The game that followed was the longest Tetris game I ever played; I couldn't begin to estimate the time it lasted, but by the time it was over, I had amassed over 1,000 lines. I could have paused the game and turned the system off, but I didn't want to risk failure when I came back to zippy level-30 gameplay. At the same time, I was tired.
This shirt from Huzzah Goods reminded me of that night. Even if you haven't spent hours and hours battling Tetris for sleep time, Tetris dreams are probably a fairly common experience. It's a really cute shirt too.
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9-24-2007 @ 2:59PM
pas said...
That reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lQ5smMZOsA
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9-24-2007 @ 3:01PM
fgsfds said...
How much did Huzzah Goods pay you for this
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9-24-2007 @ 3:03PM
Edge said...
I have seen DDR arrows, Puzzle Fighter blocks, and Hexic hexes in my dreams. But never Tetris, oddly enough.
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9-24-2007 @ 3:05PM
JC Fletcher said...
You got me, pas! The ONE TIME I ever write about a commercial product.
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9-24-2007 @ 3:11PM
THRILLHO said...
pretty cool shirt, but i've always thought this one summed up my playing of tetris more...
http://www.bustedtees.com/shirt/shithappens/male
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9-24-2007 @ 3:17PM
JKAntwon said...
wow, many nights were spent this way...
Geek to the core!
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9-24-2007 @ 3:41PM
RupeeClock said...
Get this, that's actually something called Tetris Effect, no joke!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
Playing Tetris for hours on end and dreaming or thinking about tetris is called Tetris Effect, awesome huh?
I LOVED Tetris DX btw, to this day I still play it on my DS using a flash cart and emulator, the gameplay rocks, the engine rocks, and being able to save games was a killer feature.
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9-24-2007 @ 4:19PM
Nushio (NDF - Blue) said...
I borrowed PPL and Tetris DS from a neighbor, and I was playing Tetris endlessly at 2am in the morning (I never could hit the 200 lines!), when I shut my eyes, all I saw where tiny blocks falling from the sky...
Damned tetris effect. I want my Mario Bros dreams back!
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9-24-2007 @ 4:22PM
Pizza Pasta said...
My freshman year of college was spent playing Tetris on a friends top-loading NES.
I played so much that when I would look at things such as buildings, furniture or even items at the dinner table I would try to think how they would fit each other.
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9-24-2007 @ 4:44PM
JC Fletcher said...
Where and when did you go to college, Pizza Pasta? I mean, I use my real name here online, so you'd know, but I sure did bring my toploading NES to college and let a bunch of people play Tetris.
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9-24-2007 @ 5:11PM
Orville the Unfathomable Time Walrus said...
I could have sworn that I had somehow accidentally laser-etched tetris blocks on my retinas after a multi-hour session of V-Tetris on the Virtual Boy once. Never dreamed about it, but I certainly saw it when I was awake.
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9-24-2007 @ 5:51PM
Matthew Hilario said...
wow. i thought i was the only one who had tetris dreams! tetris attack (planet puzzle league) dreams, super collapse 2 dreams. and unfortunately world of warcraft dreams.
i had no idea tetris effect existed!
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9-24-2007 @ 6:37PM
Matdredalia said...
*grins* And here I thought I was the only newb that dreamed of falling Tetris blocks in my sleep.
I gotta' get this shirt.....buahah, I must document the existence of the Tetris Effect in my life! (I'm still laughing at the fact that there is actually something called the Tetris Effect).
And on another note:
fgsfds - why does it matter? It pertains to DS-goodness, and it's a kick-arse shirt. They're allowed to blog commercial products, I mean...after all, what are games? =P
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9-25-2007 @ 12:07AM
jesus_bon_jovi said...
I never had the Tetris Effect but i did have the Meteos Effect to the point where every time i would close my eyes (even blink sometimes) i would see blocks and would be coming up with strategies. Very strange.
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9-27-2007 @ 4:37AM
DAGO said...
I drew a comic about this a few weeks ago.
http://lifeofdago.blogspot.com/
forget about the bi-weekly thing, I never have time to update the blog even if I have a lot of near-finished comics, heh.
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