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Nerd of Mouth

Tetris

Nerd of Mouth

The Last Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Leisure, Video Games

4.7649 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Travel back to 1984 Soviet Russia with Holden and Jake and uncover the incredible true story behind one of the world's most popular and influential games. Can't get enough WizBru? Support us on our Patreon to get access to bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/wizbru

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody, it's your L-shaped

0:17.8

Holden-McNeely.

0:20.3

I am a line piece.

0:21.9

You need me to win this dumb game.

0:24.0

You need me for your life.

0:25.9

It's a touch.

0:26.5

I just kidding.

0:27.6

It's another S-piece.

0:29.3

You don't need me.

0:30.8

You are fucked.

0:32.1

Oh, my goodness, Jake.

0:33.8

And you are, of course, the wizard Jake.

0:36.4

Peace, not a line piece. You are the wizard Jake. Never going to get that fucking piece. Fuck, really? We'll never get the piece. Everybody welcome. It's the Tetris episode of Wizard and the Brewser. And I have to say this right off the bat. I was the person who pushed really hard for this,

0:55.0

and it's because I've been playing the fuck out of Puyo Puyo Tettur's lately.

0:58.2

It's a fantastic game, by the way, on the Switch, and I've been playing it like crazy with Lexi, and I suggest you get it and you play it with Marie. We've been having so much fun, and I said, Jake, why don't we do a Tetris episode?

0:51.8

We were talking about doing different video game series,

0:53.9

and I was like, that feels like we should be doing one of those.

0:57.6

And then as soon as I walked away from you, I said, oh, fuck, have I made a horrible mistake? Is it going to be possible to do a full episode on Tetris? Or will we find that it's some shallow ass well of no fun information? I'm going to say this right now. This is amazing. Tetris is so

1:29.4

fascinating, Jake. This is honestly the most fun I've had doing research for an episode in

1:35.0

months. Yeah. Everything has layers upon layers, just like digging through each name we're

1:41.0

going to hear in this story goes like so much deeper. And like the fact

1:45.9

that this game exists to this day, you know, there's, it's, it's almost hackneyed whenever like

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