How do you know when something has become part of our popular culture? Usually when it evolves, spreads, and appears in different ways. See how Tetris has become one of the biggest cultural icons of our time.
Office Building Tetris
Hera an entire office building in downtown Tokyo is converted in to a giant game of Tetris. An absolutely amazing feat, it must have involved hundreds and hundreds of office workers with split-second timing! Seriously thought, the ability to programme an office's lights led to this fantastic display. A serious Tetris aficionado must have been the mastermind behind this!
Tetris as Performance Art
OK, so the “voiceover” is slightly annoying here, but you have to give it to the people who set this up - it must have taken a heck of a lot of organizing! Best probably watched with the sound turned down unless the compulsion to go out and find the “voices” involved and tear out their throats becomes too much!
Tetris Ninjas
Although shot from afar (probably for the best) this video shows that Tetris can indeed be translated in to all forms of art - here we have miming "ninjas" performing the game, much to the adulation of the audience!
Tetris for the Idiot Show Host
This will amuse you - and you don't even have to speak Japanese to get it, such is the visual appeal of Tetris. A Japanese show host decides to show off his Tetris skills but at each level the game conspires against him and he has a hard job keeping up with the technology!
Tetris Goes Euro Trash
Ah, these crazy Europeans, what won't they do to the art of music? Here we see the Tetris music given the full Euro Trash treatment. The most annoying thing about this song is, like the original game music (itself a rip off), it will stay in your head for hours, if not days afterwards.
Tetris Versus Stickman
Just as Alien Versus Predator was just a matter of time, so it had to be that the Stickman and Tetris at some point had to cross paths. Who (or what!) will come out on top when the Stickman finds himself in a game of Tetris?
Glass Bottle Themed Tetris
Just for the sheer silliness of it, this video deserves inclusion here! The three madcap young folks certainly know how to get the party started! I can just imagine their friends imploring them to do it again and again. Excuse me a second, a gentleman in white coat wants a word with me.
Japanese Game Show Tetris
Ah Japanese game shows, what would we do without them? Here, the contestants have to play human Tetris and fit themselves through the provided holes in order to avoid a soaking. Not as extreme by any means as any number of Japanese game shows, this is still an insight in to the psyche of the Japanese nation. And you thought Yoko Ono was the exception?
Tetris the Movie
No, surely not, you have to be kidding, right? Set in the future when Tetris has evolved in to a mega game where the shapes are "driven" by humans, a man sets out to avenge his professional Tetris playing brother's death. I have no idea if this is a spoof or not. I really hope it is!
Wedding Cake Tetris
Some people are so obsessed by the game that when they get married their cake is in the shape of, you guessed it. It takes all types to make a world, as my grandmother used to say when confronted by things and people she did not or could not understand!
