The web's best videogame poetry

The Tetris Effect
By Tatterdemalion

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You can criticise his video directing skills, but this poem by Tatterdemalion (we're guessing that's not his real name) is probably one of the best we found. Maybe it's the soothing layers of unfolding rhythm. Perhaps its because, in Tetris, this poem nails down a game close to all our hearts.

Or, possibly, it's because 99.9% of all YouTube videos are pure, cringeworthy dross, so making the discovery of an even halfway decent poetry recital stand out like a mile-high neon signpost.

Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.