MIT's Green Building Gets Turned Into Giant Tetris Video Game (VIDEO)

Hackers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology brought Soviet-styled 80's fun to the Boston skyline, when they turned the facade of the school's Green Building into a cascade of colored blocks gamers immediately recognize as Tetris, the Boston Globe reports.

PC World writes that although details are scarce, the stunt appears to have been pulled off with the use of LED lights.

The building is home to MIT's Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences Department. The school said it had nothing to do with the latest in a series of campus hacks. A website runs down MIT's other techno-pranks.

Students tried a similar stunt at Brown University a decade ago.

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Comments

[Sheamus Warior]

01:17 AM on 05/31/2013

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[BigBruin78]

03:00 PM on 04/27/2012

For being nerds, they aren't very good at playing Tetris!

[Matt Owens]

11:57 PM on 04/25/2012

Nerds are supposed to be making a difference and going to MIT. This is a job for stoners and slackers!

[ricchh]

06:42 PM on 04/25/2012

Brown did this like twenty years ago to the science library.

[StudentLoanList]

04:50 PM on 04/25/2012

Thats pretty amazing ! Hope that those students find a good job when they graduate so they can put that intelligence and energy into something that will benefit society.

[Gerald Larkin]

03:42 PM on 04/25/2012

Impressive! Colorful! Geeks!