This post is pretty vacuous

Mark appears to know me better than one might have thought. For the benefit of anyone who hasn't been following the saga, Mark is on a seemingly endless business trip (going into month 3...). Sometimes they are kind and let him come home on weekends.

This past weekend was one of those weekends, and he came back bearing gifts. In particular, a copy of the just-released Tetris for my Nintendo DS. It took me years, but I had managed to break my Tetris addiction once and for all at around the time my old black and white gameboy became little more than a paperweight. Alas, all of that hard work is gone now that Tetris comes in a colored version with more kinds of gameplay, and WiFi connection.


Yes, the DS comes complete with WiFi capabilities, and Tetris is one of the early games to take advantage of this. Being WiFi enabled means that any time I have my DS near a wireless network (these days, that could be as close as your nearest McDonald's, Starbucks or bookstore if you choose carefully), I can connect to the network and play Tetris against randomly selected opponents from around the globe. I have yet to decide whether this makes the new era of gaming more or less social. You're given the opportunity to play against people from all over the world, but you can do so while lounging on the couch in your pajamas if you feel like it.

Either way, I have been very pleased to be in possession of one of my favorite childhood games again. It makes it so much better that I don't have to beg people to play anymore; I can just log on and play to my heart's content!

(If this post makes no sense to you, Tetris is a handheld computer puzzle game. You can read all about it here!)