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📅 March 11, 2020

A Terminal Interface for Tetris

Here’s classic tile-matching puzzle video game for Linux and macOS users: Tetris.

Install:

on macOS via Homebrew brew install samtay/tui/tetris
on Arch/Manjaro/Arco etc the package is available in AUR yay -S tetris-terminal-git
other Linux distros via snapcraft sudo snap install tetris-thefenriswolf

Usage:

Once installed start the game with tetris.

Available options:

 
-h,--help                Show this help text
-n,--no-preview          Don't show preview cell
-a,--ascii-only          Use '[]' as hard drop preview cell
-p,--preview-chars CHARS Customize two character preview cell (default: ◤◢)
-l,--level LEVEL         Specify level (unspecified results in prompt)
--high-score             Print high score and exit

📅 April 19, 2013

Digital Artists Turn A Sao Paolo Building Into The World’s Biggest Interactive Arcade [video]

Resident’s of Brazil’s bustling financial capital, Sao Paulo, are being encouraged to slow down and enjoy some retro video games on a huge scale.

The facade of a cultural centre has been turned into a 3,000 square metre screen where passers-by are challenged to play classic games such as Pac-Man, Tetris and a specially created version of Space Invaders.

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📅 April 12, 2013

Watch Steve Wozniak Play Tetris On A Game Boy [video]

Watch the co-founder of Apple blast his way through a game of Tetris and talk about the adventures that this game and GameBoy Light have given him throughout his life.

Jump over the break to watch the co-founder of Apple blast his way through a game of Tetris and talk about the adventures that this game and GameBoy Light have given him throughout his life…

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📅 November 17, 2011

SpellTower: A Word Game That Does Your iPad Justice [video]

SpellTower is a word puzzle game that combines the traditional word making with Tetris style block physics. In the game, the task is to make long words or use bonus tiles to clear extra letters from the screen.

SpellTower is a new iPad game by Zach Gage, the name behind the titles such as Halcyon, Bit Pilot, and Unify. SpellTower is a word puzzle game that combines the traditional word making with Tetris style block physics. In the game, the task is to make long words or use bonus tiles to clear extra letters from the screen.

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📅 August 1, 2011

Playing Tetris With 18 iPads [ stop-motion video]

What do you do with 18 iPads and some remedial stop-motion expertise? You do what the guys over at iPStand did and play Tetris with them, complete with a chiptune cover of Korobieniki playing in the background.

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