Watch: Philadelphia Shares Your Pain of a Poorly Placed Tetris Z-Block

Watch: Philadelphia Shares Your Pain of a Poorly Placed Tetris Z-Block
4/7/2014
Updated:
7/18/2015

The city of Philadelphia is just like you. When a Drexel University professor turned the Cira Centre into a 100,000-square-foot game of Tetris, residents of the city of brotherly love shared in the elation of a 4-line clear and the disappointment of ruining everything with those Z and S blocks.

Associate Professor of Digital Media Frank Lee set up the game using hundreds of LEDs in advance of Tetris’ 30th birthday.

In the clip, things seem to be going well with a good clear, but everything goes wrong after one misplaced drop and the game’s increasing speed.

But any pain accompanying the eventual loss is probably tempered by the fact that a 29-story screen (with color!) beats out my old Game Boy (and TI-83 Plus).