_________________________________________ / ``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.'' | | | | 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.'' | | | | 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. / ----------------------------------------- \ . _ . \ |\_|/__/| / / \/ \ \ /__|O||O|__ \ |/_ \_/\_/ _\ | | | (____) | || \/\___/\__/ // (_/ || | || | ||\ \ //_/ \______// __ || __|| (____(____) |