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Tetris vision

enzo1701enzo1701
edited September 2008 in Games
I don't know if this is better suited here or in the Chit Chat section. But did anyone ever suffer what I nicknamed "Tetris-vision"?

I used to play an unlicenced block game on one of those handheld machines (?5 from a mail order company) which was Tetris in all but name, and if I'd played it a while, I would still see the blocks falling down even when watching TV afterwards, or on the bus or anything else. I'd try to control the pieces in my mind to drop into convenient shapes. Maybe it's the inbuilt "loser" in me but I still couldn't do it quick enough, even when it was an imagined game!!!

Someone commented on seeing Gauntlet played on bedroom walls in the two player thread and it reminded me of my Tetris sight. Did anyone get Tetris-vision after playing Tetris or with anything else?
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  • VincentACVincentAC
    edited September 2008
    I used to play Tetris on the GameBoy a lot when it was first out.

    I had Tetris Vision for most of my time back then - even when I was sleeping.

    I remember getting to about level 220ish on the never ending one before the batteries died.

    Can't play it worth shit now though!
    Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
    I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
    --Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)

    https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
  • DanforthDanforth
    edited September 2008
    I was the Gauntlet guy. 6am til 2pm nonstop will do that to a young gamer... I was still getting visions the next morning...

    Tetris is the only other game it happened with - the original Game Boy + Tetris was my first ever games console and its portability meant it got a lot of use... leading to the aforementioned shapes falling down walls, into the gaps between pictures and things. Unlike enzo I was pretty good at Imaginary Wall Tetris :) My best score on the actual game was 200 lines precisely, on a later-generation GB with a relatively blur-free screen.
  • chop983chop983
    edited September 2008
    You could glue Tetris into a Gameboy and you wouldn't have ruined it.
  • MrCheeseMrCheese
    edited September 2008
    I used to love playing Boulder Dash on the spectrum and used to go to bed hearing the theme tune and the slueep slueep noise the amoeba made. Damn, now I've got that tune in my head! Have to play it tonight. Love the scrolling on that game, you can play ahead if you know the levels well enough.
  • MattLambMattLamb
    edited September 2008
    My brother recalls a time he had to pull over in his car and stop, because he'd just finished a marathon session on Mario Kart on the SNES. He could see the game rather than the road itself.
  • milemile
    edited September 2008
    had it a little with F-Zero x, after a long sesh, things seemed very slowed down, and i'd see shapes moving extremly fast in my perhiperal vision.

    also goldeneye after a masive multiplayer game, i'd be going home or something, and seeing someone suddenly appear around a corner would make me jump out of my skin.

    don't play games that much in big chunks anymore. probably cos i have a job, not much time in the evening, and a gf to take up my weekend time.
  • GreenCardGreenCard
    edited September 2008
    I never had Tetris vision, but I did once go through a phase of playing The Sims way too much... So much that I'd eventually start thinking things like "oh, my energy bar is running low, I must go to bed" or "my bladder bar is low, I must go to the lav", and saying "deg-deg" when my mates left my flat.

    I'm not quite right in the head!! :D
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