Tetris: my guilty pleasure - it's 25 years young today!

Firstly let me introduce myself. I am Bojeeva’s wife and I really have no interest in gaming… or so I thought. When he started his nostalgic look at computer games he’s played and loved I realised that although I am no gamer there definitely were a few games which hold fond memories for me.

I’m not too good at most games to be fair. For me a great computer game is a pick up and play puzzle, fighting or driving game, and usually one that I can’t put down because of sheer addiction – “just one more go and I’ll beat my highest score”.

This leads me nicely on to the fact that today happens to be the 25th anniversary of Tetris – a game that I spent far too much time playing back in the day.

My Tetris adventure started many years ago when I was given a Gameboy by my boyfriend. I wasn’t particularly interested in computer games but it seemed like a pretty cool gift nevertheless.

And about a zillion hours later I was still playing. I preferred the levels mode where you had to get 25 lines at various speeds and with or without the preview pane as spending six hours trying to get as many lines as possible got a bit dull – or maybe I was just too good!. It was far too addictive. I’m sure I’m not alone when I say I used to close my eyes and be able see blocks falling from the sky. Had to turn the music off though - such an irritating tune. How the dance version by Doctor Spin got to number six in the UK charts I will never know!

Apparently there were other games for the Gameboy too…. Who knew?

Right, I hope my first blog entry went OK. I think I might go dust of the old Gameboy now. If I can tear myself away I may even write another entry soon!