Gregory's ServerSomeone 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!
Marcin Krzyzanowski
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ednl πͺπΊ
@krzyzanowskim @pete That is photoshopped, unfortunately. The original source: https://twitter.com/vecchitto/status/1099748313862234114
ednl πͺπΊ
@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 didnβt call them like that the movie, the story is too Japan and Russia centric to involve USAβs geography.
Dan Leehr
@krzyzanowskim this was a joke, someone shopped it up a few years ago. It even made its way into a Jeopardy! Clue π https://nerdist.com/article/jeopardy-fake-tetris-name-error/
Lizzy :Fire_Trans:
@Leehro @krzyzanowskim smashboy is very modern parlance now that I think about it 
FiveSeventeen
Looks like this is the next big thing that will be banned in Florida, then. All the names are clearly gender-male, and pieces just slot together like...  
Brian Hawthorne
@krzyzanowskim @ginapieters In general, any post that begins βsomeone on the internetβ usually ends up as βoops, I fell for another prank.β
Gina C. Pieters, Ph.D.
@bhawthorne @krzyzanowskim Quite true. But I like the thought of this history, and no harm is done by the fable.
FrankFrankFrank
@ginapieters @krzyzanowskim @bhawthorne sometimes a relentless pursuit of the truth is overrated 
Ellie
@krzyzanowskim Nintendo was wrong, and printing their wrongness in a booklet doesn't change that. 
Doug Warren
@krzyzanowskim 
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....
Matthias
@krzyzanowskim They have names..?!  
RMR
@krzyzanowskim 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...
Adam Auckland
@krzyzanowskim this is blowing people up, but whatβs even more crazy is why people donβt think things have names. Everything has a name. If it needs to be different to something else there will be a name.
Adam Auckland
Iβm 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 onβ¦. Yup we bought the not as good version (likely my mom still has it, along with our original Zelda cartridge)   |
@krzyzanowskim "hero" is indeed, aptly named.