Tetris

Tetris—yes, the game you and me played when we were kids—just celebrated its 25th birthday two days ago (2nd June).

Tetris has been such a nostalgic, entertaining, and challenging game to me that I even looked for and downloaded the game into my current laptop (but jarang main), into the previous PC I used (where I played it a lot, but that was more than a year ago), as a plug-in when I used Opera (though that was a different Tetris) as well as into my SE phone (I occasionally play it, but I remember playing it a lot during last year’s Raya).

So you get how I actually enjoy the game when I do play it. I like playing Tetris so that I’ve come to think that it could be in my blood, or in less exaggerating terms, that I might have been exposed to the game a lot as a kid; I remember (or maybe I dreamt) that my dad played it a lot when I was little, that it might have been his favourite game (back when he was younger and when there weren’t as many games as there are now).

I just enjoy the thrill, of moving, controlling, placing quickly (and quickly-er) falling tetriminoes, and the winning feeling I get the many times I beat my own score (practice makes perfect?).

Anyway, I came across TetrisFriends which is still in BETA. Don’t expect the classic Tetris (the one without the ghost piece, the hold queue, etc.), but expect the classic Tetris music.

Screenshot of the web interface

I hope NO ONE notices that I only uploaded the above screenshot because I simply wanted to boast and to just show off my satisfying but not satisfying enough high score which is like in the 80% percentile rank based on score and I’m so proud of it and I really hope no one notices that.

To be honest (and maybe just a little humble) though, the highest score I’ve seen, for the Marathon mode that I’m playing, is like some 900k+… O.o So even though I’m at 80%, I guess I’m only in the Good-Great sample size, not Great-Excellent, or Excellent-Uber, or Uber-GODLIKE.

But then again, maybe I’m just under the illusion that Tetris isn’t as easy as it looks like. Maybe it’s just the proud, self-centred me.

And I should at least make it to Level 15, which I’m yet to get to. T_T That’s assuming I don’t get tired of the game after playing it excessively, in a few days time.