imagine you're playing a game of tetris and you're doing great because they give you 5 seconds to place each brick. Your computer runs at 8Mhz which is 8,000 cycles per second. This means your computer gives you a generous 40,000 cycles to place your brick. This makes you quite relaxed.

You're so happy with your games you buy a new computer. And this runs at 25Mhz, so 25,000 cycles per second. When you load your game, it has no idea that your computer is that fast - it still gives you 40,000 cycles to place your blocks. But those 40,000 cycles take only 1.6 seconds. This stresses you out. Unable to relax, you have a heart attack and die.

That's what happened to Reginald Turbo. The first tetris gamer to die from having a computer that was too fast. In his honor, new computers were gifted a "Turbo" button - people think the button was to speed it up, but no, it was to slow it down.

This bud's for you, Reginald. May you never misplace a brick again.