For ages now, the Tetris has been one of the most loved building blocks game and now Drexel University Prof. Frank Lee has taken his love for the game a notch higher (or what we'd like to call 49-stories and 400 plus feet higher).
You can now play a game of Tetris on two sides of the Cira Center Building in Philadelphia! The feat has earned Prof. Frank lee another world record for the "largest architectural video game display," according to CBC News.
Lee and two other colleagues designed a computer program that recreated the game using more than 1,400 LED lights on the southern and northern side of the skyscraper's glass façade. The two digital sides take up almost 100,000 square feet of the glass panels. The game is played using a joystick from about a mile away.
So basically, this feels like playing just another game of Tetris on a gigantic, gargantuan level. What's more? The eliminated lines are added to your game board!
Watch the video below to experience the game:
The World's largest Tetris game was part of the Philly Tech Week, 2014. Last year, Lee held a "Pong" tournament on the building for the same event. Lee said that the structure's amazing light matrix inspired him and he had been dreaming of designing games on the building since 2008.
The Pong tournament on the Cira Building - for which he earned a place in the Guinness Book of World Records for the first time - was well received, but with the Tetris game, he beats his own record.
"I'm delighted that we were able to earn this recognition once again," PC magazine quoted Lee.
"More so than breaking a record, my goal with this project was to unite the people of the city of Philadelphia around a public art installation. To give them a shared experience and inspire them to think about how a building can be more than just a building and, by extension, how the city can be much more than just a bunch of buildings and people sharing the same space," he added.
The Tetris was invented June 1984 and has sold about 170 million copies worldwide in the last three decades.
You can also play the "Game of Life" or "Life" as it is popularly known in real life on an island in Japan, which is being converted to resemble the board game completely!
