the "masters" i should say
― surm, Friday, 11 January 2013 23:39 (eleven years ago) link
my pb on gambeboy tetris is 218 lines. aw yeah.
― caek, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
tetris is my shit
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
anybody ever play tetrinet. back in the days of irc. that game took years off my life
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoAaJQk6OWc
218 lines must have been a good score, too? Stupid fast above the 200 mark. I finally got Tetris for the NES, so will see if my skillz are transferable. If not I can just blame the controller, at least.
― CraigG, Monday, 11 March 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
tetrinet was pretty dope
― Nhex, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
i am most definitely the greatest doctor mario player I know (at one point I was in the Wii top 25 or whatever, but those damn Japanese are basically unbeatable)
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
i used to think i was good at dr. mario until i played with some stoners who were just insane (speed on high, always starting at the highest level).
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Monday, 11 March 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i wish i'd made a note of the score. i didn't realise 218 was pretty good. it was the only time i ever got about 200, and yes it was crazy.
― caek, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
I was never very good at the high speed/level 20 game where the challenge is basically to finish at all. The online version plays at level 5 or 6 so the whole challenge is comboing your opponent and not getting wrecked by theirs. It's a ranked system and once you get to a certain level your opponents essentially make no mistakes and play faster than I do so there's nothing to exploit, you either get lucky with your combos or you lose. And yes I am aware that most of these people are 13 year olds :(
― frogbs, Monday, 11 March 2013 15:35 (eleven years ago) link
Tetris Attack is like crack to me. Tetris for Gameboy or NES, heroin. I've taken neither but the addictive properties are appropriate.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 11 March 2013 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Used to be a beasthttp://i.imgur.com/xbXA8la.png
― tsrobodo, Monday, 11 March 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
SPINAL FUNCTION
― the 'dirty sprite' is implied (forksclovetofu), Monday, 11 March 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
FINALLY BROKE 400,000 YAAAAAAS, 418,000 OR SO YAAAAAAS. not even an especially high line score either, i feel confident i can make half a million.
― Fanois och Alexander (Merdeyeux), Friday, 19 July 2013 11:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news/tetris-movie-with-big-epic-sci-fi-plot-headed-to-hollywood-20140930
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
"This isn't a movie with a bunch of lines running around the page. We're not giving feet to the geometric shapes."
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 October 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link
I'm gonna skip the movie and hope they make a videogame based on it.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 2 October 2014 01:14 (nine years ago) link
how can they not?
― Nhex, Thursday, 2 October 2014 03:00 (nine years ago) link
http://tinycartridge.com/post/159791155042/segas-going-to-teach-us-how-to-play-tetris-i
some good videos. i never got my head around the T-spin stuff until now
― Nhex, Sunday, 23 April 2017 22:43 (seven years ago) link
btw the guy who made these videos for Sega is like crazy good, obviouslyhttps://twitter.com/S2LSOFTENER
― Nhex, Sunday, 23 April 2017 23:06 (seven years ago) link
www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-revolution-in-classic-tetris/amp
― just sayin, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
Dana Wilcox, one of the highest-scoring players on the Twin Galaxies leaderboard, discovered that she’d played for twenty years without knowing that the blocks could be spun in either direction.
Dana....
― eisimpleir (crüt), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:32 (three years ago) link
in college in the early 90s i knew a dude (with a curiously small head) who once played tetris until his score reached whatever power of 2 where the game no longer kept score
took a while for us to notice but then he began screaming that he'd won tetris, and tbh i could not gainsay him
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:40 (three years ago) link
we later named a cat, who also had a curiously small head, after him
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:41 (three years ago) link
the cat's actual owner did not appreciate it
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:42 (three years ago) link
this thread is reminding me of KLAX. so of course i looked up the klax wikipedia entry which contains this gem:
Mike Mika, who was working on the Game Boy Color version of the game, placed a hidden wedding proposal inside it. It took his then girlfriend three years to uncover the proposal.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 31 March 2021 23:49 (three years ago) link
LRT: Hamster just announced this themselves: Tetris The Grand Master's coming to Arcade Archives for PS4 & Switch on December 1🇯🇵 https://t.co/c9vFLJN87H— GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyu (@gosokkyu) November 22, 2022
tonight's Arcade Archives stream included a msg from Arika's Mihara about next week's title, Tetris The Grand Master, in which he describes himself as an "lag cop" & expresses his gratitude/apologies to all involved for enduring his overbearing dickishness while policing the port https://t.co/3CIiKyc3kx— GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyu (@gosokkyu) November 24, 2022
he also mentions how TGM series producer Harashima ran point on the Arika side and "if he says it's okay, it's okay"—afaik Harashima is the legendary player jin8, the first to achieve GM rank in both the world and classic modes of TGM3, among other feats— GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyu (@gosokkyu) November 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHI4Ycx5b5g
― chihuahuau, Thursday, 24 November 2022 15:21 (one year ago) link
THE MOVIE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BLM1naCfME
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 17 February 2023 12:58 (one year ago) link
came here to post that
― johnny crunch, Friday, 17 February 2023 14:21 (one year ago) link
#tgm_series株式会社ハムスター様に「Tetris The Absolute The Grand Master 2 PLUS」のNintendoSwitch及びPlaystation4への移植許諾した事をお知らせします。— tgm_series (@tgm_series) May 22, 2023
yoooo, Tetris The Absolute The Grand Master 2 PLUS is coming to Arcade Archives on June 1🇯🇵 TGM seemed to be an immediately popular ACA release, so I'm not surprised they fast-tracked TAP https://t.co/9jaheE4deo— GSK | https://cohost.org/gosokkyu (@gosokkyu) May 22, 2023
― chihuahuau, Monday, 22 May 2023 20:05 (eleven months ago) link
Wow, what a wild ride (not being sarcastic) - I had no idea there was so much going on in the Tetris community:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHU
― ernestp, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 05:00 (four months ago) link
that was neat
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 13:31 (four months ago) link
how old is that kid who beat it? like 14? I've always noticed that speed runners are often very young, something tells me my fingers couldn't keep up with the 'roll' method for more than 30 seconds at my age
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:00 (four months ago) link
I can’t even rotate both ways.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:06 (four months ago) link
Also can’t T-spin consistently.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:07 (four months ago) link
https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/1434880/screenshots/15474106/media/54a6a2e2e496ab993ec55b0922db5003.gif
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:10 (four months ago) link
I can’t even rotate both ways.― Jeff
― Jeff
i guess the zangi-move is right out then
https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/Zangi-move
oh, also, new bottom surgery just dropped
https://tetris.fandom.com/wiki/SRS
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:18 (four months ago) link
how old is that kid who beat it? like 14? I've always noticed that speed runners are often very young, something tells me my fingers couldn't keep up with the 'roll' method for more than 30 seconds at my age― frogbs
― frogbs
i went out on a date with a 21-year-old (yeah once i found out she was 21 that was the end of that) a couple weeks ago who's super into the tetris speedrunning community. retro gaming in particular seems to hold a strong appeal for young speedrunners, especially the queer autistic ones.
(re: queer speedrunners, it sure can't hurt that the classic tetris world championship is hosted here in PDX - it's the highlight of the portland retro gaming festival.)
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:45 (four months ago) link
I almost wonder if the teenage years are the physical peak for speedrunners, like once you hit 20 maybe you can't move your fingers like that, I dunno. I thought about this playing one of the new Mario Party games which re-used a bunch of old minigames and there are some button mashers where I was like, hmmmm I used to be a lot better that this
― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 15:49 (four months ago) link
I think it's more that when you're a teen you can prioritize speedrunning goals as the most important thing in your life - you can dedicate yourself to hobbies like that because you have the literal time and because you have that youthful passion that drives you in those years. But yes definitely helps to have those quick youthful reflexes!
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 16:36 (four months ago) link
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, January 3, 2024 10:45 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
If you ever watch that speedrun charity event AGDQ it's FULL of trans speedrunners. Seems to be a really good community.
― Evan, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 16:37 (four months ago) link
I play tetris to relax, the thought of speedrunning stresses me out.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:00 (four months ago) link
If you ever watch that speedrun charity event AGDQ it's FULL of trans speedrunners. Seems to be a really good community.― Evan
― Evan
yeah it took me seeing a lot of people transition before i was able to figure shit out, one of them was narcissa wright
it's been awesome seeing the community evolve, i started following TASes when morimoto's SMB3 video came out around '03 and since then we've all just gotten gayer and gayer
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 21:22 (four months ago) link
showed my 9 year old son the video of the kid beating it (well, the last 4 minutes of it) and he now has a new hero, it's great
we play this version of Tetris on the Switch called "Tetris 99"...its a battle style game that imo is way too complicated, kinda underscores what a perfect game Tetris is, it commands your full attention at all times
― frogbs, Sunday, 7 January 2024 04:11 (three months ago) link