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A 13-year-old is the first human to beat Tetris | Numerous theoretical milestones remain (www.techspot.com)
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A 13-year-old is the first human to beat Tetris | Numerous theoretical milestones remain::undefined

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[–] Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The thumbnail and the title made me think of the basketball kid from The Boondocks basketball kid

[–] casmael@startrek.website 49 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Apparently the kid’s dad died last month. Reckon the story makes a whole lot more sense with that in mind.

[–] xfc@lemdro.id 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Ashyr@sh.itjust.works 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

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://youtu.be/n-BZ5-Q48lE?si=IuINMW-DVLabOdWh

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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!

[–] Cheskaz@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

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

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It's worth checking out the player Fractal, who does stream on YouTube. I would consider him a pioneer in rolling.

[–] prunerye@slrpnk.net 4 points 10 months ago

He also got the level 155 crash today. Second person to ever beat the game.

[–] MarioBarisa@lemmy.ml 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

A ture gamer

[–] ElJefe@lemm.ee 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Turer words have never been said

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You’re speaking the turth

[–] Thassodar@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Almost like a turthseeker, so turt.

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Defo turing-complete

[–] Staubsaugernasenmann@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

How the turetables

[–] Staubsaugernasenmann@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago

My, how the turetables

[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I hope Wozniak sends this kid a congratulatory card or something.

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why Wozniak?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

He use to be really good at it afaik.

[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

poor little guy nearly had a heart attack...

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

It's crazy living in a time when "first human to ______" is a normal headline.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] itsralC@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago

It's the NES version, all speedruns are made on that version.