<story><title>The Tetris Effect</title><url>https://nonzerosum.games/thetetriseffect.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lloeki</author><text>&amp;gt; this time I was fixated on how to create a three-dimensional version of Tetris.&lt;p&gt;I remember playing a 3D Tetris-like game called Blockout back in the day. Some shapes were odd and non-4-block, key mappings for rotations were mind bending.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mobygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;498&amp;#x2F;blockout&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mobygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;498&amp;#x2F;blockout&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the Tetris effect, at some point I played a lot of Tetris and seeing falling tetrominos when falling asleep was only the beginning of it: my brain built some heavy pattern recognition for pieces, so much so that I was basically daydreaming tetrominos &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;, as in seeing a tetromino shape first, then realising what the thing actually was (e.g a bunch of buildings, a bunch of cars parked in a certain way, in books where rivers lined up a certain way, or words were even vaguely tetromino-shaped), or seeing stacks (&amp;quot;I could fit a T in there&amp;quot; and stuff).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vikingerik</author><text>The scariest version of that mental Tetris Effect I ever got was from Katamari Damacy.  I&amp;#x27;d be driving along a road, and start judging items like mailboxes and signs as to whether my car was big enough to roll them up if I drove into them.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Tetris Effect</title><url>https://nonzerosum.games/thetetriseffect.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lloeki</author><text>&amp;gt; this time I was fixated on how to create a three-dimensional version of Tetris.&lt;p&gt;I remember playing a 3D Tetris-like game called Blockout back in the day. Some shapes were odd and non-4-block, key mappings for rotations were mind bending.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mobygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;498&amp;#x2F;blockout&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.mobygames.com&amp;#x2F;game&amp;#x2F;498&amp;#x2F;blockout&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for the Tetris effect, at some point I played a lot of Tetris and seeing falling tetrominos when falling asleep was only the beginning of it: my brain built some heavy pattern recognition for pieces, so much so that I was basically daydreaming tetrominos &lt;i&gt;everywhere&lt;/i&gt;, as in seeing a tetromino shape first, then realising what the thing actually was (e.g a bunch of buildings, a bunch of cars parked in a certain way, in books where rivers lined up a certain way, or words were even vaguely tetromino-shaped), or seeing stacks (&amp;quot;I could fit a T in there&amp;quot; and stuff).</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bitwize</author><text>One of the earliest &amp;quot;too soon?&amp;quot; jokes I saw on the internet was a 2002 or so animated GIF of a game of Tetris being played around and between the World Trade Center towers: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;172830-september-11th-2001-attacks&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;knowyourmeme.com&amp;#x2F;photos&amp;#x2F;172830-september-11th-2001-a...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>