I really never got a lot of wind from the Tetris community. Like I knew the game was still out there and played, there are new versions of it … but some time this last year this 3 hour (made up number) documentation on Tetris world records popped up in my feed and it was surprisingly interesting and featured people reaching milestones in Tetris and explaining what milestones there are and all the bugs and stuff, techniques to use the controller… super interesting. I think it was because of that boy getting a game crash. Then a few weeks later new documentary, another kid absolutely BLASTED the score record after learning the new technique and reached that weird hundreds of lines long level. And now just a few months later, blam someone went through the entirety of it and got a reset.
Game is like 40 years old (the nintendo version anyway), haven’t really heard any big fuzz about it in all those years and out of freaking nowhere the game just got broken WIDE OPEN within a year.
And all this due to some dude sitting down and thinking about how to be able to control the game fast enough to play on the “death screen” (which makes the name rebirth even cooler). Some guy just invented tapping and unlucked the secret levels of Tetris 35+ years after it got released.
So freaking cool to witness all this even as someone who hasn’t really touched Tetris since o.g. Game Boy times
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Ha. I did something like that back in middle school on windows95. Score maxed out and started running backwards down to zero again and then back up. Final score didn’t look impressive at all. Felt like the game kind of broke.
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From what I read elsewhere, they had to patch(mod?) the game to do so.
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I really never got a lot of wind from the Tetris community. Like I knew the game was still out there and played, there are new versions of it … but some time this last year this 3 hour (made up number) documentation on Tetris world records popped up in my feed and it was surprisingly interesting and featured people reaching milestones in Tetris and explaining what milestones there are and all the bugs and stuff, techniques to use the controller… super interesting. I think it was because of that boy getting a game crash. Then a few weeks later new documentary, another kid absolutely BLASTED the score record after learning the new technique and reached that weird hundreds of lines long level. And now just a few months later, blam someone went through the entirety of it and got a reset.
Game is like 40 years old (the nintendo version anyway), haven’t really heard any big fuzz about it in all those years and out of freaking nowhere the game just got broken WIDE OPEN within a year.
And all this due to some dude sitting down and thinking about how to be able to control the game fast enough to play on the “death screen” (which makes the name rebirth even cooler). Some guy just invented tapping and unlucked the secret levels of Tetris 35+ years after it got released.
So freaking cool to witness all this even as someone who hasn’t really touched Tetris since o.g. Game Boy times
Ha. I did something like that back in middle school on windows95. Score maxed out and started running backwards down to zero again and then back up. Final score didn’t look impressive at all. Felt like the game kind of broke.