Better squares than L-tets, S-tets, T-tets, or I-tets.

Off topic, but while we are discussing Tetris:

Brawl Stage of the Week: It's Tetris time

Posted May 6th 2008 4:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Brawl Stage of the Week

Last week we mentioned that we wanted to feature a DS-related stage. Reader Chris stepped up and sent us two Tetris levels, one of which we chose to feature.

Called "Sziltoj 2," this stage is meant to represent "a Tetris game in progress," according to Chris. Considering the limited amount of tools that you're given in the stage builder, we think he pulled this off pretty well. Come check out how after the break!

Sziltoj 2 by Chris L.

As you can see from the picture above, the Tetris blocks were made with different colored stage pieces so that each familiar shape stands out. All the blocks from the classic title are accounted for at the bottom, aside from the coveted long bar.

Chris added the long block up top, though (depicted in our gallery), which was built by falling boxes to represent Tetris in motion. Evoking the essence of the bar slowly dropping downward by using falling pieces is a simple, but clever idea.

Since Sakurai didn't give us an official stage themed with one of our favorite puzzle games, we have no qualms about brawling on this one.

Gallery: Brawl Stage of the Week: Sziltoj 2

1. Download the file
2. Save it to an SD card in the following location:

• US versions of Brawl: \private\wii\app\RSBE\st\st_080419_1807.bin
• Japanese versions of Brawl: \private\wii\app\RSBJ\st\st_080419_1807.bin

3. Put the SD card with the file on it in your Wii and start up Brawl
4. During the stage selection, click "Melee Stages" in the bottom-right corner
5. Then click "Custom Stages" in the bottom-right corner and choose the custom stage you want to play on (this particular stage is called "Sziltoj 2.")

Still don't get it? Not sure how to send in your own creation? Other questions on the stage feature? Just email smashsubs@nintendowiifanboy.com

We'd very much like to see some of your contributions and suggestions, so send them in to smashsubs@nintendowiifanboy.com. From the hard, to the ridiculous, to the incredibly awesome, to the even more ridiculous, make sure to show us your favorites (and your own creations)!

You've just read our Stage of the Week feature, in which we showcase some of our favorite reader-submitted Smash Bros. Brawl stages. If you're interested in seeing the previous Stage of the Week, just click here!

I call them "pieces"

@radioioRobert.... wow...it's beautiful!

The correct term is indeed "tetrads", although most people refers to them as blocks or pieces. I know I do.

The individual tetrads are usually refered to by the letters they resemble: T, J, L, Z, S, I, and... the square tetrad, which doesn't look like a letter (maybe an O, but I've never seen it called that).

Off Topic: When does that WiiWare Tetris game arrive? I'm looking forward to that...

Tetris comes from
TETRAS (τετράς) = older Greek for a collection of four,
also TETRAD from Tetrad(a) (τετράδα) = modern Greek for a group of four
and TETRIS, TETRA, TETRAS & TETRAD come from the Greek number 4 which is TESSERA, TESSERIS, TETARTOS (τέσσερα, τέσσερις, τέταρτος).

note: if some letters are not readable it's because they're in Greek.

Weighted geometrical figures.

I call them L or T or Z or BLOCK, etc. Basically I call them what they kinda look like.

I use the word "palikka" and after a while playing "vitun palikka". "Palikka" translates to "block" and "vittu" refers to female organ. Originally "vittu" was meaning organ that have had sexual intercourse, today the meaning still exists, but is commonly used in colourful language.

The Ghost of RubangB said: They were called Tetrads in the original Tetris manual for Game Boy and the NES. They were also called tetrads in a random zing in the NES game Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics 2, as can be seen here: At some point the switch was made from "Tetrads" to "Tetriminoes" and they are called Tetriminoes in Tetris DS. I'm not sure when the switch was made, but I remember seeing "Tetriminoes" in the manual for Tetris DS and wondering what the hell happened. Also, a quick look at Wikipedia tells me that "tetrominoes" is the original word which comes from the Greek "tetra" and "domino" but that the Tetris Company spells it with an I instead of an O. Apparently I'm the only one using either term because I'm the only person here who gives a shit about Tetris vocabulary. I'm ashamed of all of you.

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