#Tetris block names manual

Good readers are skeptical and do their own investigating Being lazy can lead to all sorts of things. The tweet featuring the joke photoshop went somewhat viralgarnering about 12,500. Good journalists have citations (links) to corroborating info. The block names included: Orange Ricky, Blue Ricky, Cleveland Z, Rhode Island Z, Hero, Teewee, and Smashboy. Trump may have coined the 'fake news' term, but there's plenty of fake stuff all over the web. If nothing else, this should serve as incentive to do your own research. If I found Cleveland Z in my manual, I'd definitely have posted a pic of it! Who'd have thought to claim the Tetris blocks have ridiculous names? Genius! I draw this conclusion from the lack of additional photos. My conclusion is this is a hoax, albeit a fun one.

#Tetris block names manual

I want this to be real, but I can't find a manual containing this info.

So what is the origin of Orange Ricky, Blue Ricky, Hero, Teewee, Cleveland Z, Rhode Island Z, and Smashboy? I'm wondering if this may have been an early version of the manual or accompanied a special release of the game. What gives? I found the preceding page (from the photo) of the trick to getting a piece to nudge sideways at the last minute. The 3 main modes (Marathon, 40 Lines, and Ultra) will adhere to the design guideline more closely than other modes. He wasn’t the only expert gamer to chime in with their view, as Chris Chapman also addressed the question. 4 References The Tetris Guideline is the current specification that The Tetris Company enforces for making all new (2001 and later) Tetris game products alike in form. His post said I just checked my Tetris manual, no names.

Online, I sifted through a slew of Tetris 'manual files' looking for this elusive page 12. The name tetromino is a combination of the prefix tetra- four (from Ancient Greek -), and domino. The gaming historian quickly came out and posted on social media that the quiz show was wrong as there are no names for the blocks in Tetris. I looked through my official Nintendo Tetris manual as well as the Tengen one. It seems to have originated from this Tetris Tweet. Everyone seems to have latched onto this pic, but no one seems to have photographed their manual showing these names. Only one picture seems to have traveled around the internet in support of this naming convention. Their names are chosen so as to resemble their shape I is the 4x1 stick, J is the 3x1. Added over 4 years ago by Jeffrey Bezos Last updated 4 months ago. I'd heard these bricks (each consisting of four blocks) referred to as tetrominos, but actual names? Would I find Fred, Olivia, and Ned? Tetris blocks have names!?! Could this be true or was this another PhotoShop job? This story fascinated me. Let us first of all consider the tetrominoes: I, J, L, O, S, T, and Z.

My manual omitted this naming convention, but it may be from an early-release or special edition version - or a complete hoax.Ībout a month ago when I heard the seven Tetris blocks each had a name, I took a look at my game manual.