Originally posted by: Nik
Tetris is made by many different companies, all with different skill level and point definitions. This question is ridiculously ambiguous.
Post a link to one and have people play it, maybe.
Originally posted by: dennilfloss
Never played Tetris. In fact never even seen Tetris except in name only.
Originally posted by: SunnyD
On the NES version my sister and I would routinely make it to the mid-30's before we got bored. Oh to be young again.
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: SunnyD
On the NES version my sister and I would routinely make it to the mid-30's before we got bored. Oh to be young again.
Only a handful (perhaps less than 5 or so) of people on earth can play Tetris on NES past level 29. There is a technical reason for this. Even if you hold the D-pad to the left or the right BEFORE the piece appears at the top, the piece will hit the bottom of the screen before it can be moved fully to the left or the right of the stack.
Only recently (last month IIRC) did someone finally submit a 999,999 score to TG. I did that back in '90, but never cared enough to make a big deal about it.
Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Originally posted by: SunnyD
On the NES version my sister and I would routinely make it to the mid-30's before we got bored. Oh to be young again.
Only a handful (perhaps less than 5 or so) of people on earth can play Tetris on NES past level 29. There is a technical reason for this. Even if you hold the D-pad to the left or the right BEFORE the piece appears at the top, the piece will hit the bottom of the screen before it can be moved fully to the left or the right of the stack.
Only recently (last month IIRC) did someone finally submit a 999,999 score to TG. I did that back in '90, but never cared enough to make a big deal about it.
Maybe it was Tengen Tetris? It might have been different regarding speed, I don't know for sure. I just know it was > official Tetris because of 2P mode.
Originally posted by: Arkaign
Ah yeah, that was the Tengen version. It was cool for sure, and ironically, it was the first really valuable NES game due to it being quickly pulled from the stores due to Nintendo's lawsuit. You could play Tengen tetris indefinitely, as long as your thumbs didn't fall off.
Originally posted by: Glitchny
111 lines on an old TI-86 graphing calculator in high school. took all of a lab period and half of a lunch cause it didn't have a pause button.