Some teachers might feel uneasy when they see the use of personal pronouns and class debate blended into formal essays. Until this last year, I was one of those teachers. I marked kids down. I guided them away from this kind of writing, thinking that it was too casual and not persuasive...
Forgotten great inventors #2: Alexey Pajitnov– Tetris If you are old enough to have been at least 10 year old in the 80’s you know what Tetris is all about, and you might even remember the phenomenon that the game has created world-wide. The addictive computer game was invented by vi...
Tetris is played in an empty rectangle(矩形)on a screen. Shapes fall into the empty rectangle. These shapes are called Tetriminos. Each shape is made up of four equal squares. Tetris is one of the best-selling video games of all time. It was created by a Russian computer engineer named...
After leaving the Skaftafell area we headed further up the east coast by way of the lobster capital of Iceland – Höfn. This was one of the few occasions we forwent the pre-packed sandwich or plain spaghetti in favour of a grown-up meal at a restaurant. And it was well worth it. ...
Inventor of Tetris.Category: Engineer, Inventor, Manager, and Writer Allen DumontAmerican scientist best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube for use in television receivers.Category: Founder, Inventor, Manager, Scientist, and Writer
Tetris done right. This is Kit’s Coty House, or The House of the Dead, a six thousand year old burial chamber. This thing was two thousand years old when the last of the mammoths died. It’s one thousand years older than the Egyptian empire. It’s old. You get the idea. From ...
The game was created by a Russian computer engineer named Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. He was inspired(启发) by his favorite board game Pentominos and he designed the game just for fun. The game became popular almost as soon as it hit the market. In 1996, Pajitnov set up the Tetris Company...
The Pac-Man tie bestowed upon GCC’s staffers by Midway in 1981.Photo courtesy of Steve Golson Golson:I flew in with the prototype kit. Kevin, Doug, and I go off to see the folks at Midway, including Marofske and Stan Jarocki, who was the head of marketing. They brought in...
The Game Boy was Nintendo’s second venture into handheld video gaming and found immediate success,selling over 1 million unitswithin weeks of its 1989 release. The small gaming system, which came packaged with the wildly popular Tetris, combined elements from Nintendo’s NES gaming console and ...
When I was learning Chinese characters, I used a fun app (trainchinese) which is designed like a tetris game: in order to score you have to get the stroke order right! Very addictive 😉 Reply Moni August 13, 2020 at 1:41 am That’s great! Thanks for letting me know! I will ...