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Tetris, a Soviet-ilesigned video game. appeals to people who would rather play a non-violent
Ka me
Soviet-made game tests the mind
Bv Betsy Cl.iyton
Emerald Assoc iate Editor
I'hi' first ever Soviet de
signed video game to ( ome to
tile I lilted SI,ill's IS HOW ill I'll
gene, and it doesn't involve
shooting. bombing. eating
something or playing a sport
Tetris is i urrently available
at Rennie's I .ending. 1214 kin
i aid St Played something like
a fast moving video Rubik's
cube Tetris was originally pro
grammed by an 1H-year old at
Moscow University and devel
oped by a re sea it her at the
USSR Acailemv of Si len
tists
Amusement Unlimited put
the game in at Rennie's about
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three weeks ago and plans to
install others around Eugene as
they heroine available Current
lv there are two Tetris games at
Oregon Stale t 'Diversity's video
an ade
1 lies are fairly si an e This
is thi' first one in Eugene, and
within the next month or two
there will he some more avail
able in other locations." said
lerry Johnston, co-owner of
Amusement I Inlimited
The table game can be played
bv one or two people simulta
neously The player uses a joy
stn k .mil a button to move and
rotate desi ending geometrii
blot ks into the bottom of the
si reen. where the objei t is to tit
the block pier es together to
build solid, horizontal rows be
fore the piei es land
There are seven differently
shaped r harm ters in the game
One ol seven appears randomly
at the top of the st reen and
starts dost ending to the bot
tom When a royy is completed
the entire line disappears and
the intensity begins ini reusing.
"I like the game Whereas a
lot of games destroy things, in
this you ai lu,illy build " Johns
ton sun!
The game lends itself to be
ing a spectator sport, he said.
"Even people who don't know
lioyy to play r an ysati li and
offer advice." Johnston said
Rennie's owner and manager
Inn l..iHnni( li said ttii' game is
verv popular "I've seen one
person plav it for three hours
straight." he said
"It's quite different from oth
er video games It's mellower
It's a video puzzle," l.aHraneh
said. "You don't have to have a
lot of video-game knowledge to
play it "
Johnston said the game is
also unique because women are
attrai ted to it "Our industry is
dominated bv men HO to 90
percent of those who pla\ vid
eo games are male." lie said
Not since Ms Pm: Man and
(ientipede have women taken
to .1 video game this well.
Johnston said
Tetris has been released to
IHM lor personal computers
and it will probably be avail
able for Nintendo in about sis
months. Johnston said.
Many say the game is a i hal
lenge The computer dec ides
randomly which pieces to dis
plus. making it impossible to
break the game In predu ting a
pattern
"It's frustrating and dial
lenging. but it's just enough so
you (an master it sometimes,"
Johnston said
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