My mum used to work with criminaly insane people in an asylym. I realize now why she frequently jacked my Gameboy to play Tetris.
Can I ask what role she did? I read a book last year called ‘The Devil You Know - Tales of Forensic Psychiatry’. It was very illuminating and interesting, each chapter a different (anonymised) story of one of her patients. Especially her ‘bike lock’ theory of why some people can commit such horrific crimes.
‘Bike lock’ theory?
yo… everyone is laughing cause its kind of funny but I had a really intense and traumatic childhood… and I also played a lot of tetris as a kid. Like more than 12 hours a day of it.
Is that seriously why my trauma didn’t effect me like it would have with other people??
That’s fucking nuts. Like what.?.
Sorry to hear about your childhood. Are you one of these superhumans I watch playing Tetris and thinking “how the FUCK can anyone react that quickly?!”. I’m pleased to hear though that you found a way to not be traumatised!
Imo it gets impressive really fast if you play on keyboard, that’s what I like about this game: it surprises myself
I too, am shocked at how fast I end up going. I’ve gotten first place a few times in tetris 99 when I really focus.
Dont hesitate to check out four.lol, a very good database of tricks you can use
that site just blew my mind, thank you!!
Also, just an anecdote, but good music and puzzle games seems to help those of us who had PTSD form.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.5127/jep.028212
how it works^
This would have been great to know 3 years ago… ahwell…
What happened?
You realise that if it’s traumatic to them they might not want to talk about it?
After reading this I thought there must be a nice and simple Tetris game in the play store. Boy was I wrong. I think some guy has a “block puzzle” empire and has just rereleased the same tetris clone game a hundred times. And official Tetris is a total abomination of unlocks and achievements.
Bummer.
Yeah the ip is very horribly maintained. Imo the best game is an fangame, tetr.io
For Android there is Techmino, though it isn’t on the Play Store and instead you download it from the project’s github. https://github.com/26F-Studio/Techmino
I went through a similar thing, conclusion I came to was that as Tetris is so popular, the owners of the IP have it on lockdown… it is quite a specific IP that’s kinda hard to do something similar-but-the-same.
Options I came up with were pirating a copy, or xbox game pass (iirc Tetris Effect is available there). Or… are there any Gameboy emulators that run on mobile?
communism wins again
