IP: 100 ft tall Tetris game at Brown University

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:58:04 -0400
> To: farber () cis upenn edu
> From: Timothy Barmann <tim () cybertalk com>
> Subject: 100 ft tall Tetris game at Brown University
>
> Dave,
>
> Thought IP readers would enjoy this. Complete
> article is at
> http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/frame_it.cgi?URL=/report/pjb/stories/03572751.htm
>
> Tim
>
>
> 4.20.2000 00:03:33
> Ultimate Tetris: `really cool'
> By TIMOTHY C. BARMANN
> Journal Staff Writer
>
> They're playing games at Brown University -- in a big way.
>
> A group of computer science and engineering students have
> constructed a massive computer game 100 feet tall, out of
> Christmas tree lights, homemade circuit boards, and
> thousands of feet of cable.
>
> For the past several nights, the students have turned the
> Sciences Library building on the Brown campus into a giant
> video display screen so they could play a game called Tetris.
>
> The students believe it is the largest fully functional Tetris
> game in the world.
>
> ``We completely agreed it would be a really cool thing to
> do,'' said Soren Spies, a Brown senior computer science and
> electrical engineering major, and a leader of the project.
>
> Cool indeed. Since the project went live Friday night, it has
> garnered worldwide attention. Some 25,000 visitors have
> come to their Web site , Spies said, and he has fielded calls
> from the Sunday Times of London, Time magazine and the
> Discovery Channel Canada.
>
> The Web site address is:
>
> http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org
>
> Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, and a
> self-described Tetris master, flew to Providence yesterday
> from his Los Gatos, Calif., home just to see the installation.
>
> ``When I tell people that I'm off to Rhode Island to play
> Tetris, people think that I'm stupid,'' Wozniak said in an
> e-mail exchange with a reporter from his plane yesterday
> afternoon. ``I'm not stupid, just crazy.''
>
> --- SNIP ---
>
>
> --Timothy Barmann
>   Technology Writer
>   The Providence Journal
>   75 Fountain St.
>   Providence, RI 02902
>   401-277-7369
>   tim () cybertalk com