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'Hatetris' Provides a Block-Dropping Beatdown

by Warren Riddle on April 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM

Hateris is a tough Tetris'Tetris' celebrated its 25th birthday last fall, and the milestone event coincided with a reassuring scientific study (for chronic geometric gamers, at least). The experiment, conducted by the Mind Research Network, indicated that extensive block-dropping puzzle action can actually "improve critical thinking, planning skills, reasoning and even language."

Those educational and cognitive benefits will be sorely needed for 'Tetris' fans who attempt to play, or suffer through, Sam Hughes's 'Hatetris,' inspired by webcomic xkcd. The aptly named "game" forces players, or victims, to deal with a nearly impossible series of blocks, including a seemingly unceasing string of the dreaded "S" shapes. Proving the ridiculous difficulty of 'Hatetris' is the fact that Hughes, the creator himself, apparently only cleared five lines in his best outing. Achieving an otherwise meager 10-line victory actually places a player among the game's elite block conquerors.

After you're done with 'Hatetris,' if you haven't put your fist through your monitor, you may want to decompress with a soothing round of unaltered 'Tetris.' It has, after all, been shown to help relieve post-traumatic stress disorder. [From: Boing Boing]

Tags: flash games, FlashGames, funny, hatetris, tetris, tetris-online, tetris-party-deluxe, TetrisEvolution, timewasters, top, videogames, xkcd

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