Marcin KrzyzanowskiSomeone out there on the internet found the original booklet that came with the original Nintendo system version of 'Tetris' and, hold on to your hats people, the blocks have names.
THE BLOCKS HAVE NAMES!
THE BLOCKS HAVE NAMES!
amro@krzyzanowskim some of these are very silly
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈@krzyzanowskim "hero" is indeed, aptly named.
ednl 🇪🇺@krzyzanowskim @pete That is photoshopped, unfortunately. The original source: https://twitter.com/vecchitto/status/1099748313862234114
Pete@pete @krzyzanowskim Pity, isn't it. I read that they did use those names in the Tetris movie! Haven't seen it, but if that is the case then it has become fact after all :) Here's an older article talking about the hoax: https://nerdist.com/article/jeopardy-fake-tetris-name-error/
Elosha@ednl @pete @krzyzanowskim No they didn‘t call them like that the movie, the story is too Japan and Russia centric to involve USA‘s geography.
Brosephine Wires
Guilherme Morais 🇬🇧🇧🇷
Dan Leehr@krzyzanowskim this was a joke, someone shopped it up a few years ago. It even made its way into a Jeopardy! Clue 😂 https://nerdist.com/article/jeopardy-fake-tetris-name-error/
Lizzy 
@Leehro @krzyzanowskim smashboy is very modern parlance now that I think about it
Eric Vitiello
Chris Kendall@krzyzanowskim @Lazarou Interestingly that literally translates as GROMITMALCHIK in the original Russian
@ottocrat @krzyzanowskim as an aside I cannot wait for that Tetris movie! SMASHBOY!
Matt Corey@krzyzanowskim they spelled Smashboi wrong
Benjamin@krzyzanowskim tag yourself I'm smashboy
Daniel Cormier
Vlad Iliescu 🐬@krzyzanowskim ah, ye olde smashboy
Frank Cote@krzyzanowskim Fantastic!
Ellie@krzyzanowskim Nintendo was wrong, and printing their wrongness in a booklet doesn't change that.
Mario Mike@krzyzanowskim This was debunked the first time it made the rounds
Jay Rishel@krzyzanowskim why do they all sound like cocktails
Matt Hodgkinson
Doug Warren@krzyzanowskim
Bah! It's Aye, Ell, Gamma, Oh, Ess, Tee, and Zee, or Zed if you're from the Commonwealth.
Bah! It's Aye, Ell, Gamma, Oh, Ess, Tee, and Zee, or Zed if you're from the Commonwealth.
Beeks@krzyzanowskim reddit shuts down for a bit and Mastodon starts to get hit with reposts of fake old things represented as real for internet points. Awesome....
SteveP 🇨🇦@krzyzanowskim gee blue Ricky, I'm really sorry your mom blew up.
Will Smith@krzyzanowskim this one’s a fake. We talked about it on the podcast a few months ago and everyone let us know.
Bill Hooker 😷@krzyzanowskim I was today years old...
Katzentratschen@krzyzanowskim In case you wanna edit your post and add some info which isn't fake.
Volker Nehring@krzyzanowskim Smashboy!
acb@krzyzanowskim Were these calques of the blocks’ original Russian names?
RMR@krzyzanowskim
I just love to here all kinds of #Tetris/ #Korobeiniki Interpretations as a #soundtrack while playing. This is one of my favourites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjVY3ftT6VI
PS: But there are also awesome #Metal, #Jazz, #Techno, #Ragtime and many other versions worth listening.
PPS: Obviously like all good music its in #Moll...
Tetris Theme but it gets harder and H A R D E R
Adam Auckland@krzyzanowskim this is blowing people up, but what’s even more crazy is why people don’t think things have names.
Everything has a name. If it needs to be different to something else there will be a name.
I’m obsessed by this fact.
Your toothpaste has a name.
The screw on the lid of the toothpaste has a name because they are all different.
The grading of the foil on the toothpaste tube has a name.
Shannon Clark@krzyzanowskim @epixoip which original Nintendo version of Tetris. There were two. A good one and a not as good one.
How do I know?
Guess.
Go on….
Yup we bought the not as good version (likely my mom still has it, along with our original Zelda cartridge)
Dave MacFarlane@krzyzanowskim hero is aptly named
telnetephant@krzyzanowskim @petertubbs Most folks just call me Orange Ricky…
Coach Leftist Diesel
Cass@krzyzanowskim MiNd BlOwN!
ospalh
Red Army Choir: Korobeiniki.
Auf YouTube findest du großartige Videos und erstklassige Musik. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder mit der ganzen Welt teilen.
Chris [list of emoji]Fun fact: these are all the names of 80s-era designer drugs popular in the early rave scene.
(Disclosure: not actually a fact.)
Dave Fischer@krzyzanowskim Can confirm that everyone in Rhode Island refers to that shape as a "Rhode Island Z", and at state level competitions when it appears, the state anthem plays.
starfox 64@krzyzanowskim Smashboy