After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video] - eviltoast
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    10 months ago

    I love that the guy he was competing against saw he was live and on a good run, and watched and celebrated live with him when he reached the kill screen. Super wholesome :)

    It’s actually pretty crazy that he missed the first opportunity for a kill screen and had to go through a few additional, never before played levels before he got lucky and hit the scenario that cause the crash.

  • rdyoung@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    This isn’t the first time it’s been “beat”, I regularly got a high enough score that the gameboy would reset…

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      10 months ago

      Without knowing if the source is accurate, it’s about the NES Tetris not the Gameboy Tetris. So saying someone has beaten GB Tetris isn’t really relevant.

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        10 months ago

        Correct, but, look at the title, it says beats tetris, not which console, that’s what I was responding to. Plus if you want to be technical about it, hitting a kill screen isn’t the same as beating a game, especially with a game like tetris that in it’s original form doesn’t actually have an ending.

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        10 months ago

        I’m sure I’m not the only one. The secret was playing the extra hard mode, after that the hardest normal level was a piece of cake.

        For those who didn’t know or don’t remember, iirc you held down select while the system and then the game booted up. If you saw a heart somewhere on the screen you were in the secret harder version of the game. I could look it up but I am instead trying to plumb the depths of my memory, it’s been over 3 decades.