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In the fall of 2018, tucked away in a side hall at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, seven-time Classic Tetris World Champion (CTWC), Jonas Neubauer, found himself against the ropes. 37-year-old ...
As they ripped through Tetris ’ myriad levels, the bricks falling at an ever-faster pace, Blue Scuti quipped about misplacing blocks here and there. Regardless of miscalculations, though, Blue ...
Thirteen-year-old Blue Scuti has become the first human to “beat” Tetris on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). This achievement shattered a 34-year streak for the beloved block game. On December ...
Tetris for the NES has been generating headlines all year thanks to the explosion of interest when 13-year-old Willis 'Blue Scuti' Gibson became the first person to 'beat' the game.
As for Tetris, if you cast minds back to last winter, a then-13-year-old competitive Tetris player managed to 'beat' the falling block game, by getting it to reveal its "kill screen".
First off, what Gibson beat was the “A-Type” mode of the NES version of Tetris. The A-Type mode requires players to clear 29 levels of play. At various intervals past Level 10, the game speeds ...
Tetris was released by Nintendo on NES in 1985 and up until recently, gamers believed that it wasn’t possible to ever beat the game. The only time the kill screen had been seen was when AI bots ...
Nintendo Switch Online subscribers will also get to play the NES version of Tetris, bundled in with the subscription, and there will be a Tetris 99 Maximus event for battle royale spin-off Tetris 99.
When you think of esports, Tetris likely doesn’t come to mind. Let alone NES Tetris played on original hardware. Yet, this weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo a new Classic Tetris World ...
His latest video, however, may be his most jaw-dropping. It’s all about the history of world records (and other mind-blowing achievements) in NES Tetris, and it is absolutely not to be missed.
The Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online app will add the 1989-released Tetris game published by Nintendo on December 12, Nintendo announced.