ang lulupit ng mga sumasali. i still play it sa touch kasi yun yung pinakasimple at nakakrelax na game.

  9. Avatar for Vidar Vidar says:

    OT: I saw you yesterday at QTV-11 (Ang Pinaka). Hehe

  10. Avatar for Darren Darren says:

    can’t agree no more!!!

  11. Avatar for JohnLloy JohnLloy says:

    nakipag away ako dahil dito ahaha

  12. Avatar for mish mish says:

    My favorites in the 90s were Wolfenstein 3d, Doom and Quake I and II, and Descent? Oh, and 3D chess of course; de rigueur for geeksters. I didn’t like Tetris much.

  13. Avatar for Gwapito Gwapito says:

    That game can probably be found on Macs.

  14. Avatar for a.cantos a.cantos says:

    never played it for a while but I still remember the cheat… :)

  15. Avatar for Jhay Jhay says:

    Ah the nostalgia of playing this game really does bring back good memories!

  16. Avatar for whaâ„¢ whaâ„¢ says:

    waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…. i admit na addict din ako sa TETRIS when i was still in ELEMENTARY YEARS. an up to now i also play TETRIS during my spare time

  17. Avatar for Oni Oni says:

    lol tandaan ko yan dati tetris lang ginawagawa ko pang palipas oras dahil sa rotating brownout

  18. Avatar for Hamilton Chua Hamilton Chua says:

    Nope, I have the internet to waste time on now :-)

  19. Avatar for James Palar James Palar says:

    yeah, i played it many times this week

  20. Avatar for Live Dito Live Dito says:

    i remember bringing my brickgame with me everywhere i go.

  21. Avatar for Kelvin Servigon Kelvin Servigon says:

    I’m a tetris fan. grabe, addicting nga tlga tong laro na to…

  22. Avatar for Jam. Jam. says:

    Still addicted to it. I’ve been playing that in our telephone, since it has a tetris game

  23. Avatar for The Philippine Love & Relationships Forum The Philippine Love & Relationships Forum says:

    yan yung unang cause ng eye strain at carpal tunnel he he.

  24. Avatar for deuts deuts says:

    Naalala ko pa dati nagagalit ang Filipino teacher namin sa High School. Kc bakit daw magpapa-raffle, e brick game ang premyo. E nagiging dahilan na ang brick game ng mga sakuna sa Iloilo City. Meron kasing naglalaro habang tumatawid sa kalsada. Hahahaha Kahit hindi pa masyado matrapik nuon ang Iloilo City.

    Na-imagine mo ba un. Pano n lng ngaun? Hindi lng habang tumatawid – nagti-text. Pati ung nagmamaneho ng kotse nagti-text.

  25. Avatar for Andre Marcelo-Tanner Andre Marcelo-Tanner says:

    gameboy :) played a competition for this once, only got so far.

  26. Avatar for Beautiful Pinays & Asians on Friendster Beautiful Pinays & Asians on Friendster says:

    nung high school ako addict din ako diyan. brick game tawag natin diyan di ba?

  27. Avatar for alejojoe alejojoe says:

    my old “brick game” is 8888-in-1. yes its 8,888 — still resides on my “baul” of collections. i bought it for P550 when i was in high school. now that you mentioned it, i’ll take a hit on it later this afternoon.

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