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Rude Tetris

Anyone remember a freeware/shareware Tetris game that would shout rude things at you while playing and occasionally give you really strange pieces to throw your game off? When you'd start a new game it would play a sound clip from the 80's movie Wargames (the computer going "Shall... we... play... a... game"). A lot of the other sounds were apparently the author's voice, swearing at you or otherwise being a jerk.

I'm trying to remember what this was called, and see if anyone has a copy. It was called "___ Tetris" I think. I'm pretty sure it wasn't Evil Tetris or Rude Tetris, but it was something along those lines.

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It is "Randall Cook's Tetris" aka "Obnoxious Tetris" aka "Wesleyan Tetris". Awesome game. The author (unfortunately) did a pretty good job at making sure all copies be removed from the internet.
This being said I have my own copy that I've been playing since the 90s... I'd be happy to upload it if this is acceptable by Macintosh Garden's policy standard. You guys let me know.

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http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=47&id=4261

Wesleyan Tetris USED to be available from mac.archives.umich.edu...
not anymore, however. We received a message from Robert Cook,
the author, saying verbatim: "This game is gonna be commercial, I never
meant for it to be released". I trashed our copies immediately.

Robert did a good job with the game and I was pretty p.o.'ed that somebody
sent it to the archive as "freeware", when it was actually too polished
to really be free. I hope he re-releases it as shareware (with
appropriate notices)... why not ask him.. his address is:
RCO...@eagle.wesleyan.edu

If you have a copy.. welllll.. I hope that you would get a real version
of Wesleyan Tetris and delete the one you got from our site.

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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/macintosh/games-faq/section-18.html

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On a more optimistic and somewhat recent note (5 years old instead of 20 years since the posts referred to above):

http://originalsupertris.blogspot.com/

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^^^ that hasn't been updated in five years. I'm sure it's probably abandonware now more than ever.