Tetris

Wednesday, 21 March 2012


Tetris is a video game designed by the Russian, Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. The name tetris is derived from the Greek, tetra-four, because all of the game pieces have four segments. There are seven different tetriminos. A random sequence of tetriminos falls down and the player must manipulate these tetriminos in order to create a horizontal line of ten blocks without gaps. The game is available for video game consoles, computers, graphing calculators, phones and other electronic devices and it’s considered one of the greatest games of all times.

 



Some people devote too much time and attention to the game and start having mental images and dreams with hypothetical sequences of tetriminos, this is called the Tetris effect. 
Although, according to a research playing tetris increases brain function and general cognitive functions such as critical thinking, reasoning, language and processing.  A study, also suggests that playing tetris may help prevent the development of traumatic memories, if the game is played after the traumatic event.

The Tetris World Championship is held every year, and sponsored by Alexey Pajitnov. In 2010, the first Coordinated World Champion was crowned in the U.S.A. 



Diana Barros

4 comentários:

Fábio Freitas said...

Gotta love those classic videogames. You should've said that Tetris was originally designed to come out as a launch title for Nintendo's first handheld console Game Boy.
Nice post anyways.

Fábio Freitas 10ºB.

Anonymous said...

I don't realy understand this game, i always lose after 3 minutes of playing it... :\

Nice job Diana. :)

Your friend,
The one that shall not be named.

Anonymous said...

Thanks, the one that shall not be named. :)

Teacher Lígia Silva said...

Hey
what's all this business of anonymous friend?
She's my student and I want and need to know who is this person.
Now.....who are you ghost?
Anyway, dear Diana
thanks for the post. I'll try tetris someday to postpone my brain to age very fast.
prof. Lígia Silva