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A 13-year-old is the first human to beat Tetris | Numerous theoretical milestones remain (www.techspot.com)

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It has been done with a TAS, so it's at least theoretically possible. There aren't any technical barriers that would prevent a human from being able to do it; the drop speed no longer goes up after level 29, so no new techniques would be needed to hit buttons faster. Avoiding the kill screen conditions would be incredibly difficult, as would playing through glitched level colors.

All of which is incredibly difficult and will require even a top player to do hundreds of plays to get it to hit once. That's par for the course in these sorts of competitive games, and it should be possible. Question is how many years it will take.

[–] darkpanda@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Any idea how long such a run would take? This kill screen took around 40 minutes I think? I

’m not a Tetris community member but I’m interested in the whole ordeal as a gamer in general and programmer, and these sorts of things are interesting as an intersection of the two. I’ve also been playing Tetris since before it even came out on the NES or GameBoy and still play it in various instalments from time to time. I think I have to consider it to be the perfect video game in concept to this day, and seeing it get so much love after all these years is endearing to those of us who remember its beginnings.