The Wild History of Tetris

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 78.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Tetris is an iconic game with a fascinating history. Dive in today to learn all about this classic puzzle game.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of IHeart Radio.
0:11.0	Dastvedanya and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh. There's Chuck. Jerry's here too. And this is Stuff You Should Know, Comrade.
0:22.0	Yeah, the Tetris Edition.
0:26.1	How much Tetris have you played?
0:27.8	What's your background there?
0:29.2	I was a very casual Tetris player.
0:31.2	I mean, I didn't even realize there were as many levels as there are.
0:36.6	I tend to flip out when things start to really go fast.
0:41.3	So I wasn't very good at Tetris, but I did enjoy it when I played it.
0:45.4	And where did you play it?
0:46.6	Like what system?
0:47.4	On the NES, the classic NES.
0:49.6	Okay.
0:50.7	How about you, Chuck?
0:51.9	What is your relationship to Tetris?
0:54.5	Well, the only way I ever played it was on a Game Boy.
0:58.5	I don't know if I had a Game Boy if it was Scott's.
1:02.4	I know he had one, but at any rate, I played it on the Game Boy only
1:06.0	and really, really loved it and got into that for a while.
1:10.7	I wasn't, like, obsessed with it or anything, but I did have the Tetris dreams.
1:14.7	I did walk around seeing things as Tetris on the landscape.
1:19.2	So it definitely invaded my consciousness for a while, but I never played it on anything but the Game Boy,
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