Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video]
by johnisgood on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:17PM
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What if this "kill screen" were to happen at, say, level 30 due to bad code? Would it still be considered "beating the game"?
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video]
by alistairSH on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:48PM
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What's interesting to me is the "kill screen" in Tetris is (apparently?) at a variable point in play.
So, this was the first person to encounter the "bug" (hardware limitation). But, future players may try to hit that point faster, with a lower/higher score, or other combinations of game state to beat the game in a "better" (more interesting) way.
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video]
by feoren on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:02PM
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Yes, it would, and then you'd never hear about competitions in that game because it doesn't support ultra high-level play.
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video]
by JohnBooty on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @01:29PM
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Well, it's definitely a judgement call.
I think most "serious" Tetris players can get to 30 easily in a short amount of time, right? Like 15-20 minutes? It'd be hard to think of that as a legitimate "ending."
Whereas a run to level 100+ or whatever for this kill screen is a major achievement. Took people 30+ years to get there.
I don't know, though. It's all subjective. If you want to think of a hypothetical lvl 30 crash as a "kill screen" or "ending" then hey... go for it.
Re:After 34 Years, Someone Beat Tetris [video]
by mgerullis on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @03:03PM
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Um, it wasn’t until 2011 before the first person achieved level 30, as the video mentions fairly early on
Also the Tetris player here isn't "exploiting" a bug. The game just literally hits a limitation that can only be hit via extended and nearly superhuman play