Bump this thread every day my Tetris PCB isn't here

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Jul 23, 2011 4:49 pm

This is day 23 or near enough to qualify.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Jul 31, 2011 11:23 pm

Let's pretend I bumped this every day since I created the thread. I was just told that I should have it on Thursday. :/

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 3:09 am

When my sister was little, we discovered that she was insanely good at doing puzzles. She and I ... our brains are just different. She could do jigsaw puzzles by simply opening the box, pulling out a piece and looking at it, and placing it on the table where it belonged. None of that "doing the border" bullshit for her. Me? I would take the pieces and try to build 3D houses out of them and stuff.

When Tetris came out and we got it for the computer, we discovered that my sister could play it forever. Like, literally, forever. She never got to a level that was too fast or too hard. And I asked her one time how she did it and she said, "I rotate the puzzle in my head to know where the pieces fit." That was so mind blowing that I never asked her anything else about the game ever again. But if there were ever a world wide Tetris battle to the death, I would bet money on my sister.

The only reason I play it at all is to hear the little end-level music and see the Russian guys come out and dance. Hee hee! Russian guys dancing! Beep-boop-bilddle-diddle-eep-deep-boop-boop .. BEEP!

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 9:52 am

BUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:36 am

You ever see these shelves?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Aug 08, 2011 10:07 pm

BUMP. I have to dispute the charge through Paypal tomorrow, to protect myself. I have 45 days and it is coming up on that. Sorry, Tetris. :(

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 10:50 pm

Okay, I gotta reverse the charges if it's not there when I get home tomorrow.

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Tue Aug 09, 2011 11:05 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:33 pm

Is that Dwarf Fortress?

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:04 am

pinback · Post by **pinback** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:16 am

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 3:46 am

pinback wrote:[People Tetris picture]

Actually, you should have picked this: [youtube][/youtube]

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:55 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Okay, I gotta reverse the charges if it's not there when I get home tomorrow.

That sucks. Was it expensive? I don't know how much a Tetris board goes for. I would think "not much" as pretty much every electronic gaming system known to man plays Tetris at this point, but you never know, it could be one of those odd/collectible ones that for some reason goes for a fortune.

Either way, sucks that it didn't arrive.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Aug 12, 2011 10:59 pm

I got valid tracking numbers yesterday so I think we're ok. It's in two packages, though.

I am going to play "guess game" where you make a guess and I tell you the answer. How much would YOU pay for a Tetris board ah fuck it.

It was $75 shipped for the board, marquee and bezel. I bet it's costing him a lot to ship the bezel. I am just gonna swap the board into my JAMMA Multi-Williams for now depending on whether or not my girlfriend is coming over. If she is = Tetris, if she is not = Robotron. Let's see if I can keep this up longer than "tidying up" before she visited lasted.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Sat Aug 13, 2011 3:06 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I am just gonna swap the board into my JAMMA Multi-Williams for now depending on whether or not my girlfriend is coming over. If she is = Tetris, if she is not = Robotron. Let's see if I can keep this up longer than "tidying up" before she visited lasted.

Translation: "Tetris" = Getting laid
"Robotron" - Jerking Off

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 6:23 pm

Tdarcos wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I am just gonna swap the board into my JAMMA Multi-Williams for now depending on whether or not my girlfriend is coming over. If she is = Tetris, if she is not = Robotron. Let's see if I can keep this up longer than "tidying up" before she visited lasted.
Translation: "Tetris" = Getting laid
"Robotron" - Jerking Off

Holy fuck. Tdarcos wrote a post that literally made me laugh out loud. Ha haha!

In other news, Tetris apparently has no freeplay mode. NNNNGHHH. I don't really want to shove quarters in there.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 7:59 pm

You could always add a "add a token" button somewhere on the cabinet. The 1984 Arcade drills holes right on the front of their cabinets. If that's not your bag, I have heard of people (a) adding buttons to the top of their cabinets, or (b) adding switches inside the coin return slots. Both of those are out of sight and shouldn't ruin the aesthetics of your cabinet.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 4:41 am

Install a slap switch near the floor so you can give it a kick and get a free play. Not only ascetically pleasing but gives a great sense of Fonzi-ness.

THE
HEYYYYYYYYY!
AARDVARK

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:50 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
Tdarcos wrote:
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I am just gonna swap the board into my JAMMA Multi-Williams for now depending on whether or not my girlfriend is coming over. If she is = Tetris, if she is not = Robotron. Let's see if I can keep this up longer than "tidying up" before she visited lasted.
Translation: "Tetris" = Getting laid
"Robotron" - Jerking Off
Holy fuck. Tdarcos wrote a post that literally made me laugh out loud. Ha haha!

In other news, Tetris apparently has no freeplay mode. NNNNGHHH. I don't really want to shove quarters in there.

I wouldn't want to shove quarters in there either. And you can probably guess what "there" is!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Aug 15, 2011 6:30 pm

Also, I am not getting any sound. Might be a cab problem. I can live without freeplay. Friends I cannot live without Tetris sound.

It's amazing to me that a game developed in a second-world pinko commie socialist paradise doesn't have freeplay, by the by.