--- title: Tetris 30th Anniversary: Man Creates Fully Playable Tetris Shirt description: You'll have to play the Tetris theme song separately though canonical: https://time.com/2953914/you-can-play-tetris-on-this-t-shirt/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-07-03T15:17:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:11:22.368Z og:title: You Can Play Tetris on This T-Shirt og:description: Never be bored again og:url: https://time.com/2953914/you-can-play-tetris-on-this-t-shirt/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: You Can Play Tetris on This T-Shirt twitter:description: Never be bored again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # You Can Play Tetris on This T-Shirt by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 3, 2014 3:17 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Jul 3, 2014 3:17 PM UTC You’ll never be bored again, because now there’s a shirt with a fully-functional Tetris game on it. Yup, this means you can play the classic video game right on your very own abdomen. YouTube user Marc Kerger crafted the shirt, which features 128 LEDs and an [Arduino Uno](http://arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardUno) microcontroller board, in honor of Tetris’s 30th anniversary. All that’s required to play are two AA batteries. Finally, something you can wear to complement your [Tetris-playing tie](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/05/a-tetris-tie/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2953914/you-can-play-tetris-on-this-t-shirt/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2953914/you-can-play-tetris-on-this-t-shirt/"},"headline":"You Can Play Tetris on This T-Shirt","datePublished":"2014-07-03T15:17:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:11:22.368Z","description":"You'll have to play the Tetris theme song separately though","url":"https://time.com/2953914/you-can-play-tetris-on-this-t-shirt/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Games","Technology"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2953914/you-can-play-tetris-on-this-t-shirt/","name":"You Can Play Tetris on This T-Shirt"}}]}] ```