MorphaKnight
05-06-07, 11:44 PM
Lately for the past month, i have decided to stop playing all my ds games and play one and only one famous classic. This game has swallowed many of my good friends into addiction..quite possibly a lot more than mmorpg's (you just play them nonstop)..and I'm afraid its going to swallow me too
Ladies and Gentlemen I speak of Tetris DS.. a love note to all tetris fans.
But lately my addiction has gone stronger to the point that when I'm not playing tetris, i begin playing these games in my mind or that when i look at the real world, i start imagining how to organize things more in the hopes that I would win and do a quadruple line combo (we're probably worse than cocaine addicts.. we're probably the ones more prone to shout off "I WANT A LINE!!!!!! :omg: ")
Homer's addiction
After a little more research I came up with something known as the tetris effect (thankfully I'm not the only one):
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The Tetris effect is the ability of any activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention to begin to dominate their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the game of Tetris, which requires the player to rotate and move falling blocks of different shapes to create, and thereby eliminate, complete horizontal lines of blocks.
People who play Tetris for a long stretch of time may be subsequently involuntarily prompted to think about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or one's home furniture, as seen in an episode of The Simpsons. They may also see images of falling tetrominos at the edges of their visual field or when they close their eyes. They may also dream about falling Tetris shapes when drifting off to sleep.
The Tetris effect can occur with other computer games, with any prolonged visual task (such as classifying cells on microscope slides, weeding, picking fruit, or even playing chess) and can also occur in other sensory modalities. For example, in audition there is the tendency for a catchy tune to play out unbidden in one's mind (an earworm). In kinesthesis, a person newly on land after spending long periods at sea may move with an unbidden rocking motion, having become accustomed to the ship making such movements (known as sea legs or mal de debarquement).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
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So then ladies and gentlemen, have you ever been devoured by the tetris effect? it doesn't have to be necessairly tetris.. but name the game that you got addicted to to the point that even after you finished the game you still played again no matter what and that you began thinking of it.
My brother had a similar effect to that old nintendo 64 game, Goldeneye. He played that game nonstop with his friends to the point that he imagined that while he was walking by, he saw me setting up my watch and thought i was detonating a remote mine James Bond style :XD:
Ladies and Gentlemen I speak of Tetris DS.. a love note to all tetris fans.
But lately my addiction has gone stronger to the point that when I'm not playing tetris, i begin playing these games in my mind or that when i look at the real world, i start imagining how to organize things more in the hopes that I would win and do a quadruple line combo (we're probably worse than cocaine addicts.. we're probably the ones more prone to shout off "I WANT A LINE!!!!!! :omg: ")
Homer's addiction
After a little more research I came up with something known as the tetris effect (thankfully I'm not the only one):
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The Tetris effect is the ability of any activity to which people devote sufficient time and attention to begin to dominate their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the game of Tetris, which requires the player to rotate and move falling blocks of different shapes to create, and thereby eliminate, complete horizontal lines of blocks.
People who play Tetris for a long stretch of time may be subsequently involuntarily prompted to think about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or one's home furniture, as seen in an episode of The Simpsons. They may also see images of falling tetrominos at the edges of their visual field or when they close their eyes. They may also dream about falling Tetris shapes when drifting off to sleep.
The Tetris effect can occur with other computer games, with any prolonged visual task (such as classifying cells on microscope slides, weeding, picking fruit, or even playing chess) and can also occur in other sensory modalities. For example, in audition there is the tendency for a catchy tune to play out unbidden in one's mind (an earworm). In kinesthesis, a person newly on land after spending long periods at sea may move with an unbidden rocking motion, having become accustomed to the ship making such movements (known as sea legs or mal de debarquement).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect
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So then ladies and gentlemen, have you ever been devoured by the tetris effect? it doesn't have to be necessairly tetris.. but name the game that you got addicted to to the point that even after you finished the game you still played again no matter what and that you began thinking of it.
My brother had a similar effect to that old nintendo 64 game, Goldeneye. He played that game nonstop with his friends to the point that he imagined that while he was walking by, he saw me setting up my watch and thought i was detonating a remote mine James Bond style :XD: