Tetris, such an old dig and people still can’t rest. They’re still trying to get what they can out of the old but fair fire. And as it seems, there is still a lot.
At the beginning of the year, we wrote about the fact that Tetris should never have been completed, but it was. For a better understanding of the current record, I recommend reading the news, because then you will learn about the problems and limits that players encountered and what tricks they have to use while playing. There is still a large community around Tetris and all records and attempts so far are being made on the NES version. And the original finish was considered to be when the game “bricked” in the very late levels, that is, it simply froze. However, the robots were able to reach the last level 255, but not the human. And that was also the rhetorical question in the above-mentioned news item. Can humans do it too?
We didn’t have to wait that long for an answer, just a few months. Only 16-year-old maniac Michael “dogplayingtetris” Artiaga denied himself, crushed Tetris for an hour and forty, and finally reached and surpassed the mythical level 255, and Tetris then reset to level zero. And the brave young man continued for another forty minutes and created a record score of 29.4 million points. However, it should be mentioned that Michael played a modified version that does not suffer from jams, but then another problem appeared – the levels started to get longer. It takes ten lines to clear a level of cubes, but the young man had to destroy 3,300 of them to finish the game. In level 235, he even had to spend 20 minutes before removing 800 almost invisible blocks (the game also suffers from graphics errors in later levels). In short, one way or another, it’s a directly heroic performance. Tetris fans have a new meta.
Source: pctuning.cz
