MIT Students Turn Campus Building Into Playable Tetris Game

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long (long) history of student “hacks,” harmless but clever pranks. Several tend to show up in any given year. Previous reasonably recent favorites (of mine) include turning a building into The One Ring, flying Nyan Cat through a lobby, and an upside-down lounge(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c&cid=872d12ce-453b-4870-845f-955919887e1b'; cnx.cmd.push(function() { cnx({ playerId: "995c4c7d-194f-4077-b0a0-7ad466eb737c" }).render("79703296e5134c75a2db6e1b64762017"); }); The students’ newest adventure brought larger-than-life video games to campus, winner55 as the gridded shape of the side of the Green Building proved irresistable for a game of Tetris. The game ww winner55 was fully playable, with three levels that got progressively harder over time. Alas, the video reminds us of the eternal truth of Tetris: even if สมัคร winner55 เครดิตฟรี​ you program it yourself, to run down the side of a building, you never can get the long piece when you really need it. MIT Completes the “Holy Grail of Hacks,” Turning the Green Building into a Game of Tetris [BostInno, via Mashable]