How insane is it that 12 years later Cheez is on the road to eventually getting double this score on the new format and casually playing level 29. How far this game has come is truly incredible
He got two each left well tetrises at levels 26, 27, and 28. I was counting. And one of the level 28 ones was a dirty one, by one line. Harry fucking Hong does not need your weak ass right wells.
@@almostliterally593 due to the fact that tetris pieces are automatically placed to the right side of the matrix, its slower to move pieces to the left
Dr.Beef lol COD is a skill game 😂😂 I played cod since mw2 and played competitively since mw3 and master league black ops 2. Ain't no skill involved. Csgo is much more skill oriented game
lmfao triggered COD fanboy...I was there at one point too bro. I'm sure you'll see reality some day. Prize pools are so high because the franchise is so popular. Popularity= Lots of sales = lots of $$$. I know pubs aren't competitive. They're a joke lol also idk why I have to post about comp on my page... last game i played was ghosts (shit game) and this account was made waaaaaaaaaaayy after that xD. I'm not saying COD isn't fun, isn't popular. It definitely is. But compared to other e-sports, the skill gap is laughable. So lemme retract my previous statement and say this: COD takes way less skill than other esports. Not denying that it takes SOME skill, but not a whole lot.
quit saying it's chess to try to legitimize it or make it sound like a 'smart' game. it's not chess, it's cod. not denying it takes skill, but quit calling it chess. they're two totally different things. even if CoD has some strategy in it, so does tetris and so would 2p vs dr mario. so does anything at a competitive level. that doesn't make it chess.
yes because pay has a correlation to skills lol. as for there being more people trying to knock the top players from the top...the CoD eSports community has been dying for years. viewership on streams have gone down. it has a competitive aspect but its a way more casual game than counterstrike or LoL with way more (quantitatively) casual players and it is very noob friendly. people arent constantly tryin to rank up to a higher skill group or any of that. tbh i think CoD should add something like ranks into the game to revitalize the community or give it a sort of boost. like i said, I'm not saying COD isn't fun, isn't popular. It definitely is. But compared to other e-sports, the skill gap is laughable. very easy game to master. that being said, my mom smashed my console when i was a senior in high school. since then i been playing PC games competitively like Counterstrike and LoL. like i said i was master division in BO2 but when i arrived on csgo, i was destroyed by everyone. there was so much new stuff to learn like smoke spots on 5-7 competitive maps, movement (effects aim), counterstrafing, spray patterns of like 6 different guns, holding angles, rotations, how to manage economy and eco rounds, aiming at head instead of body/chest, bhoping, etc. I been playing for about 3 years now and im only gold nova 3-4 (very average rank) in competitive play. that can just show you how much complexity there is compared to CoD (again not saying there isnt complexity to CoD or it isnt a fun game or its not fun to watch, just there is comparitively MORE complexity in cs or league or these other esports). you could be a master in CoD but only gold in csgo. just look at Bigtymers csgo series on his channel that he used to do. I think he made it to like master guardian or something (little better than gold). Even before that series started, he had experience in counterstrike so that should say a lot. also i think im pretty decent at chess
I first watched this video in 2015 and was inspired to try maxing out myself. A few games and 8 years later and I finally did it. Thanks for the inspiration, this game is awesome!
the dude can instantly place pieces where they're suppose to go on the hardest game in the universe, but has to go slow to enter his name. That's probably not true, but I just found that funny.
Beau Ferchaud If you to see someone who can instantly place pieces then look up Joseph Saelee. He has also got a score of 999,999, and he got past level 30.
@@shadyfruit I was referring to the person who posted the video (in the description) by saying it's not humanly possible to purposefully place the blocks at 29. It basically saying he made it to the top as if no one can do it if he can't.
"Once level 29 is reached, it is humanly impossible to effectively maneuver the pieces. The game was meant to end at level 29." Joseph Saelee: I'm about tho ruin this wholes man career!
+Sean Wilson Using "tetriminos": (Nosliw) strategywiki.org/wiki/Tetris_Party/Tetriminos strategywiki.org/wiki/Tetris_Party/Tetriminos Using "tetriminoes": tetris.wiki/Tetromino en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tetromino (on the image description) I think both are accepted.
Bloody awesome!!! It definitely feels genuine: there are mistakes and perilous patches in the mix, but the strategies were often perfectly executed even at insanely high speeds.... it was pretty mesmerizing i must say. Bravo!!!!
+beefcurtainz69 that's brings excitement! It depends on the situation. Right now this person is just moving colors around. No motivation, no cheering just nothing. In games like Soccer or Golf it's more exciting cause almost everyone in the world is involved in it
@@Manny4356 Rolling wasn't created until 2020, then used for the first time in a tournament in 2021. At the time, there was only DAS and two known people who played with hypertapping.
Q: Why did you stop on level 29? A: Once level 29 is reached, it is humanly impossible to effectively maneuver the pieces. The game was meant to end at level 29 Do you know who Joseph is? XD
@@ThinkAboutVic Joseph is incredibly fortunate to live in an age of technology where he can easily learn from others and watch how they play in an instant over the internet. Thor didn't have that luxury when he was a youngster in the 90's doing this stuff. That goes a long way. There will definitely be more Joseph's out there in the near future.
The colors depend on the level. he starts with level 18, which has the colors blue, red and white and of course you always play very long at your starting level, but you can see at 4:55-5:13 that the colors in level 19 are brown, orange and white. If he had started with level 19, he would have played with this colors most of the time
Jacob Terwilleger Yes, this is true,. but at the time the game was released, the Russian flag had only the color red because Russia was still part oft the USSR. It could also have been a subversive message, because the old Zarist Russian flag has the same colors as the modern one, but because the colors are different in every level, I guess it was just a coincidence.
Pretty sure this is Harry Hong's video. He is ridiculously good at Tetris and he doesn't cheat. He was the Classic Tetris World Champion a couple years ago. During this year's tournament he maxed out twice during trials.
Thor reached level 30. It's in the documentary Tetris: The Ecstasy of the Order. Lovely film. I recommend it. So it is possible, and the film records him doing it. It was... magical. But then again, I'm an enthusiast. Not to say this isn't. This skill on display here is absolutely magnificent.
As an old timer (I was 9 when the game came out) who found out about the CTWC in 2016, this is weird to watch on so many levels. Had I seen it first in 1990-2009, my jaw would be on the floor. In 2016, I would be wondering why he's playing "backwards", but still floored. In 2017, having watched two different CTWC's, I'd be wondering when Twin Galaxies would lax their position on the score cap. In 2018, I would be simultaneously treating this as the eulogy for old timers while also kind of excited for the new class of player. But today, I can just enjoy this piece of history connected to the first game to ever captivate me...one I still enjoy as a filthy casual to this day.
@dickclarkfan1 It's not a bug or cheat. Selecting a starting level is part of the game, and selecting levels past 10 is explained in the instruction manual. Everything is balanced with this in mind, so its obvious the developers wanted players to be able to start on whatever level they choose.
@d2girls In this game, Levels 19-28 are the fastest speed that is indefinitely sustainable. Once you reach Level 29, the gravity restricts your play to the bottom few rows. The only feasible strategies for reaching Level 30 are to have a very tall stack and center gap going in, or to be able to tap left/right incredibly fast to exceed the default autorepeat rate of 10 moves per second. Other Tetris games have mechanics such as lock delay or faster move speeds that make faster speeds possible.
VHS.... brings me back to my childhood in the late 80's and early 90's.... even the blury quality and the hissing noises found in VHS recordings.... Good memories. Yup even remember just putting on song 3 and letting it play for a good amount of time back then.
Level 30 has been achieved. It's officially on twin galaxies website. If you go from level 29 to level 30 it actually gives you level 00 When you enter your name later on, it says level 30. So it can be achieved, but ir is really...really...really hard to get to level 30.
At the time Harry recorded and submitted this, he was the only one who was known with a maxout. It was only when people heard of his feat that they began searching for other great Tetris players, and so Neubauer, Harrison, Kerr, Mullen, Wilcox, Kelkar, and Aackerlund, etc. all surfaced. Nowadays, most competitors at the CTWC have maxed the game out.
Its funny the guy came commenting about "tetris community" but didnt even realized he was on a Harry Hong the legend himself video, the 1st Tetris Master seeked to start the Tetris documentary whod eventually Begin CTWC. This video is pure history. By that time Harry was the only one who had proof on max out.
@MrSambaboy I'd say it's likely for them to have a working VCR, but on top of that, they may have chose that format to give it a more nostalgic vibe. One of my favorite NES titles. Gauntlet (also Tengen) also comes to mind.
well i believe that this person was using hacks because he knew wat block is next and he knew exactly wer to put it When I was 12 I had my first sexual experience. At the time, I lived in a little suburb outside of Cleveland and anyway, the girl next door and I were really good friends. Our parents were both gone for the day and she was over playing Transformers with me. So anyway, we kinda got.. Bored I guess? And we started playing truth or dare, which turned into 'you show me yours, I'll show you mine". So anyway there I Was, 12 years old, heart pounding, blood rushing in my ears, and the chick (who was a year older than me actually) takes off her panties and hikes her little skirt up. So What did I do, you ask? I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, the license plate said "fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought "naw forget it, yo home to bel-air!" I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabbie "yo homes smell ya later!" Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there. To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air.
If you start on levels past 10, the game uses a different formula for the first level-up. This is to prevent easy max-outs starting from Level 18 or 19; the game is shortened to compensate for the much higher scoring potential. Also, he _did_ attend CTWC, as did the other max-out players. In a competition setting, it's better to aim for consistency than risk death in hopes of a higher score. I watched these guys play 900k scores the day before CTWC 2010, but on game day it wasn't worth a loss
Impressive. Best score I ever got was around 200k I believe ... and it was either level 13 or 14. That was on the original hardware NES starting at level 0 and going up from there. TBH, after level 10 I personally think was 100% luck. I stopped trying to get a full Tetris lines after like, level 8 ... after that, it was "whatever it takes to get lines and survive." Fun game. Traded many hours of my life for this game. Don't regret it either.
its upsetting that people dont realize this is the hardest thing to do in any tetris lol, people think grandmaster is faster, thats for people who cant go fast, the piece hits the ground and you have time to move it around while its down, this is the only legit tetris
@@brodindamp Yeah, compare maxing out from Level 19 in NEStris reaching the credits in TGM3. You'll find out very quickly that it's not as clear cut as it seems.
@@tylerlarsen1842 Indeed, it's very difficult to compare. Reaching the credits in TGM3 may not be as hard as NES 19 maxout, but GM grade is definitely much harder (at least in my opinion).
its not harder its a different skill set. Getting a sub 20 40l is insanely hard and in no way easier than this, but getting a maxout is also insanely hard and in no way easier than a sub 20. Its different skillsets
I wanted to question the legitimacy of this... but after starting at Level 10 on my game, it moved to Level 11 at 100 lines instead of 110 like it normally does, leading me to believe the required lines for levels changes if you start a game 10 levels higher than the selected level. I could also swear that starting 10 levels higher than selected did NOT affect the score for lines made, but I am probably thinking of a different version. Good job, man. Very impressive.
The amount of lines required for transition does change if you do the 10+ level code. Also, this one does affect the score as well, it's the Gameboy version that doesn't affect score.
@julionguyen2084technically it soft bricked, but in a game like this, that's really all to "beat". It's like pacman, the "end" is just the killscreen.
Also you saying its the "Official world Record" doesnt make it, sure you hit the max but I'm sure you wernt the first and even if you were you did it in a pretty slow time to what others have finished it in...just Sayajin :p
For this game, NES Tetris, anyone who limits the game at 999,999 is an official record holder, however, lvl 29 at 999,999 points was surpassed by Thor Aackerlund by reaching lvl 30 at 999,999 points.
Ryan Gribble not really, since it caps at points the way to judge the Record in circumstances like this would then go to the time it took, sorry to rain on your parade and no hard feelings but....yeah
Matt03785 Were you playing the European version or something? Because that one does hit that speed at 19 instead. On the North American cart, though, it's at 29.
kitaru2004 no idea...I'm playing on an emulator, and at 19 it comes down at an impossible speed...also whats up with it being 4 levels behind? For expample his hitting 140 lines is = to me hitting 100 lines, so when i'm at 190 lines he's at 230 lines thus having a higher score
If you start on Levels 10-19, there is line scaling that makes the game shorter -- it makes it about equally difficult to max-out starting from any level, instead of the higher levels being too easy. He is starting at 18, so it takes 130 lines to progress to 19.
Wait... WAI WAIT WAIT FUCKING SHIT MY RECORD IS 227 LINES! YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT I WAS LITERALLY 3 AWAY FROM BREAKING A WORLD RECORD!?!?!?!?!?! FUCK Edit. Just smashed that. New record is 337 lines
World Record is done by points, not lines. The game doesn't give a crap about how many lines you have, hence you don't get different endings based on the amount of lines, but only points.
It's the world record for points. you can't get higher than 999,999 because the game wont let you. Once you hit level 29 it's considered a kill screen because the pieces drop too fast. Only one person is known to have beaten level 29....and his name is Thor (not joking look it up).
in actual Tetris, the World record is well over 1,000,000, and that was before 1999, so you are you completely full of shit if you think I will believe that Tetris players didn't reach the score cap within the first month or two the game was out.
I am mostly trying to say that this video doesn't matter that much at all, it is just someone reaching a point cap that is less than other versions of the game. Also, putting official world record in the title makes it seem like this person set said record, which is most likely false.
Well, this is recognized by the official Tetris websites and channels. As is the case with many world records, it is possible other players have set better records, but the important thing is that this score was submitted for verification. It wasn't a mere screenshot of a score or some rumors passed around message boards in the early days of the internet. Also, the world record of over 1,000,000, only reachable with a Game Genie code, has only been achieved recently, by someone who can attest to the legitimacy of Harry Hong. If you're also very familiar with this version of Tetris, you would know how insanely difficult it is. It was an entirely new game from Russia so it took a while for players to become good at it. Even if there were people who maxed the game before Harry, it's irrelevant because they never submitted a record that was verified. Go check out Harry's stream on Twitch if you doubt his skills. He maxed out twice just yesterday during a competition.
Exactly why I'd argue there should be an attainable limit. NES Tetris would still be alright without a score cap because the game has a pretty firm ending, but it would be better for a game without a solid ending to have a maximum score rather than be a competition of who can play for the longest. Still, even in this case, there is just something special about the max-out score.
I'm in love with this game!! I have been playing Tetris Ultimate on PS4 (Blue Belt), but it is not the same, unfortunately. Cannot wait to get my hands on Tetris Effect.
Cheat: 1.Hold A while choosing a level and when you choose for example: level 8,its gonna be level 28. 2. At the start menu,watch the demo till it get 8 lines and when the screen start blinking,press a and then choose any level,you will get points of that demo. Thumbs up so everyone can see it.
I just watched this documentary on Roku and actually, I did this a few times too. I was about 10 & 11 yrs old in '90 & '91. My mom was also a "Tetris Junkie" and she remembers me "solving" the game first. She did it too eventually. Sadly,not even my hubby believes me just because back then there were was no one videoing my 100+ hours of play to "prove" those moments. lol. He's 10 years older than me so this game wasn't such a big deal to him. It was to my Fam though. :)
I achieved 999999 points in 2007. Back there I thought many other players had achieved it. Of course people won't believe me since it was not recorded that time, so I can't prove it. Harry Hong wasn't the first, and not even me, probaly. The world is big...
It's not a cheat -- it's even in the instruction manual. The game is shorter if you start at higher levels (ex: Level 18 goes to 19 at 130 lines instead of 190), so it's perfectly balanced to max out the score from any level you choose.
You beat the shit outta Howard and Otasan's scores. I can just hear them now... Howard: "Hey Otasan, I got to level 9, the game told me I'm a tetris master!" Otasan: "Damn, you beat my score of level 5 :/" SuPa: "I made it to level 29 and got a world record of 999,999. I'll take that title of tetris master now :)" Both: "Shit."
I honestly haven't played since the early 90s. At my best, I would start at level 8 and maybe get to level 13-14. Then it became way too fast to react. I also used to play a game called Blockout which was 3-D and it was birds eye view lay out. Both great game and not for quitters.
How insane is it that 12 years later Cheez is on the road to eventually getting double this score on the new format and casually playing level 29. How far this game has come is truly incredible
Game has not gone anywhere. Players have gone beyond what Alexei Pajitnov was able to imagine then.
And he obliterated that goal. The previous record of 1.6 million, to 2.3 million.
Eric did it 3.7 times in one game
@@YellowBlue3x3 now 6 million plus colors
@@haydedanny lol yeah Tetris has evolved........
"Once you reach level 29, it is humanly impossible to effectively manuever the pieces"
Joseph Saelee : *hold my beer..*
yeah, *beer* pfft
The game just begin at level 29. 🌚
Juice* he is 16
Who are you quoting?
when this video was posted saelee hasn't reached level 33 yet. this was like posted 10 years ago.
but he was really kewl i agree
Joseph was 6 at the time
And *BOOM* Tetris for Jeff
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Congratulations, your high score will be erased when you'll turn off the system
+Spooky Ghost on a good old VHS
+TheRVSteam As long as you're not George Costanza, you should be fine.
TheRVSteam there is a battery in the game cardridge that saves the scores, doe the one on my grandpas cartridge ran out years ago
most nes games did not have a battery. Some did. This did not.
It's already on youtube, so nay.
The entire video I was silently screaming: "please transition to a right well please."
He got two each left well tetrises at levels 26, 27, and 28. I was counting. And one of the level 28 ones was a dirty one, by one line.
Harry fucking Hong does not need your weak ass right wells.
Jasper Janssen bro calm fucking down it’s 10 years old he’s ass with right wells too
Beck Da Man no shit.
left well gang
@@evansmith6242 Well gang? I'm floor gang...
It's weird to think that Joseph Saelee was like 7 or 8 when this video was posted.
I thought the same thing
@@SamsarasArt YEs me 2
And Alex T was 1 year old.
Beat the game, launch Russia into space.
So that's how Reagan did it...
well the song is from Russia
That was so stupid that it was actually too funny comment.
I have no memory of this place ._.
It was a nuke more likely.
The fact that he is using a left well makes this actually quite impressive.
Why
@@almostliterally593 because tetrises are much harder to do in a left well, specially post 19
@@almostliterally593 due to the fact that tetris pieces are automatically placed to the right side of the matrix, its slower to move pieces to the left
not being sarcastic, but this takes more skill then the best cod player in the world
ttrue
Dr.Beef lol COD is a skill game 😂😂 I played cod since mw2 and played competitively since mw3 and master league black ops 2. Ain't no skill involved. Csgo is much more skill oriented game
lmfao triggered COD fanboy...I was there at one point too bro. I'm sure you'll see reality some day. Prize pools are so high because the franchise is so popular. Popularity= Lots of sales = lots of $$$. I know pubs aren't competitive. They're a joke lol also idk why I have to post about comp on my page... last game i played was ghosts (shit game) and this account was made waaaaaaaaaaayy after that xD. I'm not saying COD isn't fun, isn't popular. It definitely is. But compared to other e-sports, the skill gap is laughable.
So lemme retract my previous statement and say this: COD takes way less skill than other esports. Not denying that it takes SOME skill, but not a whole lot.
quit saying it's chess to try to legitimize it or make it sound like a 'smart' game. it's not chess, it's cod. not denying it takes skill, but quit calling it chess. they're two totally different things. even if CoD has some strategy in it, so does tetris and so would 2p vs dr mario. so does anything at a competitive level. that doesn't make it chess.
yes because pay has a correlation to skills lol. as for there being more people trying to knock the top players from the top...the CoD eSports community has been dying for years. viewership on streams have gone down. it has a competitive aspect but its a way more casual game than counterstrike or LoL with way more (quantitatively) casual players and it is very noob friendly. people arent constantly tryin to rank up to a higher skill group or any of that. tbh i think CoD should add something like ranks into the game to revitalize the community or give it a sort of boost. like i said, I'm not saying COD isn't fun, isn't popular. It definitely is. But compared to other e-sports, the skill gap is laughable. very easy game to master.
that being said, my mom smashed my console when i was a senior in high school. since then i been playing PC games competitively like Counterstrike and LoL. like i said i was master division in BO2 but when i arrived on csgo, i was destroyed by everyone. there was so much new stuff to learn like smoke spots on 5-7 competitive maps, movement (effects aim), counterstrafing, spray patterns of like 6 different guns, holding angles, rotations, how to manage economy and eco rounds, aiming at head instead of body/chest, bhoping, etc. I been playing for about 3 years now and im only gold nova 3-4 (very average rank) in competitive play. that can just show you how much complexity there is compared to CoD (again not saying there isnt complexity to CoD or it isnt a fun game or its not fun to watch, just there is comparitively MORE complexity in cs or league or these other esports). you could be a master in CoD but only gold in csgo. just look at Bigtymers csgo series on his channel that he used to do. I think he made it to like master guardian or something (little better than gold). Even before that series started, he had experience in counterstrike so that should say a lot.
also i think im pretty decent at chess
8:20 Saddest video game death.
Me 2
NES Tetris is a personal favorite of mine. Brings back many memories! Congratulations on netting the world record and thanks for posting it!
I first watched this video in 2015 and was inspired to try maxing out myself. A few games and 8 years later and I finally did it. Thanks for the inspiration, this game is awesome!
The sound reminds me of the back ol' days.
the dude can instantly place pieces where they're suppose to go on the hardest game in the universe, but has to go slow to enter his name. That's probably not true, but I just found that funny.
Beau Ferchaud If you to see someone who can instantly place pieces then look up Joseph Saelee. He has also got a score of 999,999, and he got past level 30.
@@jacobbarrick6947 but when Harry did this, Joseph was 7 years old :D
@@shadyfruit Yeah but he still screwed himself by saying "humanly impossible" just because he couldn't do it
@@Gunshinzero Who screwed himself by saying that? And why? It'a over a year since I made the comment, so don't remember much tbh 😂
@@shadyfruit I was referring to the person who posted the video (in the description) by saying it's not humanly possible to purposefully place the blocks at 29. It basically saying he made it to the top as if no one can do it if he can't.
ABC News here! May we use this video on all of our platforms in perpetuity? Thanks for considering!
fuck you
+snesie 717 LOL
+ABC News Are you serious?
+snesie 717 no. just no.
+jmluvsgm fuck you 2
"Once level 29 is reached, it is humanly impossible to effectively maneuver the pieces. The game was meant to end at level 29."
Joseph Saelee: I'm about tho ruin this wholes man career!
I love the vhs quality with the nes footage. Extra nostalgic
Yeah but. Bad audio 😅
Statistics:
I Tetriminos: 83
J Tetriminos: 93
L Tetriminos: 79
O Tetriminos: 74
S Tetriminos: 93
T Tetriminos: 78
Z Tetriminos: 93
+Mat Mayuga Tetrominoes*
In Tetris, the pieces are "Tetriminos".
Mat Mayuga Where have you heard that from? I'm actually curious now.
+Sean Wilson Using "tetriminos":
(Nosliw) strategywiki.org/wiki/Tetris_Party/Tetriminos
strategywiki.org/wiki/Tetris_Party/Tetriminos
Using "tetriminoes":
tetris.wiki/Tetromino
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tetromino (on the image description)
I think both are accepted.
Really helpful, thanks for that
I was thinking in my head "lol no life" but then I realized I just watched some dude play Tetris for 9 minutes and that I was the one without a life.
@Ava Poland ME 2
Recognizing is half the battle of recovery.
@@ohwowyes this 8 years old why did you comment
8 years ago...thats how no life meme started then..
Bloody awesome!!! It definitely feels genuine: there are mistakes and perilous patches in the mix, but the strategies were often perfectly executed even at insanely high speeds.... it was pretty mesmerizing i must say. Bravo!!!!
I just watched a guy rearrange colorful blocks into a pine for nearly 10 minutes... Dafuq am I doing with my life?
*line
+Zero Cool lol so true. Watch others chase after a ball and throw it into a metal circle
+beefcurtainz69 that's brings excitement! It depends on the situation. Right now this person is just moving colors around. No motivation, no cheering just nothing. In games like Soccer or Golf it's more exciting cause almost everyone in the world is involved in it
so you haven't watched the world championships yet?
Hitler's Magic Carpet this is no ordinary game. This is one of the best video games ever created and this version is the best of them all
“Gameplay becomes nearly impossible after reaching level 29.”
Cheez: *hold my controller*
Now 999,999 is not a world class player achievement.
Even in official world championship of this game, scores go beyond 999,999.
someone just got 1,6 mill with the rolling technique. its insane.
This video was posted 13 years ago. Idk if this was before or after the rolling technique started being used in Tetris tournaments.
@@Manny4356 dude this was back when people barely hyper tapped lmfao
@@Manny4356 Rolling wasn't created until 2020, then used for the first time in a tournament in 2021. At the time, there was only DAS and two known people who played with hypertapping.
Wow. Your really good at this game, i could never get past level 19. After level 18 the blocks start dropping like rocks
I agree. Level 19 is such a hard level to beat. I've done it a couple times but level 20 is like physically impossible for me lol
*Reads Description*
_>Twin Galaxies_
Did this record get disqualified too?
No, this was done legit. If you're not convinced, this was done by Harry Hong. Yes, that Harry Hong.
Having played this version since its release, this game play is extremely impressive. I found a used copy recently. Definitely one of the classics.
This music feels so surreal and creepy
Q: Why did you stop on level 29?
A: Once level 29 is reached, it is humanly impossible to effectively maneuver the pieces. The game was meant to end at level 29
Do you know who Joseph is? XD
Joseph was 7 years old when he did this. SEVEN F*CKING YEARS OLD
@@ThinkAboutVic Joseph is incredibly fortunate to live in an age of technology where he can easily learn from others and watch how they play in an instant over the internet. Thor didn't have that luxury when he was a youngster in the 90's doing this stuff. That goes a long way. There will definitely be more Joseph's out there in the near future.
Damn, him making it so symmetrical is so satisfying
Hi
If this game is Russian, then why are the all the tetris shapes USA colors?
The colors depend on the level. he starts with level 18, which has the colors blue, red and white and of course you always play very long at your starting level, but you can see at 4:55-5:13 that the colors in level 19 are brown, orange and white. If he had started with level 19, he would have played with this colors most of the time
The current Russian flag is red, white, and blue anyways.
Jacob Terwilleger
Yes, this is true,. but at the time the game was released, the Russian flag had only the color red because Russia was still part oft the USSR. It could also have been a subversive message, because the old Zarist Russian flag has the same colors as the modern one, but because the colors are different in every level, I guess it was just a coincidence.
actually it was made by a russian american person who made this game
Because it’s legal
so basically he maxed out the score counter ensuring no one could beat his record
you should watch this www.imdb.com/title/tt1836974/
It looks like he is cheating or extremely lucky. This dude gets a long piece every fucking time he needs one.
Pretty sure this is Harry Hong's video. He is ridiculously good at Tetris and he doesn't cheat. He was the Classic Tetris World Champion a couple years ago. During this year's tournament he maxed out twice during trials.
Sam Harris Maybe he's using his moves to manipulate the game, I'm sure that if you're skilled enough you can do it.
c0mpu73rguy you can't is all random
Thor reached level 30. It's in the documentary Tetris: The Ecstasy of the Order. Lovely film. I recommend it. So it is possible, and the film records him doing it. It was... magical. But then again, I'm an enthusiast. Not to say this isn't. This skill on display here is absolutely magnificent.
wayfareangel Joseph reached level 33.
@@arfansthename but thor is legend
And decades later lvl 38 was reached by EricICX
@@tokenofdevotion level 60 now
The last Q&A is outdated because some people have actually gone past level 29.
13 years later, we found 6 Million points for a human and 102 Million for TAS
First time i actually enjoyed watching tetris...
As an old timer (I was 9 when the game came out) who found out about the CTWC in 2016, this is weird to watch on so many levels.
Had I seen it first in 1990-2009, my jaw would be on the floor.
In 2016, I would be wondering why he's playing "backwards", but still floored.
In 2017, having watched two different CTWC's, I'd be wondering when Twin Galaxies would lax their position on the score cap.
In 2018, I would be simultaneously treating this as the eulogy for old timers while also kind of excited for the new class of player.
But today, I can just enjoy this piece of history connected to the first game to ever captivate me...one I still enjoy as a filthy casual to this day.
Even GOAT of Tetris and seven-time CTWC winner Master Jonas Neubauer was filthy casual. He was just tremendously experienced filthy casual.
im actually just here for the sweet soundtrack
thumbs up
Wow, finally found Harry’s channel on TH-cam, and also I can’t believe he used to play this game with a left well
he did this by doing left well tetris all game...
@dickclarkfan1 It's not a bug or cheat. Selecting a starting level is part of the game, and selecting levels past 10 is explained in the instruction manual. Everything is balanced with this in mind, so its obvious the developers wanted players to be able to start on whatever level they choose.
This is just one of those games that you can go on playing for hours and hours without getting bored
🧢
@d2girls In this game, Levels 19-28 are the fastest speed that is indefinitely sustainable. Once you reach Level 29, the gravity restricts your play to the bottom few rows. The only feasible strategies for reaching Level 30 are to have a very tall stack and center gap going in, or to be able to tap left/right incredibly fast to exceed the default autorepeat rate of 10 moves per second.
Other Tetris games have mechanics such as lock delay or faster move speeds that make faster speeds possible.
"Once level 29 is reached, it is humanly impossible to effectively maneuver the pieces."
*or is it*
10 years today . You're a wizard Harry
Sounds like your at a super market waiting to buy your food
Lol
I never played this game with that audio track. lol
VHS.... brings me back to my childhood in the late 80's and early 90's.... even the blury quality and the hissing noises found in VHS recordings.... Good memories. Yup even remember just putting on song 3 and letting it play for a good amount of time back then.
the vcr noise hurts my ears
Level 30 has been achieved. It's officially on twin galaxies website.
If you go from level 29 to level 30 it actually gives you level 00
When you enter your name later on, it says level 30. So it can be achieved, but ir is really...really...really hard to get to level 30.
8:49 Howard is somewhere, crying into his cornflakes.
lol
Well
This from 2009
Congratulations for who played this game and recorded this video
His name is Harry Hong - He has played in many CTWC championships
This is called a "max out" by the tetris community. Nearly everyone who has competed in official tetris tournaments has achieved this multiple times.
No they haven't, there are only around 20 people world wide (I'm pretty sure) who can claim a legitimate max out
There was one guy playing even farther max score and somewhen the level counter went from 29 to 00
@@Arrica101 I believe it is now in the 30s but still
At the time Harry recorded and submitted this, he was the only one who was known with a maxout. It was only when people heard of his feat that they began searching for other great Tetris players, and so Neubauer, Harrison, Kerr, Mullen, Wilcox, Kelkar, and Aackerlund, etc. all surfaced.
Nowadays, most competitors at the CTWC have maxed the game out.
Its funny the guy came commenting about "tetris community" but didnt even realized he was on a Harry Hong the legend himself video, the 1st Tetris Master seeked to start the Tetris documentary whod eventually Begin CTWC.
This video is pure history. By that time Harry was the only one who had proof on max out.
@MrSambaboy I'd say it's likely for them to have a working VCR, but on top of that, they may have chose that format to give it a more nostalgic vibe. One of my favorite NES titles. Gauntlet (also Tengen) also comes to mind.
well i believe that this person was using hacks because he knew wat block is next and he knew exactly wer to put it When I was 12 I had my first sexual experience. At the time, I lived in a little suburb outside of Cleveland and anyway, the girl next door and I were really good friends. Our parents were both gone for the day and she was over playing Transformers with me. So anyway, we kinda got.. Bored I guess? And we started playing truth or dare, which turned into 'you show me yours, I'll show you mine". So anyway there I Was, 12 years old, heart pounding, blood rushing in my ears, and the chick (who was a year older than me actually) takes off her panties and hikes her little skirt up. So What did I do, you ask? I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, the license plate said "fresh" and there were dice in the mirror. If anything I could say that this cab was rare, but I thought "naw forget it, yo home to bel-air!" I pulled up to the house about seven or eight and I yelled to the cabbie "yo homes smell ya later!" Looked at my kingdom, I was finally there. To settle my throne as the prince of bel-air.
nice plot twists
what did i just read
+Jaeho Kim Some shitty copy and paste job that was badly implemented.
Beautiful, just missing the dinosaur
yup. look like bullshit to me.
If you start on levels past 10, the game uses a different formula for the first level-up. This is to prevent easy max-outs starting from Level 18 or 19; the game is shortened to compensate for the much higher scoring potential.
Also, he _did_ attend CTWC, as did the other max-out players. In a competition setting, it's better to aim for consistency than risk death in hopes of a higher score. I watched these guys play 900k scores the day before CTWC 2010, but on game day it wasn't worth a loss
i thought i wuz good when i hit 363k wtf is this guy
A world champion
So your telling me the first max out ever recorded was done with a fucking left side well? That's actually bonkers. Wp harry.
This man has more skill then the whole world combined
Oh my sweet summer child
Great video. This is like watching Gasparov play speed chess, drive a car and play tennis all at ones! :D
2009: First 999.999
2019: 999.999 is nothing, gg code is used to score 1.2+
2009: 29 is impossible
2019: Boom 33 for jdmfx
Awesome game, had me scared for a second, but you are a great recovery artist!
And now 999,999 is nothing
Impressive. Best score I ever got was around 200k I believe ... and it was either level 13 or 14. That was on the original hardware NES starting at level 0 and going up from there. TBH, after level 10 I personally think was 100% luck. I stopped trying to get a full Tetris lines after like, level 8 ... after that, it was "whatever it takes to get lines and survive."
Fun game. Traded many hours of my life for this game. Don't regret it either.
its upsetting that people dont realize this is the hardest thing to do in any tetris lol, people think grandmaster is faster, thats for people who cant go fast, the piece hits the ground and you have time to move it around while its down, this is the only legit tetris
Zbrown i still believe tgm 3 is harder
@@brodindamp Yeah, compare maxing out from Level 19 in NEStris reaching the credits in TGM3. You'll find out very quickly that it's not as clear cut as it seems.
@@tylerlarsen1842 Indeed, it's very difficult to compare. Reaching the credits in TGM3 may not be as hard as NES 19 maxout, but GM grade is definitely much harder (at least in my opinion).
its not harder its a different skill set. Getting a sub 20 40l is insanely hard and in no way easier than this, but getting a maxout is also insanely hard and in no way easier than a sub 20. Its different skillsets
I wanted to question the legitimacy of this... but after starting at Level 10 on my game, it moved to Level 11 at 100 lines instead of 110 like it normally does, leading me to believe the required lines for levels changes if you start a game 10 levels higher than the selected level. I could also swear that starting 10 levels higher than selected did NOT affect the score for lines made, but I am probably thinking of a different version.
Good job, man. Very impressive.
The amount of lines required for transition does change if you do the 10+ level code. Also, this one does affect the score as well, it's the Gameboy version that doesn't affect score.
Who’s here after that story of that 13-year-old boy who beat Tetris?
I think the kid did it faster
me haha
yeah, the game just freezes, because, no, there's no real ending to Tetris, of course@julionguyen2084
@julionguyen2084technically it soft bricked, but in a game like this, that's really all to "beat". It's like pacman, the "end" is just the killscreen.
me
Once again, congrats Harry! I never get tired of watching this video. ^_^
-PJ
Also you saying its the "Official world Record" doesnt make it, sure you hit the max but I'm sure you wernt the first and even if you were you did it in a pretty slow time to what others have finished it in...just Sayajin :p
For this game, NES Tetris, anyone who limits the game at 999,999 is an official record holder, however, lvl 29 at 999,999 points was surpassed by Thor Aackerlund by reaching lvl 30 at 999,999 points.
Ryan Gribble not really, since it caps at points the way to judge the Record in circumstances like this would then go to the time it took, sorry to rain on your parade and no hard feelings but....yeah
Ryan Gribble level has nothing to do with the accomplishment, its fairly obvious he dies on purpose after the attained 999,999. don't be a hater.
It was the first time in history that someone reached the 999,999 score, that's why it's a World Record.
Haha nice pun lmao
I’m surprised there’s still newer comments
I love the music xD
Just watching the shapes fall perfectly into place is like ASMR. 😧
Bullshit IMO, You say at level 29 its not humanly possible to go further, this actually happens at level 19
Or your not good at the game.
Matt03785 Were you playing the European version or something? Because that one does hit that speed at 19 instead. On the North American cart, though, it's at 29.
kitaru2004 no idea...I'm playing on an emulator, and at 19 it comes down at an impossible speed...also whats up with it being 4 levels behind? For expample his hitting 140 lines is = to me hitting 100 lines, so when i'm at 190 lines he's at 230 lines thus having a higher score
If you start on Levels 10-19, there is line scaling that makes the game shorter -- it makes it about equally difficult to max-out starting from any level, instead of the higher levels being too easy. He is starting at 18, so it takes 130 lines to progress to 19.
@Shane The Doge the tetris website version is very different from this one
btw my best run on the website barely made it to level 24
WTF did I just see?! I can beat Howard's score but I'll never come close to Supa's score. Damn.
Wait... WAI WAIT WAIT FUCKING SHIT MY RECORD IS 227 LINES! YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT I WAS LITERALLY 3 AWAY FROM BREAKING A WORLD RECORD!?!?!?!?!?! FUCK
Edit. Just smashed that. New record is 337 lines
DAAAAMN!
rip
Nope. World record is 296.
World Record is done by points, not lines. The game doesn't give a crap about how many lines you have, hence you don't get different endings based on the amount of lines, but only points.
It's the world record for points. you can't get higher than 999,999 because the game wont let you. Once you hit level 29 it's considered a kill screen because the pieces drop too fast. Only one person is known to have beaten level 29....and his name is Thor (not joking look it up).
This... does bring a smile to my face
Also I
this person has done nothing but play tetris for 30 years straight while being fed through an IV
My god and just when you thought it wouldn't get any faster, IT DOES.
in actual Tetris, the World record is well over 1,000,000, and that was before 1999, so you are you completely full of shit if you think I will believe that Tetris players didn't reach the score cap within the first month or two the game was out.
"NES Tetris - 999,999 (Official World Record)"
Read the title or the description after talking shit on the comment section.
I am mostly trying to say that this video doesn't matter that much at all, it is just someone reaching a point cap that is less than other versions of the game. Also, putting official world record in the title makes it seem like this person set said record, which is most likely false.
Pencil Twist Gtfo.
Well, this is recognized by the official Tetris websites and channels. As is the case with many world records, it is possible other players have set better records, but the important thing is that this score was submitted for verification. It wasn't a mere screenshot of a score or some rumors passed around message boards in the early days of the internet.
Also, the world record of over 1,000,000, only reachable with a Game Genie code, has only been achieved recently, by someone who can attest to the legitimacy of Harry Hong.
If you're also very familiar with this version of Tetris, you would know how insanely difficult it is. It was an entirely new game from Russia so it took a while for players to become good at it. Even if there were people who maxed the game before Harry, it's irrelevant because they never submitted a record that was verified.
Go check out Harry's stream on Twitch if you doubt his skills. He maxed out twice just yesterday during a competition.
I remember playing this game when it first came out with my friend his family. The music is hypnotic.
awesome, just awesome. thank you so much for the upload!
That was extremely satisfying to watch, gotdamn
Exactly why I'd argue there should be an attainable limit. NES Tetris would still be alright without a score cap because the game has a pretty firm ending, but it would be better for a game without a solid ending to have a maximum score rather than be a competition of who can play for the longest.
Still, even in this case, there is just something special about the max-out score.
I'm in love with this game!! I have been playing Tetris Ultimate on PS4 (Blue Belt), but it is not the same, unfortunately. Cannot wait to get my hands on Tetris Effect.
Did this in the 90’s, thanks.
Cheat:
1.Hold A while choosing a level and when you choose for example: level 8,its gonna be level 28.
2. At the start menu,watch the demo till it get 8 lines and when the screen start blinking,press a and then choose any level,you will get points of that demo.
Thumbs up so everyone can see it.
This clip deserves digital enhancement.
A left well DAS maxout is definitely the hardest achievement I can think of in nes tetris. What a game!
I just watched this documentary on Roku and actually, I did this a few times too. I was about 10 & 11 yrs old in '90 & '91. My mom was also a "Tetris Junkie" and she remembers me "solving" the game first. She did it too eventually. Sadly,not even my hubby believes me just because back then there were was no one videoing my 100+ hours of play to "prove" those moments. lol. He's 10 years older than me so this game wasn't such a big deal to him. It was to my Fam though. :)
I achieved 999999 points in 2007. Back there I thought many other players had achieved it. Of course people won't believe me since it was not recorded that time, so I can't prove it. Harry Hong wasn't the first, and not even me, probaly. The world is big...
Seria ótimo um brasileiro no CTWC. Pq não pratica? Eu patrocino tua stream
Love your vids and watching you play but shouldn’t you edit your vid title if this is no longer the WR anymore?
This was one of the hardest versions of Tetris, not like today's versions where you can save columns or hold them and twist them into slots etc;
Holy shit sun your good. The best I can do is level 10 I can’t do this. Jesus Christ my mind can’t work like that bro keep it up
The end music for this game @8:27 is the theme music for Don Flamenco from Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
it's a trick. hold start button then choose the level. it will add 10 on the selected level, in that case, 8 turns into 18.
The game that started it all… and level 29 is now level 39.
2009: 11 Years Ago
2020: 11 Years Later
It's not a cheat -- it's even in the instruction manual. The game is shorter if you start at higher levels (ex: Level 18 goes to 19 at 130 lines instead of 190), so it's perfectly balanced to max out the score from any level you choose.
As a fellow Tetris player, I can say that you are GOOD!
I love how Harry was using left well for all of level 18 lmao and then he goes back to left well at level 27
You beat the shit outta Howard and Otasan's scores.
I can just hear them now...
Howard: "Hey Otasan, I got to level 9, the game told me I'm a tetris master!"
Otasan: "Damn, you beat my score of level 5 :/"
SuPa: "I made it to level 29 and got a world record of 999,999. I'll take that title of tetris master now :)"
Both: "Shit."
I honestly haven't played since the early 90s. At my best, I would start at level 8 and maybe get to level 13-14. Then it became way too fast to react. I also used to play a game called Blockout which was 3-D and it was birds eye view lay out. Both great game and not for quitters.