ATOT Effect : Tetris Documentary free on Hulu!

[cKGunslinger]

As a documentary, does it open in a kitchen? Because I only watch documentaries than open in kitchens..

 

[spacejamz]

Tetris on a 70" Aquos (my Nintendo still works)...wonder how Zelda would look? LOL

 

[Arkaign]

Time for a "Yes, Corporate Thug I really am Thor pic" with the trophy from the video? :awe:

hahah i should totally do that. for now I must sleep tho, was my bday, stayed home and chilled with my 8 week old son, he's awesome but keeps us up all hours.

 

[Arkaign]

Tetris on a 70" Aquos (my Nintendo still works)...wonder how Zelda would look? LOL

awesome. how's the input delay with the av input on that?

 

[DaTT]

I also need a non-Hulu link.......Apparently Hulu detects proxies....

 

[spacejamz]

awesome. how's the input delay with the av input on that?

the controller I hooked up seems to stick a little so it is kinda hard to tell...I think the other controller is in better working conditoin...need to go find it...

 

[CZroe]

awesome. how's the input delay with the av input on that?

Terrible, I'm sure. The image processing on my XBR sets always throws me off until I enable game mode. I prefer playing classics on the 30" KV-30XBR910 tube television over the 52" KDL-52XBR2 LCD because for some reason they don't scale well on a fixed-resolution display.

 

[OlafSicky]

Question for Thor. How does it feel to know that you are the best at something in the world in this case Tetris which is probably the biggest game of all time. I also want to know if the people in the film play any other games modern games.

 

[Cattlegod]

awesome doc. waited to read through the thread to avoid spoilers and come to find out thor is an actual member here and posting in this thread! haha can't believe it, so cool, made my evening.

 

[Arkaign]

Terrible, I'm sure. The image processing on my XBR sets always throws me off until I enable game mode. I prefer playing classics on the 30" KV-30XBR910 tube television over the 52" KDL-52XBR2 LCD because for some reason they don't scale well on a fixed-resolution display.

Hmm, yeah I've found that the old consoles with AV or RF outputs seem to not do well at all with LCD/Plasma displays, and so I keep an old CRT TV around for classic gaming duties. If I was a baller I'd have an RGB setup with modded NES/etc, but I think mods are a no-no generally speaking with Twin Galaxies/etc even if they're not gameplay-related.

Question for Thor. How does it feel to know that you are the best at something in the world in this case Tetris which is probably the biggest game of all time. I also want to know if the people in the film play any other games modern games.

That's an interesting couple of questions. First off, at this time I think Jonas is a better NES Tetris player than I am, he has the passion, the time, and the competitive spirit to keep at it, I pretty much hung NES Tetris back up a couple months after filming the doc, though I've poked my head in at some other variants looking at the feasibility of various firsts. And there are other variants at which I never really got into, that are fairly obscure to most players. TGM is a great example, I've never seen a TGM machine in person until a recent trip to Oregon where it was in someone's private collection. Alex Kerr is without a doubt a much better TGM player than me, he has had a machine local to him for a while and he's a beast at it. And then there's the various newer Tetris variants which allow for climbing, significant rotation and movement after dropping, piece swapping/holding, etc, which don't really feel right to me, I much prefer the TGM games for a modern interpretation of Tetris, it seems less coddling and deeper in gameplay. Overall I've probably played 30-35 hours of Tetris total since 1991, and a few thousand hours during 90-91 timeframe, so most of my experience is just old muscle-memory and old 'ride-a-bike' kind of instinct. It's an honor to be considered in the same community as the modern greats for sure, but I'm a shadow of what I was, and I don't have the driving fire to go down that road again. I had my time, now my life is filled with other things, even neffing hahah.

As for modern games, that's not something we discussed a whole lot. I will tell you those that I know for sure : first off, Chris Tang is an absolute boss. I mean holy crap he is spectacular at Street Fighter games, probably the best I've ever seen for a player that doesn't basically play them exclusively full-time. And he's like that with almost everything he plays. Strangely, he's not exceptionally good at Tetris, but he more than makes up for it with his wide breadth of abilities. Take 100 games, and he will be good to amazing at 99 of them in short order. He's also a modding genius, he actually made a mech suit that was featured on an episode of Entourage. I've said before that if you leave him alone with duct tape and some old electronics, he'd come out of the room with a fully functional gundam suit. Next, my old rival and absolutely stellar human being Robin Mihara is a fascinating case. I don't want to speak out of turn, but he's a genuinely awesome person to know, and more skilled in poker and simulataneous psychological and statistical analysis that I am at Tetris for example. He introduced me to some interesting modern games that I had missed, Shadow of the Collossus amongst them, that stand out as unique. Even so, he pretty much is no longer a gamer. The others are awesome as well, but I don't know them quite as much, and our time together they mostly speak of Tetris, so I'm not sure.

 

[Aikouka]

I watched it yesterday, and I couldn't shake the feeling that it felt a little disjointed. It's probably because it seemed to jump around quite a bit in regard to the topic at hand until the end when it finally settled on the tournament.

I'm not the biggest Tetris person as I prefer Lumines, but I play it from time to time. My mom has always really enjoyed the game though, and after getting her an iPad Mini for Christmas, I sent her a copy of Tetris. I ended up getting the following message (excerpt):

I played tetris on the ipad for I"d say at least two hours. Then I played it this morning up until the battery finally died in the ipad. I hate to say it but I think I'm addicted to it again.

Maybe I should apologize?

 

[pcslookout]

Thanks I don't see any ads here.

Ad Muncher ftw.

 

[BUTCH1]

Interesting, but not allowing flipping in the championship round was a bad idea, it's the players ability to use each piece as efficiently as possible that determines the skill level, making the pieces unmovable just makes it a game of random chance, not much more..

 

[Ichinisan]

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Next, my old rival and absolutely stellar human being Robin Mihara is a fascinating case. I don't want to speak out of turn, but he's a genuinely awesome person to know, and more skilled in poker and simulataneous psychological and statistical analysis that I am at Tetris for example. He introduced me to some interesting modern games that I had missed, Shadow of the Collossus amongst them, that stand out as unique. Even so, he pretty much is no longer a gamer. The others are awesome as well, but I don't know them quite as much, and our time together they mostly speak of Tetris, so I'm not sure.

Absolutely epic and brilliant work of art. I still need to play through the predecessor, Ico (pronounced "eek-oh"), which is universally praised.

Both games were released in 1080p HD for PS3 on a single disc. Even though the textures and models are not updated, I really wish they had increased the draw distance. The original SotC team seems to have squeezed every bit of technical power out of the old PS2. I never saw any other game with that kind of epic scale. The dynamic animations of the horse were so realistic and lifelike, it felt like it was really alive. Riding the horse really felt like you were controlling it with your heels and reins. In other games, it feels like you are directly controlling the horse instead of doing it through the rider.

SotC is one of the most immersive games I've ever played. Damn Roger Ebert for continually making the ignorant statement that games can never be art.

I eagerly await the third game from Team ICO (The Last Guardian). I don't care how many times its delayed. This team should always be given as much time as they need to perfect their works. They only have 2 games out, and both are marvelous works of art. The original Ico was supposed to be for the first Playstation!

 

[Phoenix86]

Finally had a chance to finish it last night. Very good documentary, thanks for posting it!

 

[Arkaign]

Interesting, but not allowing flipping in the championship round was a bad idea, it's the players ability to use each piece as efficiently as possible that determines the skill level, making the pieces unmovable just makes it a game of random chance, not much more..

That was only in that midwest gaming show mini competition, not the CWTC

 

[Kev]

I just watched this... I tried checking Twin Galaxies but the site is down. Did anyone else ever reach level 30?

 

[IAteYourMother]

never mind.

 

[Arkaign]

I just watched this... I tried checking Twin Galaxies but the site is down. Did anyone else ever reach level 30?

Hey I've got good news!

Twin Galaxies has had a rough few years, but is now under new ownership, I was at the Twin Galaxies Texas Trading Cards premiere, which was Walter Day's last hosted event, he has handed the reins over to 'Richie Knucklez' and the site has a new database manager, and should be improving by leaps and bounds quickly.

I have a new trading card as well Pretty fun time down there in Austin.