#33: Tetris (Microsoft, Windows, 1990) [screenshot credit to WinWorld as I failed to run it on Windows 10]

The NES version is by no means the definitive version of Tetris. It’s certainly not the version I remember playing. That would be the version for Windows from the Microsoft Entertainment Package. Although when I say that I remember playing it, this is something of a misrepresentation; what I mostly remember is watching my mother play it, and being a lot better at it than me. And this is not a memory that is uniquely associated with Tetris; though most of them will not be gracing us with their presence in this project, there are a whole lot of games from my youth where I remember watching mum play them at least as well as I remember playing them myself. I’d hope that in time, I’d have ultimately come to reject the lie that women do not play video games either way, but obviously, having seen clear evidence to the contrary for as long as I can remember must have helped me avoid falling into that particular well of toxicity. We are all shaped by our experiences, the blocks of our life falling into place.