Tetris lasts forever. The blocks keep coming and the game itself becomes reinterpretedtwisted and redone for new generations. Today a 13-year-old boy became the first person to 'beat” the NES version of Tetris, 34 years after its first release.
Yes, “beat” is in quotes because there is no way to end the game. Instead, he played a game so perfect that he forced a kill screen, due to an overflow error . While he is the first person to do this, but this isn't the first time this has been done: an AI program called StackRabbit forced a kill screen with the NES Tetris in 2021.
But hey, we finally got there.
–Mat Smith
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