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netris review by jboy 12-Dec-04


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/ ``Tetris,'' tells us Vadim Gerasimov,   \
| one of the game's inventors, ``is a     |
| popular game developed in 1985--86      |
| [...] at the Computer Center of the     |
| Russian Academy of Sciences.''          |
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| Tetris by its very nature is a          |
| non-competitive game, or at least one   |
| in which, as in golf, one competes only |
| against oneself. Ronald Reagan would    |
| probably have said, ``By gad, ain't     |
| that just typical of the evil empire!   |
| They don't understand the true value of |
| competition.''                          |
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| Along came Mark Weaver, who wrote       |
| Netris. Netris combines the harmless    |
| intellectual challenge of Tetris with   |
| the supposedly primal instinct of man   |
| to prey on his fellow man. It's the     |
| good old American way. No longer is the |
| player in the solitary confinement of   |
| his or her mind's Gulag. No longer      |
| isolated from the outside world. No,    |
| the player of Netris is ready to win,   |
\ ready to succeed, ready to CONSUME.     /
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