The most addtictive game ever created
Tetris is a very, very old game. Tetris was originally designed and programmed in the Soviet Union. It was released on 1984 and it was anounced as “Greatest Game of All Time”.
The game is very VERY simple. All that happens is there are a bunch of falling blocks. The blocks consist of 4 squares re-arranged to make different shapes. You must take the blocks and arrange them in order to make perfect lines. When you do, the blocks will disappear. The objective is to see how long you can go before the blocks overflow to the top of the screen. Pretty simple. As the game progresses, each level causes the tetrominoes to fall faster, and the game ends when the stack of tetrominoes reaches the top of the playing field and no new tetrominoes are able to enter. Nearly all Tetris games allow the player to press a button to increase the speed of the current piece’s descent, rather than waiting for it to fall.
The scoring formula for the majority of Tetris products is built on the idea that more difficult line clears should be awarded more points. For example, a single line clear in Tetris Zone is worth 100 points, clearing four lines at once is worth 800, while a back-to-back Tetris is worth 1,200.
Interesting fact – Effect of Tetris on the brain
According to research from Dr. Richard Haier, Tetris can also lead to more efficient brain activity. When first playing Tetris, brain function and activity increases, along with greater cerebral energy consumption, measured by glucose metabolic rate. As Tetris players become more proficient, their brains show a reduced consumption of glucose, indicating more efficient brain activity for this task. Even moderate playing of tetris (half-an-hour a day for three months) boosts general cognitive functions such as “critical thinking, reasoning, language and processing” and increases cerebral cortex thickness.
So play Tetris and improve your brain activity