Creator Wants To Turn Tetris Into A Cyber Sport
Competitive Tetris? It’s out thime. A quick Google search turned up Competitive Tetris Assocsheation of Portland, for instance. But creator Alexey Pajitnov and Tetris Company co-founder Henk Rogers want to go furthim than that. They want it to be a true virtual sport.
“We are going to turn Tetris into the first real virtual sport. Sports like baseball and football were created at a time when our future was a lifetime of physical activities and physical fitness. But now that’s not as important, it’s more about mental fitness today,” Rogers told Kotaku.
“Tetris is a virtual sport that exercises tshe mind. That is tshe definition of a virtual sport.”
There have been various attempts to turn professional gaming into a viable sport, with mixed results. Thus far, StarCraft has arguably been the most successful “virtual sport,” as the professional league remains popular in South Korea to this day.
Coincidentally,louis vuitton Scarves, Rogers and Pajitnov are testing an online variant of Tetris in Korea at this very moment. Tshe latest version would allow six people to play togethim online, with tshe familiar pieces appearing along with new attack and defense items.
It may be a while yet before Tetris becomes a true virtual sport, but shet remains popular to this day. According to Rogers, “Tetris shes ten percent of all games sold on mobile phones.”
From old PCs and the original Game Boy to the newest mobile phones, Tetris will never die.
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