What's the highest level you've reached in Tetris?

Barfo

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I just made it to level 24, starting from 1, no super powers, combos or any funny stuff, just good old classic Tetris.

I'm sure some alpha geek will pwn my achievement hard, but I'm pretty damn proud of myself right now :cool:
 

Nik

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Jun 5, 2006
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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.
 

Barfo

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Jan 4, 2005
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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.

Yeah I know, I'm talking about the Nintendo versions which seem to be somewhat standardized when you play in classic mode.
 

Dirigible

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Apr 26, 2006
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I last played in about 1994 or so. There were nine levels in the version I played. I could make it to level 9 and keep playing at that level until I got bored.

So unless you made it to the highest level your Tetris game has and could play at that level indefinitely, my epeenor is bigger than yours.
 

Ns1

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Jun 17, 2001
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24/25

Only did it once though, it was nuts. Lots of practice on the good ol' ti-86
 

Titan

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Oct 15, 1999
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I played what used to be "Tetris Max" in Mac system 7

I found a 16-bit windows port called bricklayer that runs in XP.

The colors never change so I am conditioned to them. I don't even think, I just drop blocks. I can drop without speeding up as well, instant drop is key.

My record is well over 1000 blocks. It takes like 45 minutes to do that. I regularly break 200.
 

DayLaPaul

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Apr 6, 2001
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Tetris is about points, not level. Anyone chump can level up quickly by nickel and diming singles and doubles. The mark of a true Tetris master is how many Tetrises and thus, points he can achieve. Someone going for all Tetrises will typically have as many points by level 9 as someone who is just hitting singles and doubles on level 25.
 

Arkaign

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Oct 27, 2006
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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.
 

nakedfrog

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Apr 3, 2001
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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.
 

Quasmo

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I can routinely break 250k points (3rd rocket). I start at level 7, and generally hit about level 19. I probably have around 25-30 tetrises. I play the original gameboy tetris. My legs usually fall asleep and I have to get off the toilet.
 

Arkaign

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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.

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.

I met Alexei Pajitnov in 1991 at the Winter CES in Vegas, and he was very kind and gracious, if a bit shy. I don't know the details, but I don't think he was all that fond of Nintendo as a company. He was inking a deal at that time with Spectrum Holobyte IIRC, and subsequently released the interesting but ultimately forgettable 'Hattris'.
 

nakedfrog

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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.

Yeah, I was completely unaware of the whole thing at the time, I just knew that my friend's black Tetris cartridge was better than my Nintendo one because we could play against each other :p
 

oogabooga

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Jan 14, 2003
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I got to level.. 99? But I used that level cheat to get there and laughed at the instant failure.

My parents could actually beat me, they could get up to the low-mid 20's pretty regularly I think.
I might have hit 20+ a couple times, but I doubt i got upto/past 23.
 

Glitchny

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Sep 4, 2002
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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.
 

Arkaign

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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.

Hah, awesome :)
 

noser3

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I did level 29 many times throughout the 90's on original NES Tetris. Very frustrating to explain it to people because they confuse it with level 9 or 19. Level 29 is something else. I usually started at level 18 or 19 to maximize score. I think I did 32 lines at most ever on 29, it is ridiculously impossible. I never made 999,999 as a score, but did around 820,000 once. That was highest I could find online until I saw a 999,999 score posted online with screenshots in the mid-2000's. This is also hard to describe to people because there have been so many iterations of Tetris online since original Nientendo. It would be difficult to do online. Tough to do online with keyboard controls now. Easier with original NES controllers.
 
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