Tetris is still a game that people play. (Read this excellent history and consideration of the game from Noah Davis.) It doesn't involve flinging bird-heads at fat pigs or shooting aliens with nuclear pistols or even trying to make a three-pointer with Monta Ellis. (The third option here is the least realistic.) It's just a bunch of blocks falling from the sky, and you have to stack them. But you know that; everyone knows that because everyone has played Tetris at some point. Seriously, at least one billion people are estimated to have played the block-arranging game. Why, then? Why is ... Read More