Apr 16

Excavators Play Jenga with 600 Pound Blocks

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Bigger is always better, especially if you want to get the internet’s attention. This super-sized game of Jenga should get the even the most cynical netizens to take notice.
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This is Jenga on steroids. Note that call the game “Stack”, because nobody wants to get sued. The playing pieces are 600-pound blocks of wood and the players are operating five different pieces of heavy equipment to remove them. The video is a promotional video from Cat Products (Caterpillar) and you have to hand it to them, this is a great way to draw attention to their equipment.

All I know is, When that stack falls over, you’d better be standing well away from it.

[via Viral Viral Videos via Neatorama]

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Apr 15

Watch Five Giant Cat Excavators Play the World’s Biggest Game of Jenga

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Twenty-seven wooden blocks weighing 600 pounds each? That’s no regular game of Jenga—that’s a job for a team of five giant, yet agile, Cat excavators and telehandlers to take on. Just some machines having fun.

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Dec 11

Doctor Who Tumbling TARDIS Tower Game is TARDIS Jenga

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Lots of people love Jenga. You know, that game with the wood blocks, where you have to remove blocks and not let the tower collapse. Well, now there is even more reason to love the game as there’s nowa Doctor Who inspired version called the Tumbling TARDIS Tower Game.

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In the game, the wood pieces are all TARDIS’ and you play it the same way, except that its all timey-wimey and stuff. Don’t let the Doctor down and let his tower fall.

This will be a lot of fun for Doctor Who fans to play and it is only $29.99(USD) from Entertainment Earth. It will be available in January, but you can pre-order it now. Better yet, you can get in your TARDIS, transport into the future by a month, and pick one up now.

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Sep 02

Space Invaders Jenga brings new meaning to a blocky game

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space-invaders-jengaWhen you were first introduced to the world of video games, did you start off with the old school classics like Pac-Man, Asteroids and Space Invaders? If you have answered in the affirmative, there is just this particular sense of urgency that surrounds the entire level, especially when the aliens are getting way too close to the ground base, and your defenses have worn thin while you find it real hard to take aim and get rid of the advancing forces – not to mention having the music speeding up to add tension to the situation. Another equally tense game, albeit a non-electronic one, Jenga, is also a blocky game – literally. What happens when you marry Space Invaders and Jenga together? Why, you end up with the $29.95 Space Invaders Jenga, of course!

The Space Invaders Jenga brings about an arcade twist to an old classic, where this Space Invaders-themed Jenga set delivers a second type of game play. Each time you remove a block, you also happen to make an attempt to move your Invader down the tower, allowing you to “kill” them puny humans. Each of these blocks will come with an assigned action that will need to be followed through, where some of them will help, while others hurt. The winner would be the one who successfully makes it to the bottom.
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Jun 21

Jenga Didn’t Need a Space Invaders Version, But We’ll Take It

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Jenga Didn't Need a Space Invaders Version, But We'll Take It

Based on an incredibly simple concept, Jenga is one of those ‘board’ games that will never go out of style. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for branded versions that bring something new to the table. (The table that you’re trying desperately not to bump.)

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Jun 21

Jenga Space Invaders Edition: Increase Speed and Fall Over

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Just when I thought there were no more ways you could play Jenga, along comes another amusing mashup of the brick-stacking game with a classic video game.

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This time, we have USAOpoly’s Jenga Space Invaders Collectors Edition. This new version of Jenga features stackable rows of those pesky invaders. The rules are different than standard Jenga, in that you’re trying to remove blocks as spins of the wheel determine things like the rate at which the invaders are dropping down and increasing speed. The objective is to have your invader descend from the top of the tower to get as close to the bottom as possible without knocking it over.

Jenga Space Invaders edition is coming out this July 30th, and can be pre-ordered from Midtown Comics for $22.49(USD).

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Apr 02

Jenga’s Now Infinitely More Stressful With a Ticking Time Bomb

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Jenga is one of those rare games that turns an incredibly simple concept into an endlessly playable challenge. Like Tetris, checkers, or tic-tac-toe, it doesn’t need improving, but that didn’t stop Hasbro. Borrowing an idea from the classic Perfection game, Jenga Boom includes a ticking time bomb base that automatically topples the tower when the timer runs out. More »

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Jan 18

Hasbro lands deal for real-world Tetris games, brings us our L blocks this August

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Hasbro lands deal to make realworld Tetris games, brings us our L blocks this August

With all the Tetris ports we’ve seen to not-quite-digital mediums, there’s been very few truly physical games built around those seven iconic pieces. Hasbro plans to explore that final frontier shortly. It just reached a licensing deal with The Tetris Company to offer “multiple” very tangible games based on Alexei Pajitnov’s original vision. The expansion starts in August, when we’ll see a light-matching, Tetris-themed version of Bop It! and the seemingly inevitable Jenga variant. We’ll have to wait for more details, although we hope Hasbro isn’t too authentic — we’d like a few more straight pieces this time around.

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Hasbro and The Tetris Company Announce New Face-to-Face Games Based on World-Famous TETRIS (R) Video Game

JENGA, BOP IT! Get TETRIS (R) Twist for 2013

PAWTUCKET, R.I.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Today, Hasbro, Inc. (NAS: HAS) , a global leader in gaming, and The Tetris Company, LLC, the exclusive licensor of the TETRIS(R) brand, announced a licensing deal to bring TETRIS, one of the world’s most successful video game brands, into a new world of face-to-face gaming developed by Hasbro. Through this agreement, Hasbro has obtained the license to manufacture and globally market multiple face-to-face games based on the TETRIS brand.

“For almost 30 years, the TETRIS game has been played by hundreds of millions of players across nearly every mobile and video gaming platform,” said Henk Rogers, Managing Director of The Tetris Company. “We’re thrilled to be teaming up with Hasbro to expand the TETRIS brand and give our fans fun, challenging face-to-face formats to experience the ‘Tetris Effect’ in a unique way.”

“We’re looking forward to offering consumers innovative face-to-face gaming experiences that let them stack and match the TETRIS shapes like never before,” said Jonathan Berkowitz, Vice President of Marketing for Hasbro Gaming. “Now players can enjoy the challenging, social fun of two of their favorite Hasbro Gaming brands fused with the puzzle play of TETRIS.”

Hasbro will introduce two games in the fall of 2013 based on the incredibly popular TETRIS game. The new BOP IT! TETRIS(R) game tests players to match the traditional TETRIS block shaped lights as the challenges get faster and the levels go higher. Also, Hasbro’s new JENGA TETRIS(R) game will combine two of the world’s best known stacking games, challenging players to push, pull and stack the TETRIS block shapes into a JENGA tower. The games will be launching globally in August 2013.

TETRIS(R) branded products have been sold worldwide in more than 50 languages. With hundreds of millions of games sold over the last 29 years, the TETRIS brand is stronger than ever and continues its year over year growth. As many as 35 million TETRIS games are played daily online, with over 1 billion played monthly. TETRIS games are played in 95% of the world in over 185 countries.

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