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Physician
United States4146 Posts
I am so darn sick of negative news on gaming that I am going to start posting all the positive news I find on the matter here in the general forum. See it as armament against anti-gamers and the likes. Might come in useful too when you have to justify that 18 hour binge on whatever game took your fancy lately..
This one is a tepid start, but a start anyway:
Playing the video game 'Tetris' could reduce trauma, claim Oxford University
link to news post here
Basically it says: British researchers found that playing the popular computer game shortly after the trauma helped wipe out the bad memories and reduce distressing flashbacks. The psychologists from Oxford University believe the discovery could lead to new treatments for accident victims in hospitals as well as those involved in war zones. This is only a first step in showing that this might be a viable approach to preventing post traumatic stress disorder,' said Dr Emily Holmes of the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University, who led the work.
That's some odd Tetris that news used in their picture lol..
Since there are just so many benefits to gaming I will try and seldom post these as I don't want to flood this forum section. I am not surprised they used Tetris, it's really one of my old time favorites.
Download free legal Tetris : )
http://sourceforge.net/search/?type_of_search=soft&words=tetris
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I just played tetris for the past 2 hours
I feel alot better now
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Studies have shown that playing Tetris before falling asleep will increase the chances of dreaming of Tetris. There's several studies about tetris and keeping you awareness up to par as well. I don't understand why tetris is the perfect game for everything!
Edit: Which one did you download Physician so we can compare scores and hopefully I can brag :D
Edit: Here's a website that requires no download.
http://www.freetetris.org/
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lol cool, gaming FTW
idk if its just me but if I stare at the tetris picture in the op's post for a long time I start to see a figure but I can't make out what it is.
am I on crack or can other people make something out is they stare at the pick for a long time?
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I played tetris once for six straight hours, and then I was seeing tetris shapes in EVERYTHING it was scary.
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I like playing Tetris DS before I go to bed if I'm bored.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
On January 25 2009 14:14 Sins wrote:
Studies have shown that playing Tetris before falling asleep will increase the chances of dreaming of Tetris. There's several studies about tetris and keeping you awareness up to par as well. I don't understand why tetris is the perfect game for everything!
Edit: Which one did you download Physician so we can compare scores and hopefully I can brag :D don't know yet, been looking for others too, can't make up my mind since I was looking something closest to the original one
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On January 25 2009 14:23 Butigroove wrote:
I played tetris once for six straight hours, and then I was seeing tetris shapes in EVERYTHING it was scary.
Truth. I used to play it every day on the subway on my way to classes. The thought of 4-block shapes falling down at high speeds dominated my thoughts for days at a time. Good times...
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having fun = good for you, and you have fun when you play video games
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On January 25 2009 14:23 KO_SharpMind wrote:
lol cool, gaming FTW
idk if its just me but if I stare at the tetris picture in the op's post for a long time I start to see a figure but I can't make out what it is.
am I on crack or can other people make something out is they stare at the pick for a long time?
I saw letters for a little bit
Man and playing it on calculator was the best
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Tetris just pisses me off.
Go play online tetris on www.iminlikewithyou.com (its called blockles)...its aggravating T_T
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I play the version on Neave Games called N-Blox. It's basically tetris.
Ever since I quit starcraft about 2 years ago, I don't play any other video games except tetris.
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I've had three or four times when my friends and I get completely addicted to tetris for a few months. It makes its resurgence every now and then. We play on tetrinet / blocktrix -- very fast, straightforward and simple, customizable hotkeys (oh, also has special items like on blockles). I definitely have had dreams about tetris, and also I remember at work sometimes I just see shapes in the room fitting together.
If anyone wants to play over blocktrix, shoot me a PM. I play at around 60 bpm.
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Tetris was the best cell-phone game I've ever bought.
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I've had a few tetris dreams but what's worst is sometimes I play in my head hahah
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theres a tetris game on facebook and im pretty effin well trained!
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Katowice25012 Posts
I've wanted to do this study for years 
We have known forever that concentrating intently on something can keep your mind off trauma, and let you process it in a healthy manner. We know video games are one way of capturing people's complete attention and engaging multiple parts of the brain for very exact measures of time, why not combine the two and see if the results are positive?
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i played tetris for like 5hrs straight. fucking intense.
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i dont know what kind of people they are but tetris is pretty stressful, the whole time wondering when will you fail, where is the next block going to go, will your whole existence be a failure because you cant find a spot for the next stupid block
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On January 25 2009 14:37 passby20 wrote:Show nested quote +On January 25 2009 14:23 Butigroove wrote:
I played tetris once for six straight hours, and then I was seeing tetris shapes in EVERYTHING it was scary. Truth. I used to play it every day on the subway on my way to classes. The thought of 4-block shapes falling down at high speeds dominated my thoughts for days at a time. Good times...
I have images of zeal-goon armies running through my head sometimes. All bad.
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EPT![[image loading]](http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a45/CorpseBride75/tetris.jpg)
