the simplest and best game of all time.

You know, when you think about it, what's easier than just placing some oddly shaped blocks to form lines? Some find it boring, doing the same thing over and over again to achieve a repetitious goal and it definitely requires a persistent soul. But there's much more to it than that. Tetris actually makes you think faster, more efficiently, and it improves your ability to think ahead. Today, Tetris can be found on virtually everything including phones, PDAs, computers, game consoles, and even calculators. It's also been played on a large scale using lights on a building to recreate the falling of tetriminoes! Tetris is extremely simple, fun, and it has some benefits too!


The game was made by Russian designer and programmer Alexey Pajitnov on June 6, 1984. Ever since then, it's won awards such as the Greatest Game of All Time by Electronic Gaming Monthly in 2007 and it's placed 2nd in the 100 Greatest Video Games of All Time by IGN.

Some people, such as myself, even suffer from playing too much! The Tetris Effect, as it is called, is when the brain involuntary pictures Tetris combinations when the player is not even playing the game. Shit, this happened to me a lot when I played Tetris religiously. But there ARE some positive effects to playing Tetris as well. I focus more in things I do and according to recent studies, playing Tetris boosts general cognitive functions such as critical thinking, reasoning, language and processing and increase cerebral cortex thickness. It also has been proven that playing Tetris after experiencing a traumatic event reduces the number of flashbacks to that event. Can you believe what an extremely simple game does?


It just goes to show you, the best things in life are the most simple. No doubt.