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Playing Tetris Is Good For You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wow-still-causes-cancer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some UK researchers found out that playing Tetris is actually good for people with post-traumatic stress disorder, by interfering with memory. I wonder if playing Minesweeper is effective against boss-inflicted stress."

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  1. Microsoft Tetris by tepples · · Score: 3, Informative

    You're obviously not talking about the NES version, so which one are you referring to?

    Microsoft's ancient port of Tetris to Windows 3.1 used a type equivalent to int16_t for the player's score. Certainly Tetramino for NES can track up to 6.5 million points, and Lockjaw can track up to 2 billion.

  2. Re:Great! by Masami+Eiri · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Gameboy one was always the go-to version for me.