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Over the weekend, sixteen-year-old American competitive gamer Michael Arteaga became the first person to achieve the so-called “rebirth” of NES Tetris by playing to level 255 and resetting the counter to zero, The Verge reported. Gizmodo.
Arteaga also broadcast the record match, which lasted for two hours, during which he managed to erase 4,216 lines, for 29.4 million points, the portal reported. Ars Technica Based on the boy later stating that he was very happy to see the game over – a game he never wanted to play again.
According to the portal, it took 35 years to get the result, and the classic Tetris game was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989. The game was considered invincible for a long time because at higher levels it changed to a very high speed that was almost impossible to keep up with, but players created New technologies helped them reach new milestones.
In fact, in 2023, a thirteen-year-old player known as Blue Scuti actually beat the game by playing it until it “froze”, causing the program to crash after clearing 1,511 lines at level 157. Artiaga, on the other hand, had Already played a version of the game that has been updated to mitigate crashes. However, based on the live stream, the game still contains some bugs, including, for example, a color error, which increased the difficulty of the game.
By the way, Artiaga has already achieved great results in the game: in 2020, he became the youngest winner of the Classic Tetris World Championship.
Stream video of the game here can be watched.
