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- zev8910, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Wired needs to learn how to use paragraph breaks.
The story was less interesting than I had hoped. No explanation about pharmatronics.
Between Tetris and Dr. Mario, I would see things falling and rotating in my mind days after a marathon game session.
This lasted until Katamari.
Now I secretly wish I could roll things up! - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21for me i see beating up hookers with a bat and then running them over.
- JordanRL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Did anyone else notice that the article is from May....
...1994? - thecanadiangeek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12It also helped me learn to pack a cube van.
- Black913Hole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12its DDR for me, i see scrolling arrows when i close my eyes sometimes.
- SpoonMachine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I have the same problem, though mine started years before I ever played GTA.
- skywake, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I remember when I was a kid and I used to play random games non-stop
if I stopped for a day I could swear I heard random parts of the game....
The games that did this the most to me?
Donkey Kong Land, Tetris and Pokemon.... - Malcx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6First person to complain this is old news gets a slap.
Yes it's 12 year old "news" but I've not seen it before and it's actually quite interesting...
Dugg - BigKitty, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5How many people here see the DIGG SPY display scrolling as soon as they shut their eyes? C'mon, fess up...
- netdroid9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Damn Diablo II. Every time I closed my eyes I could swear I saw unique breast plate...
- AdamTReineke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is called Digg for a reason. ;-)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3i'm actually suprised someone dug that far back into the wired archives
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Tetris is addicting-- in fact I think it's the best game ever. I'm sure many of you have played the DS version through Nintendo Wifi-- it's so much fun!
- EmmSee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Bejeweled had me seeing the 3 brake lights on the back of cars and wanted to slide the middle one down to create a 3-block...
- t2048, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is my brain on Tetris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59y2KLDT_1Y - Bols2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is your Brain on Tetris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EITHNoi_IGs - Flashman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Digg's oldest article? The first page on the internet got frontpaged the other day.
- Sabin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I play alot of puzzle games....constantly. Right now i am hooked on tetris, lumines and puyo puyo. When i'm not playing i sometimes catch myself working on strategies in my mind. When i play lumines i sometimes miss my subway stop.....by 6 stations.
BTW, for paragraph breaks check the print version.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.05/tetris_pr.html - TxCub420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BURIED
Yes, I get the joke. Half of the Digg users are complete sheep and will digg anything you put before them, including an article from 12 years ago. But it's ***** like this that dilutes the digg experience. - CriX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Makes sense. The article is really about the physiology of developing a skill. Initially the brain uses a lot of resources to understand the task and ultimately it develops low energy efficient pathways to deal with the task. I wonder if that's what learning is.... an inside-your-brain mini natural selection where the brain selects for low energy pathways over high energy ones, as long as the cognitive strategies are successful. The resulting neuronal paths have reduced the task most effectively.
- echonull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ack, edit timer expired....
Well, here's an interview with the guy who did the Tetris study:
http://abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s206232.htm
I won't spam the page with the full text, just do a find on the interview for "what sort of memory loss did they have?"
Those with a Science subscription should be able to find the original article here:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/290/5490/350?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Stickgold&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT - soulpiercer7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wario's Woods for the NES has got to be the most addicting puzzle game I have ever played. You have the traditional jar in which the things fall into but this time, you control Toad running around inside of this "jar" trying to arrange similarly colored creature like blocks and bombs in rows or columns. You can pick up stacks and drop them down either to your side or underneath you. Running around trying to destroy all of these blocks with the ceiling constantly lowering on you in intense. I hope I described that well enough...
here's the link from wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wario%27s_Woods I unlocked it on Animal Crossing so I never actually played the original.
After I played it a while my brain couldn't stop. Every time I would close my eyes I would see it there. It haunted my dreams. I can't play that game anymore. Every time I play it it ensnares me and I can't get it out of my head for a long time. - merreborn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any time you do something repetitive for hours on end, it will affect you.
- Skanadian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Someone needs to create a story about this.
"Digg's Oldest Article - 12 year old article posted on Digg gets dugg over 500 times" - thep1mp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11994, i graduated from high school and went to boot camp in 1994. LOL
- Falldog, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I find Tetris is pretty useful for getting half of my brain to concentrate on an important matter without the other half distracting it with random thoughts. It’s also been useful at getting my mind off of negative events that have impacted my world.
- joeshlub, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Not to be a whiner, but this article is so old. Like, 12 years old. That doesn't make it any less interesting.
- shrewdape, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I totally agree... 12 years is really pushing it. And sorry, but how interesting is it? There's no analysis... just anecdote. Not that there weren't a lot of Tetris addicts upon a time... in fact I think I'll go find a flash version online somewhere. If I only had a purple couch, now.
- raindog469, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I was walking to get coffee one day at a client site and walked by a long row of sunflowers planted as a street decoration. And no lie, I thought to myself without a drop of irony, "I wonder which one will give me the blue coin if I spray it."
You guessed it, that was the summer Super Mario Sunshine came out. - DesolataX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1When I picked up Tetris for DS, that brought back so many memories... I played Tetris DS for so many hours, My A button isn't nearly as sensitive as the other because of so much rotating. Every night, I had dreams of tetraminos, they were stuck in my head, even during lectures, I would play tetris in my head with drawings on the boards. It was like a curse, but i loved it.
Damn you Tetris, I love you...
Damnit, now I want to play Tetris, Thanks alot digg. - Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This reminds me of how I installed emacs on the school's computer and used it just for Tetris...
Hahaha, the teachers never knew a thing.
"What's this emacs thing? Oh, a text editor? Whatever..." - masterkang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's only addicting if you're good at it...
Other than that, you see people bashing their console, computer, calculator, or whatever they're using to play it on the floor in three minutes.
Well, it's addicting enough if the only choices you have are paper football and tetris in the middle of Physics. - tigerkt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ah! it's hypnotic!
- demodawid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I see lumines' blocks falling in my head after playing for too long, too...
- fireboat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm sure it's a fine story, but neither of my two computers will properly load the page.... Anyone else have that problem?
- JayD16, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I can't play katamari anymore....This take way too long to stop rolling after I'm done.
- LEDDY, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If i play tetris on ds a LOT before bed i have dreams of tetris.... pretty lame aye
- u8myfoood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1hey... tetris is what got me through high school math...
TY ti-84 - rhesuspieces00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1May 1994?! I didn't even get an internet connection until 1996.
- echonull, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I can't dig up a reference at the moment, but the same thing generally happens to people who focus in on the game for a few hours near bedtime. Interestingly, it even occurs for people with continuous short-term memory loss a la Memento. They won't be able to tell you what they were doing before bed yesterday, nor will they recall having ever heard of Tetris, but they will tell you they dreamt of combined chunks of blocks falling and spinning to make walls or some similar description of the gameplay experience.
Blast, where was that stupid psych article..... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1lol, world of warcraft stats for me. X-D
- shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1@skywake
When i was little i would be walking around the music of the mario II for gameboy... - shinynew, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1meh i have it, i play it sometimes its not _that_ great, nothing compared to lumius.
- Thunderrock, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1AKA the Meteos effect.
- thesixthdesign, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Tetris isn't 'that addicting that I would stop working.
It's more something I would do if I was utterly bored and had the tetris game with me.
.. in my humble opinion and experience.
=) - Hindu_Wardrobe, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I've been playing waaay too much SNES SimCity on the Wii Virtual Console... whenever I close my eyes, I see roads...
- SuperADAM, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0It's like video gambling without any of the potential benefits...
- trip9, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1It's all about meteos...
- sterling1989, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Yeah like screwing your Mom. I can't get her butter face out of my head.
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