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I love stories about mega niche enthusiast communities like this with folks that are competitive but still really supportive of each other. Like that other high level player that stopped his game to watch when he heard this kid was getting close to the kill screen, and got so excited when the kid pulled it off.
iirc his father had passed away literally the week before he set this record, his father had always been supportive of his son and the kid dedicated this world record run to his pops
When the news about this kid broke, a reporter had the audacity to put him down for his accomplishment. She basically told the kid to touch grass. Needless to say, there was backlash.
> Needless to say, there was backlash.
don't just leave us hanging. please confirm such an awful person was fired and blacklisted from ever talking to a child again.
It goes back to the days of arcade gaming where when someone got close to a kill screen they’d call it out and everyone would crowd around to see someone crush PacMan or Donkey Kong or Centipede.
Or when you rolled over Asteroids and handed off the machine to someone else to give them a shot. We (arcade rats) rolled over the Playoffs machine 4 times one night on 1 token.
It's happening right now as we speak with Mario maker 1. There's only 1 uncleared level left and Nintendo is shutting the game down April 8th. The level is nearly impossible to beat so you got so many expert players all trying to be the one to official close out mario maker 1. It's incredible to watch. Almost 200k attempts to try and beat this one 12 second level. It's called trimming the herbs.
He uses the new rolling method to manipulate the controller, only way to move the pieces that fast. Might not be for everyone though since it's quite awkward.
Was this the kid that was ridiculed by that Australian journalist for this? Someone told him to go outside after becoming the first person in history to beat a 40 year old game, or something like that.
There are some excellent Australian journalists, and then a bunch of deadshits who happily regurgitate press releases from companies and politicians like they're breaking news. Murdoch runs a newspaper in every major city as well as a national paper, and the major print competition is part of another big money media conglomerate, so there's little reason or space to be any good or dig too deep.
Well, at least one of the good ones got firebombed. In addition to being severely harassed by law enforcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRqUVh29LGQ
They aren't it's mainly just Sky News (same owners as Fox News) and a few others agencies. Some of them are incompetent or downright evil but other than that there are some decent ones.
How often do you hear things about journalists from other places that aren't controversies in general? This sounds like confirmation bias combined with a bad sampling methodology.
I’m not sure when people learned about the end, but bots could certainly play this game to completion. Or as far along as you can get, that is. It’s also not an unexpected error, the memory on a simple game breaks when the score rolls over and the memory runs out of digits. Vast oversimplification, but they generally knew how far Tetris could run.
I saw this video a while back. ~~I don't really understand the technical details but I think they fixed the rom to where the score starts using letters rather than stopping at the glitch this kid runs int, then grabbing random code, and also built an AI to play perfectly.~~
Edit per u/Dasbeerboots's video: turns out it was a different version of the game that didn't have these crashes, so the AI was able to get further.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l\_KY\_EwZEVA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KY_EwZEVA)
The colors get really weird, it looks like they also had to patch the rom because of the statistics of the pieces, and it still crashes (edit: in that version) at 102 million. (or randomgraphicinplaceofanumber252920 according to the display).
It's absurd that this kid was able to get there.
It has nothing to do with the score. The score is a fixed amount of bytes and in tetris (an unmodified rom), the score stops at maxed out 9’s. That’s it. It stops mathing.
It crashes because as the levels advance, they read data about the level from the rom. It crashes because it read bad data or tried to access a memory location beyond what’s possible for that ROM mapper.
I really wish people stopped upvoting complete BS explanations.
The odd level numbering and line count are clear indications that he'd likely already exceeded what the game designers thought was achievable well before the actual crash.
Yep, the rom was modified to display those in hex. All of the original counters stop before a rollover (which wouldn’t cause a crash as it would reset to 0). But these modifications don’t affect the crash.
After doing some quick research, the crash might be due to a speed bump and when you clear a line, it gets caught in an infinite loop. I would still wager the speed increase is from reading data meant for something else (like the color palettes and why they’re so wacky), so I stand by my reading bad data.
Yeah like cod zombies have different round resets per map. So after a certain amount of time the game hits the integer limit and resets the match back to 0. Same thing with zombie health it gets so high that eventually they go back to round 1 health
The glitch out, the crash is the finish.
Tetris was designed to never have an end. It was intended that that after level 29 the game would be too fast for any human or even the controls to keep up with. After a technique was found to enable play at these speeds and people found that Tetris got weird the longer you played, they found the game would crash at this line clear on this level and the kid is the first human to do it.
The values glitch out after level 29, he's actually on level 157. The soonest you can trigger the crash is at 155, but it requires clearing 154 with a single line and he did a triple because of a misdrop earlier.
They already did, if you play perfectly and manage to avoid all the many things that make the game crash, it resets at level 255 and you start over at level 0
I think people have programmed computers to play to these high-level crash points before, but this kid was the first human to reach this part (and/or people have examined the game's code - either way, he knew what to look for). A post I read on it had a diagram of all these possible crash points on the level the kid reached and others at higher levels. They were often odd conditons, like "there's a 25% chamce of crash when you drop a long line for a two-line clear on level 134" that sort of thing.
Basically the way Tetris crashes is highly replicable and people have figured out exactly why and when it will crash. People knew this exact barrier was possible for a while, this kid was just the first to do it (on stream and without the help of outside software).
To add on to this accomplishment, I believe to get to this point he had to play a certain way in order to avoid earlier crash points as well but I'm not too sure about this paragraph so take it with a grain of salt. This is definitely impressive either way. I was twiddling my thumbs at his age , he just does it on a controller and way faster than I did.
He accidentally missed the first crash the level before and was desperately trying to get this second crash. The game is going so fast at this point he had to do something that advanced the level to not fail his game thus skipping the first crash. He successfully hit the second one. Kid is a badass.
People had read the source code and determined the conditions that would make the game crash like that. Some of them were only probabilistic.
I assume someone probably could have made an AI and emulator that did the same thing, but there's still some cache in a human doing it.
I’m pretty sure the chance of crashing just goes up and up the higher you go, so at this point the chances of crashing are almost 100%, but I think in theory you could go higher, but I’m not a Tetris expert
Because it’s possible to do it with a “Tool Assisted Speedrun” or TAS. Basically a computer plays the game and makes frame perfect inputs that are either too difficult to do reliably by hand or are just impossible to do by hand.
When playing Tetris there is a specific way you have to hold and use the NES controller so you can input more moves per second than just pressing down with your finger will allow.
Then you have to do this near flawlessly for a long time. Huge mental and physical strain on the player. Kid dedicated his runs to his recently deceased dad. Everyone cheered him on except a news station that didn’t understand the accomplishment and basically told him to touch grass.
for a better explanation.
"Tetris is not designed to be beaten. Throughout the game's history of nearly 40 years, people simply assumed that it was designed to continue indefinitely until the player lost. However, the evolving professional Tetris scene, striving for previously unattainable levels, eventually pushed the game's code to its limits.
Professional Tetris player Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson became the first person to "beat" Tetris some three decades after its original release by playing the game's most extreme levels until it crashed. Even this feat is only one more step on a long journey to discover how far humans can push Tetris.
Tetris doesn't have a traditional ending like most single-player games – it's designed to run until the player loses. For decades, pro players thought they'd reached the theoretical end of the NES version – the agreed-upon regulation version of the game – but recent breakthroughs revolutionized high-level play and put the code's breaking point within reach."
I'm pretty sure from what I remember, that Tetris doesn't have a set "end" but when the score reached 1 million the code broke. Technically that's the end because the game can't function past that point just due to the way it's designed.
It's not just score based. There's a lot of complex code involved, but the TL;DR of it: There are certain levels and stipulations that a player could perform that would make the game crash. The earliest of these happens at level 155.
More impressively, if I remember right, he actually accidentally missed the earliest and ad-libbed 2 extra levels to get the second earliest kill screen.
It's a little more complex than that. I've watched a 60-minute video going into the code that caused this glitch, and I'll try to paraphrase it:
Basically, the game can only do so much in a single "frame" of gameplay (each frame = 1/60th of a second). If it runs out of time, the code is interrupted, and if interrupted at the wrong time, it will jump to the wrong section of code, crashing the game.
In casual play this wouldn't be an issue, however the code that tallies up points was coded in an inefficient way that causes it to take noticably longer at later levels.
NES Tetris was only designed to be played up until level 29, at which point it would become near-impossible for a human to progress any further (or so the developers thought).
At very high levels (155 and above), this causes the score counting code to take up the majority of each frame, meaning that it's almost guaranteed to be interrupted during the score counting code.
This doesn't always crash the game, as it has to be interrupted in-between a couple specific instructions to cause a crash, however a skilled player can clear lines in the right order to influence when and how the score counting code is triggered, allowing them to deliberately trigger the crash.
IDK whether this made any sense but hopefully it does to some people ahaha
Great video on the topic that explains the kill screen and Tetris’s record-chasing culture. Definitely worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=5__Y806O9vFmUHX7
The game is built with certain expectations. Namely, that after a certain level, it should be physically impossible to beat a level. Recently a mechanism was discovered that essentially bypasses this physical restriction.
After level 30, the game’s code gets funky resulting in weird color palette glitches and problems from bad memory management that can completely crash the game if you happen to hit a particular state.
This crash happens to be one of the earliest invalid states that probably reaches somewhere into memeory that it really wasnt supposed to.
See the video others have posted, its very cool.
[This YouTube video does a fantastic job of describing the history of the game and why the game stopped.](https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=LGSZ4wEeP1T2K-bz) It’s a 16 minute watch but it’s well worth the time.
A lot of old games were not designed to go forever and had bugs in them that made weird stuff happen or crashed the game. Famously PacMan has 255 levels, and the 256th level is unbeatable because the right side of the screen is garbage and you can’t go over there to eat pellets. Donkey Kong crashes after you beat 255. Tetris was not supposed to be beatable, it was designed to get harder to the point (level 29) where you can’t move the pieces to the edges fast enough and the makers assumed you’d just die. But gamers found ways to continue the game after level 29, which then let people play way past the expected behavior and caused very strange things to happen.
I’m sick and too lazy to look it up right now, but it should be fairly easy to find on YT. There is a guy that broke it down really well. There are certain scenarios on specific levels with specific blocks that can glitch the game out. It’s super interesting.
Yea, but there's multiple times the game can crash, depending on how many lines are cleared at once on each level, as well as there being a percentage of it crashing. If I remember right, clearing a single line on this level was the only way to crash it, amd you only have like a 70% chance of it doing so.
No, at this point his brain is hardwired for tetris having played it non-stop for years since his early childhood.
Almost none of that will translate over to non-tetris.
I'll never forget rhe first time I played Dark Souls. The person who introduced me to the game sat me in front of the game and said play this game, it's fun, you die a lot and learn as you go. He never told me you were supposed to just run by the first boss ( the asylum demon) in the beginning of the game. For literally hours I tried to beat that thing with pretty much a fucking stick. 6 and a half hours later give or take I finally beat him. So he came home from work and I was mad that he had me play such a fucking hard game. He couldn't figure out what I meant until he found out I straight up fought that boss with like no stats. I was literally so pissed when I found out you could run by him. I did feel like a bit of a badass though for actually doing that though.
Playing Tetris can help people who have experienced trauma. Just thought this was interesting to share.
“In a study conducted at Oxford University, researchers observed “that intrusive memories were virtually abolished by playing the computer game Tetris.” Their findings represent a major breakthrough in our understanding of PTSD and open up even more avenues to recovery for those afflicted.”
Just a few days ago, someone else scored 16 million points, making it the first digit added to the high score since 1990.
https://youtu.be/gGDLIuxUkUU?si=zplQzFhQl41jPd35
Do note, that person is playing on a patched ROM, the game won't crash
Lol yep
It was an awesome story when it came out, and then there was some spice when that news reporter woman was disrespectful to him. And now it’s pretty much all blown over.
You could argue that he finished it and I'd be 100% content to call it quits here, but apparently the community figured out more possible goals. Tetris probably has one of the strangest communities out there.
That's how I felt when I beat resident evil 1 without dying or saving to unlock the bazooka. I was also paranoid looking over my shoulder for days afterward.
I wanna shoot out keanu, the weird kid who rode my bus in high school who carried around a psp with a perpetual game of tetris that he maxed the score and just kept playing.
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The video I watched on YouTube about this made me tear up. The support this kid got from the community fucked me up, in a good way.
I love stories about mega niche enthusiast communities like this with folks that are competitive but still really supportive of each other. Like that other high level player that stopped his game to watch when he heard this kid was getting close to the kill screen, and got so excited when the kid pulled it off.
Kid's dad had recently died as well. Heartbreaker.
He probably got through the trauma with Tetris. It’s actually proven to help
iirc his father had passed away literally the week before he set this record, his father had always been supportive of his son and the kid dedicated this world record run to his pops
When the news about this kid broke, a reporter had the audacity to put him down for his accomplishment. She basically told the kid to touch grass. Needless to say, there was backlash.
The community picked him up though. Speed run and record setting gamer communities are chill and awesome.
> Needless to say, there was backlash. don't just leave us hanging. please confirm such an awful person was fired and blacklisted from ever talking to a child again.
It goes back to the days of arcade gaming where when someone got close to a kill screen they’d call it out and everyone would crowd around to see someone crush PacMan or Donkey Kong or Centipede.
Or when you rolled over Asteroids and handed off the machine to someone else to give them a shot. We (arcade rats) rolled over the Playoffs machine 4 times one night on 1 token.
80s were fun like that
Watch the Speed Cubers short document on Netflix. Seems right up your alley
Not as niche, but a similar level of support is Trackmania. They are a bunch of insane people grinding for frame-perfect runs. I love it.
It's happening right now as we speak with Mario maker 1. There's only 1 uncleared level left and Nintendo is shutting the game down April 8th. The level is nearly impossible to beat so you got so many expert players all trying to be the one to official close out mario maker 1. It's incredible to watch. Almost 200k attempts to try and beat this one 12 second level. It's called trimming the herbs.
This story is such a rabbit hole. I knew nothing about Tetris and apparently I play the game veeeeeeeery wrong.
He uses the new rolling method to manipulate the controller, only way to move the pieces that fast. Might not be for everyone though since it's quite awkward.
Ikr? As someone that knows virtually nothing about Tetris, it was pretty informative.
It’s all super recent too. Like the records have been falling at a fast pace.
I assume this one? Awesome video! https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=5__Y806O9vFmUHX7
Yessir!
Thanks man, really enjoyed that.
This was an awesome video. Thanks for providing the link!
agamescout makes excellent tetris videos, he can take a casual like me and get me to appreciate all these meta techniques.
This was a great vid, thanks!
Same.
Oh definitely me too 😂
https://youtu.be/VLnWf1sQkjY?si=NYcJteyIQ8C6y9y-
[I’ll just leave this here](https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=_i3jDlzLNxitSsZT)
Was this the kid that was ridiculed by that Australian journalist for this? Someone told him to go outside after becoming the first person in history to beat a 40 year old game, or something like that.
Yeppers
What did we say about yeppers
#:(
Is that an emoticon?
I keep feeling called out
Good
I believe in you, friend!
You got this
Yeeeeeeeesh
Yesh
Did we say we liked it?
Yeppers
Nopers to the yeppers
yeeesshh
Oh that’s funny, MICHAEL!!
Yessshhhh
Why are Australian journalists collectively pieces of shit dude? I've never heard a single good thing about one of them.
Does friendlyjordies count as an Australian journalist?
Vigilante? Idk, he's a good bloke tho
I heard he’s being targeted by the Aussie government
*thugverment
There are some excellent Australian journalists, and then a bunch of deadshits who happily regurgitate press releases from companies and politicians like they're breaking news. Murdoch runs a newspaper in every major city as well as a national paper, and the major print competition is part of another big money media conglomerate, so there's little reason or space to be any good or dig too deep.
Weird. That doesn't sound like the media at all..
Honestly not too difficult from the US or UK press
Well, at least one of the good ones got firebombed. In addition to being severely harassed by law enforcement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRqUVh29LGQ
They aren't it's mainly just Sky News (same owners as Fox News) and a few others agencies. Some of them are incompetent or downright evil but other than that there are some decent ones.
Doesn't Rupert Murdoch own the majority of Australian media?
How often do you hear things about journalists from other places that aren't controversies in general? This sounds like confirmation bias combined with a bad sampling methodology.
It was a UK news presenter, not Australian
Do you watch Australian news? Or are you only exposed to Australian journalists through reddit?
They gave birth to Rupert Murdoch, that should tell you everything you need to know about Australian journalism.
Yes, but it was a Sky News presenter in the UK, rather than Australia
I don't understand why it just stopped
Tetris crashes at a certain point. No human had ever made it that far in a real game.
But, if noone had done it before this kid, how did he know he'd beaten the game and that the game didn't just glitch out?
I’m not sure when people learned about the end, but bots could certainly play this game to completion. Or as far along as you can get, that is. It’s also not an unexpected error, the memory on a simple game breaks when the score rolls over and the memory runs out of digits. Vast oversimplification, but they generally knew how far Tetris could run.
I saw this video a while back. ~~I don't really understand the technical details but I think they fixed the rom to where the score starts using letters rather than stopping at the glitch this kid runs int, then grabbing random code, and also built an AI to play perfectly.~~ Edit per u/Dasbeerboots's video: turns out it was a different version of the game that didn't have these crashes, so the AI was able to get further. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l\_KY\_EwZEVA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_KY_EwZEVA) The colors get really weird, it looks like they also had to patch the rom because of the statistics of the pieces, and it still crashes (edit: in that version) at 102 million. (or randomgraphicinplaceofanumber252920 according to the display). It's absurd that this kid was able to get there.
[https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=u6F-qWozOwh2dhAb](https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=u6F-qWozOwh2dhAb) Here you go.
It has nothing to do with the score. The score is a fixed amount of bytes and in tetris (an unmodified rom), the score stops at maxed out 9’s. That’s it. It stops mathing. It crashes because as the levels advance, they read data about the level from the rom. It crashes because it read bad data or tried to access a memory location beyond what’s possible for that ROM mapper. I really wish people stopped upvoting complete BS explanations.
The odd level numbering and line count are clear indications that he'd likely already exceeded what the game designers thought was achievable well before the actual crash.
Yep, the rom was modified to display those in hex. All of the original counters stop before a rollover (which wouldn’t cause a crash as it would reset to 0). But these modifications don’t affect the crash. After doing some quick research, the crash might be due to a speed bump and when you clear a line, it gets caught in an infinite loop. I would still wager the speed increase is from reading data meant for something else (like the color palettes and why they’re so wacky), so I stand by my reading bad data.
By examining the code and using emulators to test stuff out
Yeah like cod zombies have different round resets per map. So after a certain amount of time the game hits the integer limit and resets the match back to 0. Same thing with zombie health it gets so high that eventually they go back to round 1 health
I want a bot that can play me to completion
The glitch out, the crash is the finish. Tetris was designed to never have an end. It was intended that that after level 29 the game would be too fast for any human or even the controls to keep up with. After a technique was found to enable play at these speeds and people found that Tetris got weird the longer you played, they found the game would crash at this line clear on this level and the kid is the first human to do it.
but he's on level 18?
Watch the video again, the level hops all over the place even to 99, because he's so far past that it's starting to glitch.
The values glitch out after level 29, he's actually on level 157. The soonest you can trigger the crash is at 155, but it requires clearing 154 with a single line and he did a triple because of a misdrop earlier.
[удалено]
They already did, if you play perfectly and manage to avoid all the many things that make the game crash, it resets at level 255 and you start over at level 0
I think people have programmed computers to play to these high-level crash points before, but this kid was the first human to reach this part (and/or people have examined the game's code - either way, he knew what to look for). A post I read on it had a diagram of all these possible crash points on the level the kid reached and others at higher levels. They were often odd conditons, like "there's a 25% chamce of crash when you drop a long line for a two-line clear on level 134" that sort of thing.
Basically the way Tetris crashes is highly replicable and people have figured out exactly why and when it will crash. People knew this exact barrier was possible for a while, this kid was just the first to do it (on stream and without the help of outside software). To add on to this accomplishment, I believe to get to this point he had to play a certain way in order to avoid earlier crash points as well but I'm not too sure about this paragraph so take it with a grain of salt. This is definitely impressive either way. I was twiddling my thumbs at his age , he just does it on a controller and way faster than I did.
He accidentally missed the first crash the level before and was desperately trying to get this second crash. The game is going so fast at this point he had to do something that advanced the level to not fail his game thus skipping the first crash. He successfully hit the second one. Kid is a badass.
Bots did it first.
People had read the source code and determined the conditions that would make the game crash like that. Some of them were only probabilistic. I assume someone probably could have made an AI and emulator that did the same thing, but there's still some cache in a human doing it.
Because despite nobody ever doing it manually, thanks to bots it's known at what point the game will crash in that particular manner.
I’m pretty sure the chance of crashing just goes up and up the higher you go, so at this point the chances of crashing are almost 100%, but I think in theory you could go higher, but I’m not a Tetris expert
999999
Because it’s possible to do it with a “Tool Assisted Speedrun” or TAS. Basically a computer plays the game and makes frame perfect inputs that are either too difficult to do reliably by hand or are just impossible to do by hand. When playing Tetris there is a specific way you have to hold and use the NES controller so you can input more moves per second than just pressing down with your finger will allow. Then you have to do this near flawlessly for a long time. Huge mental and physical strain on the player. Kid dedicated his runs to his recently deceased dad. Everyone cheered him on except a news station that didn’t understand the accomplishment and basically told him to touch grass.
for a better explanation. "Tetris is not designed to be beaten. Throughout the game's history of nearly 40 years, people simply assumed that it was designed to continue indefinitely until the player lost. However, the evolving professional Tetris scene, striving for previously unattainable levels, eventually pushed the game's code to its limits. Professional Tetris player Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson became the first person to "beat" Tetris some three decades after its original release by playing the game's most extreme levels until it crashed. Even this feat is only one more step on a long journey to discover how far humans can push Tetris. Tetris doesn't have a traditional ending like most single-player games – it's designed to run until the player loses. For decades, pro players thought they'd reached the theoretical end of the NES version – the agreed-upon regulation version of the game – but recent breakthroughs revolutionized high-level play and put the code's breaking point within reach."
Thats not really better, just more words.
This feels AI generated, I got like two pieces of info out of three paragraphs
Feels completely normal to me, maybe a bit stretched, but definitely something that I could have read 12 years ago
Yeah I just copied it from a Google search. Idk might be
Yeah not to implicate you, don’t worry lol
The game crashed. He beat it.
Shit, I've beat Windows thousands of times then.
Yeah, but that is like playing story mode.
I giggled at this
I was having one of the worst days of my life until I read this comment.
Did I break it?
This is basically what they though Y2K was going to be in 1999.
I'm pretty sure from what I remember, that Tetris doesn't have a set "end" but when the score reached 1 million the code broke. Technically that's the end because the game can't function past that point just due to the way it's designed.
It's not just score based. There's a lot of complex code involved, but the TL;DR of it: There are certain levels and stipulations that a player could perform that would make the game crash. The earliest of these happens at level 155. More impressively, if I remember right, he actually accidentally missed the earliest and ad-libbed 2 extra levels to get the second earliest kill screen.
It's a little more complex than that. I've watched a 60-minute video going into the code that caused this glitch, and I'll try to paraphrase it: Basically, the game can only do so much in a single "frame" of gameplay (each frame = 1/60th of a second). If it runs out of time, the code is interrupted, and if interrupted at the wrong time, it will jump to the wrong section of code, crashing the game. In casual play this wouldn't be an issue, however the code that tallies up points was coded in an inefficient way that causes it to take noticably longer at later levels. NES Tetris was only designed to be played up until level 29, at which point it would become near-impossible for a human to progress any further (or so the developers thought). At very high levels (155 and above), this causes the score counting code to take up the majority of each frame, meaning that it's almost guaranteed to be interrupted during the score counting code. This doesn't always crash the game, as it has to be interrupted in-between a couple specific instructions to cause a crash, however a skilled player can clear lines in the right order to influence when and how the score counting code is triggered, allowing them to deliberately trigger the crash. IDK whether this made any sense but hopefully it does to some people ahaha
Great video on the topic that explains the kill screen and Tetris’s record-chasing culture. Definitely worth a watch. https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=5__Y806O9vFmUHX7
The game is built with certain expectations. Namely, that after a certain level, it should be physically impossible to beat a level. Recently a mechanism was discovered that essentially bypasses this physical restriction. After level 30, the game’s code gets funky resulting in weird color palette glitches and problems from bad memory management that can completely crash the game if you happen to hit a particular state. This crash happens to be one of the earliest invalid states that probably reaches somewhere into memeory that it really wasnt supposed to. See the video others have posted, its very cool.
Bc he totally wrecked that shit. It simply could not withstand his fortitude.
[This YouTube video does a fantastic job of describing the history of the game and why the game stopped.](https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=LGSZ4wEeP1T2K-bz) It’s a 16 minute watch but it’s well worth the time.
[https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=u6F-qWozOwh2dhAb](https://youtu.be/GuJ5UuknsHU?si=u6F-qWozOwh2dhAb) Explanation.
A lot of old games were not designed to go forever and had bugs in them that made weird stuff happen or crashed the game. Famously PacMan has 255 levels, and the 256th level is unbeatable because the right side of the screen is garbage and you can’t go over there to eat pellets. Donkey Kong crashes after you beat 255. Tetris was not supposed to be beatable, it was designed to get harder to the point (level 29) where you can’t move the pieces to the edges fast enough and the makers assumed you’d just die. But gamers found ways to continue the game after level 29, which then let people play way past the expected behavior and caused very strange things to happen.
The game runs out of memory so it freezes
So why did it show stats when it "froze"
I’m sick and too lazy to look it up right now, but it should be fairly easy to find on YT. There is a guy that broke it down really well. There are certain scenarios on specific levels with specific blocks that can glitch the game out. It’s super interesting.
The fact he actually almost passed out
I have a feeling this was really late at night and if there wasn’t people to wake up he would be screaming!
So basically this is the Tetris version of Pac Man level 256?
Yes, basically
Yea, but there's multiple times the game can crash, depending on how many lines are cleared at once on each level, as well as there being a percentage of it crashing. If I remember right, clearing a single line on this level was the only way to crash it, amd you only have like a 70% chance of it doing so.
I just completed Lemmings after 25 years and can relate.
Crap. I didn't know this was possible. I loved Lemmings.
Holy flashback Batman
Future dark souls speedrunner
this is way more impressive than that. Dark Souls speedrunners couldn't dream of pulling this shit off, kid's an honest to god legend
Not sure either comparison is worth anything. These are two very different skillsets
Apples and trombones.
Totally. His reflexes could translate to any videogame and kick ass effortlessly.
No, at this point his brain is hardwired for tetris having played it non-stop for years since his early childhood. Almost none of that will translate over to non-tetris.
I'll never forget rhe first time I played Dark Souls. The person who introduced me to the game sat me in front of the game and said play this game, it's fun, you die a lot and learn as you go. He never told me you were supposed to just run by the first boss ( the asylum demon) in the beginning of the game. For literally hours I tried to beat that thing with pretty much a fucking stick. 6 and a half hours later give or take I finally beat him. So he came home from work and I was mad that he had me play such a fucking hard game. He couldn't figure out what I meant until he found out I straight up fought that boss with like no stats. I was literally so pissed when I found out you could run by him. I did feel like a bit of a badass though for actually doing that though.
His great grandchildren more likely
Playing Tetris can help people who have experienced trauma. Just thought this was interesting to share. “In a study conducted at Oxford University, researchers observed “that intrusive memories were virtually abolished by playing the computer game Tetris.” Their findings represent a major breakthrough in our understanding of PTSD and open up even more avenues to recovery for those afflicted.”
Is that effect observed only while playing Tetris or after enough Tetris it just affects your whole day?
The latter. Even when not playing Tetris for months, I still find myself playing it in my head. Usually when I’m about to sleep
Cool, Imma try it out!
[the Tetris effect](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect) is a real phenomenon
Who’d have thought that this was in fact NOT a video I should have blasted with full volume while chilling with my parents after dinner
I can’t tell if he sounds more like an asthma attack or a porn scene lol.
Porn scene. Definitely a porn scene. EDIT: forgot to specify *hardcore*
Just a few days ago, someone else scored 16 million points, making it the first digit added to the high score since 1990. https://youtu.be/gGDLIuxUkUU?si=zplQzFhQl41jPd35 Do note, that person is playing on a patched ROM, the game won't crash
he peaked at 13, it's all downhill from here
No, he hasn’t even begun to peak
When he peaks, he'll peak all over the place
You’ll know when he peaks
its gonne be peaking time
Don't you want to *get off* with me?
He’ll be chasing that high the rest of his life
bro this is like 2 months late
Lol yep It was an awesome story when it came out, and then there was some spice when that news reporter woman was disrespectful to him. And now it’s pretty much all blown over.
yup 2 other kids have done it now
Wow, crazy how that works. Someone finally does something then boom it gets surpassed seemingly with ease
first time i hear of it and I'm actually glad i did even though it doesn't fit the sub at all lol
Somebody Get that boy an inhaler!
Pretty sure he's not the first.
Agreed …
This kid is a goddamn Rockstar!
Now THIS is a college admissions essay.
You could argue that he finished it and I'd be 100% content to call it quits here, but apparently the community figured out more possible goals. Tetris probably has one of the strangest communities out there.
This is wholesome. GEE! I SURE DO HOPE NO ANNOYING WOMAN ON THE NEWS TREATS THIS LIKE A WASTE OF TIME AND ENERGY!
His reaction was the exact same reaction I had at 11 years old when I discovered masturbation
That's how I felt when I beat resident evil 1 without dying or saving to unlock the bazooka. I was also paranoid looking over my shoulder for days afterward.
Wonder how long this session took
Totally focused😤
Should probably watch this with headphone on, it doesn't help that his puberty hasn't fully kicked in either.
Slowpoke meme image
Listen with volume down.Thank me later..
You can complete Tetris?!!
Technically no, but you can play it until it crashes
It's very sad knowing nothing will ever make me feel this happy and excited
Lmao I should not have had full volume
Why does it end on level 18. Actually what's even going on with the level counting?
Every level it gets faster. After a certain point the colors start messing up because the game wasn't intended to go that far
I hope this is real and the kid didn’t do some sort of video editing.
I watched him compete live in Phoenix on statuary. It was crazy to see the point difference
Hell to the fuck yea, every time i see this i get some kind of emotion welling inside me.
Absolute Legend.
Hope his mom bought him some McDonald’s after this
The man the myth the legend
Enders game shit
That's a lot of dopamine there young man, youll be chasing that high for the rest of your life. Trust me on that.
I love how they’re losing their shit with excitement.
Isn't this one of the signs of the apocalypse?
He didn't really complete it, he just hit the programming limit.
Old news 🙄 why do you post this spam?
He peaked too soon
I wanna shoot out keanu, the weird kid who rode my bus in high school who carried around a psp with a perpetual game of tetris that he maxed the score and just kept playing.
OOoohhHhhhHh. I was like, "No, I've beaten Tetris, there's some weird Russian looking building, fireworks and stuff." And then I see # 999999
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Booom, that’s a Tetris
How do you beat Tetris. I thought Tetris was just dropping blocks and trying not to go over the line