Tetris which was a popular block-puzzle game from back in the day was played on a 29-stories high skyscraper by gamers in Philadelphia. This was to mark 30 years of its introduction by game designer Henk Rogers, then as now managing director of The Tetris Company in Hawaii. The video game was developed by Alexey Pajitnov of Russia, but Rogers was the one who helped it to shoot to world fame in the late 1980s, when he noted that Tetris at a conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, acquired the rights and to put it on Nintendo’s original Game Boy.
Tetris was played on Brandywine Realty Trust’s Cira Centre, which is in downtown Philadelphia on Saturday evening and it was to celebrate the anniversary celebrations being held during the Philly Tech Week. Various events will be held during this week to highlight cool technology, such as video games. Drexel University’s Entrepreneurial Game Studio’s Head Frank Lee, was the man behind the giant-sized Tetris that was played on the skyscraper. He created the working edition of the giant-sized game through a device that controlled the LED lights of the 29-story tower.
Lee not a stranger to creating video games of this magnitude. In 2013 he created one of the largest games in the world at 59,800 square feet, when he made a working adaptation of another popular game Pong, an electronic version of Atari’s 1972 paddleball. Pong had been created as a part of promotions for the Philadelphia Museum of Art and had also been displayed on another building in Philadelphia.
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