A 13-year-old is the first human to beat Tetris | Numerous theoretical milestones remain::undefined
Apparently the kid’s dad died last month. Reckon the story makes a whole lot more sense with that in mind.
Wow that’s really cool - so looks like it could actually help with the ol’ trauma there?
How does one beat Tetris?
This person did it by playing it until it crashed. There are several points where particular actions will crash the game.
I would argue though that to beat Tetris you would need to beat level 255, at which point the level counter wraps to level 0
There was a 73% chance at the level it crashed that any single line clear would have caused it and the percentage only goes up from there. That is why there are theoretically more that could be accomplished since there is still a chance it won’t crash but is very unlikely.
I reckon completing level 255 isn’t going to happen for human players on the NES. They are pushing the input hardware beyond it’s design to play the levels they’re at now, and also crashes become more common at higher levels making a clean run to 255 even harder
Don’t underestimate the gaming community. Once people get more comfortable with reaching higher levels someone will develope a strategy.
If you look into it, the only limiting factor are the colour pallets glitching out, after level 29 it does t become any faster, but at a certain point the palates were causing hard points as one level named charcoal was barely visible.
You play it until it breaks
Seems like it would be a bug in the original game then. It can be fixed.
Many old arcade games have this, and they are called “kill screens”. There is no programmed “end” to the game, you just keep playing until it runs out of memory, and then just goes all wonky. Some examples: https://gamerant.com/most-infamous-kill-screens-in-video-games/
Game rant went ahead and fully blocked access if you’re using an adblocker? Guess I don’t care enough about their articles to unblock, but still annoying.
Seemed to work for ublock origin on Firefox mobile.
But then it wouldn’t be the original game anymore
A ture gamer
Turer words have never been said
You’re speaking the turth
Almost like a turthseeker, so turt.
Defo turing-complete
A ture gamer
ture dat
I hope Wozniak sends this kid a congratulatory card or something.
Why Wozniak?
Why not?
You wouldn’t love a nice acknowledge from uncle Woz?
I hope Matthew McConaughey sends him one.
He use to be really good at it afaik.
Wozniak was obsessed with Tetris, and would send his high scores to Nintendo Power Magazine.
Eventually, since nobody was able to touch his scores, Nintendo Power asked him to stop, so he (Steve Wozniak) started submitting them as “Evets Kainzow”, and at least one of his scores was printed under that name.
So, yeah, he has a history as a (the?) Top human player of Tetris in an age past.
poor little guy nearly had a heart attack…
I beat it on gameboy in the early 90s. Is that a different Tetris than the one mentioned here?
Had to wait until the day after to share with my friends at school
It’s the NES version, all speedruns are made on that version.
