Flash in the Brainpan: (Tetris) Heaven

Thursday, April 21, 2011

When the titanically popular web-comic xkcd ran a cartoon yesterday called “Tetris Heaven”, about a gigantic oddly-shaped Tetris piece that exactly fits what the player needs to clear every row, it took less than 24 hours for a fan of the game to bring that Heaven to Earth. Heaven seems like a normal Tetris game, until one of those ideal pieces comes drifting down the screen. But don’t turn them or you’ll get a mess like this:

As games based on comics go, it’s a lot more fun than Superman for the Atari 2600.

(As seen on Explain xkcd. Thanks, Barbara!)

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