{"id":364,"date":"2002-02-24T21:45:41","date_gmt":"2002-02-25T05:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/infocom-presents-tetris\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:49:04","slug":"infocom-presents-tetris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/24\/infocom-presents-tetris\/","title":{"rendered":"Infocom presents Tetris"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16532,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.csd.uwo.ca\\\/Infocom&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20130518142637\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.csd.uwo.ca:80\\\/Infocom\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 10:37:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 10:37:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16533,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/thcnet.net\\\/error\\\/index.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16534,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.douglasadams.com\\\/creations\\\/infocomjava.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260304121338\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.douglasadams.com\\\/creations\\\/infocomjava.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 10:37:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 10:37:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Y&#8217;know, you might only get this if you&#8217;ve been using computers for a long time&#8230;but I think it&#8217;s hilarious. Royce will, too, if he hasn&#8217;t seen it already (or, perhaps, if it&#8217;s just been a while). Tom will probably understand too. The rest of you&#8230;well, you&#8217;ll just have to bear with us &#8216;old-timers&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csd.uwo.ca\/Infocom\/\" title=\"Infocom homepage\">Infocom<\/a> was a company that did some of the earliest computer games, back when everything was completely text-based. Think <a href=\"http:\/\/thcnet.net\/error\/index.php\" title=\"thcnet: Zork 404\">Zork<\/a>, or the origininal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.douglasadams.com\/creations\/infocomjava.html\" title=\"Douglas Adams: HHGttG Game\">Hitchiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/a> game. If you have to ask&#8230;you won&#8217;t get it.<\/p>\n<pre><code>You are looking at the shaft. A large red block, four units by one\nunit, is above your head, dropping slowly. It has its long edge\nhorizontally aligned.\n\n&gt;turn the block\n\nI don't know how to \"turn\" something.\nThe block descends lower.\n\n&gt;rotate block\n\nThe block rotates in mid air, now with the long edge vertically\naligned.\nThe block descends lower.\n\n&gt;move block left\n\nThe block shifts to the left.\nThe block descends lower.\n\n&gt;drop block\n\nYou aren't holding the block.\nThe block descends lower.\n\n&gt;move block down\n\nThe block drops into the narrow gap, filling the four columns.\nThe columns flash twice, then vanish, dropping the blocks\nabove them down.  A musical tone is heard.\n\n[Your score increased by 20!]\n\nA square grey block, two units by two units, is now overhead,\nslowly dropping.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>&#8212; This is from a post I found that was originally posted to alt.religion.kibology, by Dave A. Largtigue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are looking at the shaft. 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