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Human Tetris (video)
youtube.com - 11/20/2008
Human Tetris (video)
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http://mysterio.bizA Japanese gameshow where contestants have to pass through unusual shapes in a moving wall.

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Today on Offworld
Boing Boing — Today Offworld got an exclusive sneak peek at the awesomely retro-futurist super HYPERCUBE, a game by Montreal art collective Kokoromi and developer Polytron that uses both red/blue anaglyph glasses and Johnny Lee-style Wii-mote head-tracking to play a stylishly minimalist block game inspired by the infamous Japanese "human Tetris" gameshow video. The game makes its debut tonight at Montreal's Society for Arts and Technology (the SAT), so head down if you're in the area. We also mapped the evolution of the rhythm game from Parappa to Rock Band via a ...

HYPERCUBE Is Human Tetris With 3D Glasses [Hypercube]
Kotaku — [image] You know Human Tetris , right? A funny segment on a Japanese variety show gets made into an internationally-syndicated television series, wears out its welcome, the world moves on. HYPERCUBE, an experimental game by Canadian experimental games troupe Kokoromi, is based on a similar premise. Only, it's not a joke, and it looks really, really cool. The object of the game is as follows: You have a cluster of procedurally generated cubes right in front of you, and your goal is to quickly line it up to fit through the hole in the wall that's moving toward you, by rotating the cluster with the controller. That's the human tetris ...

A Video Handbook for Thanksgiving Day
NewTeeVee — Today we’re all probably doing a lot of timeless things. Feasting with family goes back to the Pilgrims. Great Aunt Mindy’s cranberry sauce recipe hasn’t changed in generations, nor should it. Even watching football games feels like a prehistoric ritual at this point. But that doesn’t mean new traditions, like ...

Happy 25th Birthday Tetris, Here’s 25 Parody Videos
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Last week Tetris turned 25 years old. The game was created by Russian designer Alexey Pajitnov on June 6, 1984. Over 125 million copies of the game has been sold across 50 platforms. Tetris broke the Guinness World Records for having the most versions of a single videogame. In celebration of the game’s birthday, I have compiled a countdown of 25 of the greatest Tetris spoof videos. The ranking is in no particular order. 25. Japanese game show. 24. Tetris prank on Japanese guy. ...

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