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?
I read a post shared on here somewhere the other week about this that might have note info for those curious https://biggieblog.com/celebrating-the-first-nes-tetris-game-crash/
Interesting read!
Here’s a really fascinating video that explains the various NES Tetris controller techniques, including rolling, the new technique that’s radically changed the way the game is played the last few years.
https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU&listen=false someone made a bit of a minidoc on this for people outside of the tetris scene, it brought me all the way up to speed and was well made!
Thanks for sharing! I ended up following it up with the video this creator did on BluScutti and this top comment from BluScutti himself genuinely made me tear up a bit:
“Amazing video scout! Its amazing to be in one of your videos since your videos are what got me into the Tetris scene in the first place.”
Just fucking cool
It’s worth checking out the player Fractal, who does stream on YouTube. I would consider him a pioneer in rolling.
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 somehow managed to write palette wrong twice in two different ways. I salute you.
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.
I get the sentiment but just in case you wanted to know there is a small grey link at the bottom of that box that says Continue for now or something. It will allow you to read the article.
I noticed that a lot of websites use this particular plugin/service to detect adblockers and they all have this feature which is good for now.
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
How the turetables
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A ture gamer
ture dat
I hope Wozniak sends this kid a congratulatory card or something.
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.
It’s crazy living in a time when “first human to ______” is a normal headline.
