Tetris

KEY

Question 1

            a) TRUE “images of Tetris shapes fell on two sides of the mirrored tower as competitors used joysticks to manoeuvre them into place”

            b) FALSE Organisers hope it inspires onlookers and players to think about the possibilities of technology.

            c) TRUE Lee, a digital media professor at Drexel University, already holds the Guinness World Record for the world's largest architectural video game display for playing Pong on one side of the Cira Centre last year.

            d) FALSE “Pong, […] was developed by Atari in 1972. 12 years later Tetris was created...“ “it became a global phenomenon in the late 1980s“

Question 2

            a) The game challenges players to rotate and arrange falling shapes into complete rows.

            b)  This project began as a personal love letter from Frank Lee, a university professor, to the games that he loved when he was a child.

Question 3

a)    embedded

b)    displays

c)    upcoming

            d)   create

            e)   deal

Question 4

            a) Colourful geometric patterns are normally displayed by the 29-floor Cira Centre at night.

            b) Lee said that that project had begun as a personal love letter to the games that he had loved but it had ended up as a way of uniting the city of Philadelphia.

            c) ) If Henk Rogers hadn't acquired the game rights,  it wouldn't have become a global phenomenon in the late 1980s.