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Play A Life-Sized Tetris Using DDR

Get down with your favorite 80s video game while practicing your dance moves.

Tetris is one of the most acclaimed games of all time. Not surprisingly, it’s one of those beloved games of yesteryear that we see reinvented by today’s artists time and time again, much like its 80s brethren, Super Mario Bros. and Pac Man. And now Alpert Russell and Leah Cohen, two MIT students, give us the latest in Tetris innovation: a life-size Tetris/Dance Dance Revolution mash-up.

In the new version of the game, the DDR dance pad controller is connected to a computer and an LED screen displaying the falling Tetris cubes. Using your feet to direct the falling blocks via the directional arrows of the dance pad, you get to practice your dance moves and your construction skills all at once! The equipment was designed by Andrew Carlson, and anybody can get the program's source code on the team’s GitHub page.