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The Tetris manual had names for the blocks (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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The long one was called Hero. Ain't that the truth.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Fairly certain this was proven to be fake

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yes, unfortunately, this is fake.

Citation: https://nerdist.com/article/jeopardy-fake-tetris-name-error/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Oh wow props

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

It seems odd that a Russian would name blocks after US states.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Feel like if it were real it would’ve been included in the recent Tetris movie? Too bizarre to have been skipped and fits with the theme of the movie.