World's largest game of Tetris

by Blake Snow { Apr 24th 2006 at 11:45PM }

If you're in Rhode Island and like Tetris, you just might be in luck. TechEBlog writes: "This giant Tetris game was created using 'eleven custom-built circuit boards, a twelve-story data network, a personal computer running Linux, a radio-frequency video game controller, and over 10,000 Christmas lights.' It took over five months of planning and can be seen off Interstate 95 in Rhode Island."

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Dustin @ Apr 24th 2006 11:51PM

Old news. See http://www.blinkenlights.de/arcade/games.en.html for a building that has several games.

Andrew Hsieh @ Apr 24th 2006 11:57PM

@Dustin: The link you provided was in France, and is indeed old news. This one is located on Rhode Island.

Smith @ Apr 25th 2006 12:15AM

Well, this Rhode Island one is from 2000 so it is indeed quite old...but eh.

Eric @ Apr 25th 2006 12:40AM

Although this is cool...My mind immediatly shot to a 12 story Duck Hunt. How cool (by cool I mean retarded) would it be to play a 12 story Duck Hunt game with a gun 2 stories high...I know I would!

Lee @ Apr 25th 2006 1:43AM

This was actually on the Sciences Library at my alma mater, Brown University. It was put on by Tech House once about 6 years ago.

http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/

https://techhouse.org/drupal/projects?project=tetris

Lee @ Apr 25th 2006 1:51AM

I would also mention that it's not the world's largest game of tetris, they explain on their website that record goes to Delft University in the Netherlands. But it's the largest in the Western Hemisphere.

Jim in Holland @ Apr 25th 2006 7:48AM

This defines old and busted.

University TU Delft in the Netherlands did this 10 years ago (1995!) with more floors (15).

http://www.etv.tudelft.nl/vereeniging/archief/lustrum/90/english.html

Must be a slow news day somewhere...don't you wish there was a war on to comment about?