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From: dcc@hpcldcc.HP.COM (Don Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Anyone seen the game Tetris?
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Date: 22 Feb 89 01:25:13 GMT
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> ...What I will say is that
> Tetris is one of the better (or best as you may prefer) games available
> for the Mac.  I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to lose sleep, avoid
> work, or in any other way become so involved in an incredibly addicting
> experience.  You have been warned :-)

I occasionally come across articles about the effects of working
with VDT's, and one of the points often mentioned is that users tend not
to blink often enough, consequently causing eye irritation.  I've been
using computer screens for better than 10 years (before that I was
punching IBM cards), but it wasn't until I got Tetris for my Mac that I
understood what 'dry eyeballs' were all about.  It's remarkable how I
can be so engrossed in a game as to be unconscious of all messages of
physical discomfort (indeed, are any messages even being transmitted during
such intense concentration?); then when the game ends I suddenly realize
that I haven't been blinking enough, or at all.

So, yes, Tetris is absorbing and addictive.  But I concur with an earlier
poster who noted that one eventually reaches a plateau.

BTW, try turning the keyboard repeat rate up when you play Tetris.  You'll
find it useful.


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