ABOVE: It’s a game of Tetris – played over 29-stories
PHILADELPHIA – All the pieces have fallen into place for the designer of a giant Tetris game.
Drexel University professor Frank Lee has earned the Guinness World Record for largest architectural video game display. Again.
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Lee and two colleagues created a computer program to play the classic shape-fitting puzzle on two sides of a 29-story skyscraper in Philadelphia.
They used hundreds of lights embedded in the glass facades of the Cira Centre. All told, the “screens” totalled nearly 120,000 square feet (11,000 square meters).
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Dozens of Tetris enthusiasts played the supersized version in April using a joystick from about a mile (2 kilometres) away.
The record announced Tuesday beat the previous one also set by Lee. Last year, he recreated the classic Atari game Pong on a side of the same building.
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