Back in 1989, Nintendo released Tetris for the NES. This detailed article first explains the mechanics of how Tetris works, then builds an AI to play the game. To understand the mechanics of the ...

The NES version of Tetris has been around for over 34 years, but a human has just completed it for the first time. Tetris on NES does not have a traditional ending; beating this game means ...

Taking this to the extreme, [numeric] abused the user-defined characters to write a tiny game of Tetris that would run in the 10×16 frame that you get when you combine four characters together.

IT’S one of the best-loved video games of all time – and now Tetris’s 40th anniversary is set to be celebrated with the largest interactive multiplayer version of the game ever. From next ...

Please verify your email address. A 16-year-old Tetris player achieved the first-ever "rebirth" by clearing level 255 on a special NES rom version. The gamer set ...

35 years after its release, @dogplayingtris just became the first person to get the NES Tetris rebirth. He made it all the way to level 255, then the game wrapped around and restarted from level 0.

The NES Tetris arms race finally seems to be over— while Tetris (NES) was finally "beaten" at level 157 in December 2023, culminating in the first human-reached "Kill screen" crash, it has ...

As the first iteration of Tetris, you might think the Game Boy and NES versions to be rather simplistic and unimpressive, but they're still pretty solid versions of the game, especially if you ...

A two-time Tetris world champion recently became the first person, without machine assistance, to activate endless play by completing level 255 in the NES version, causing the game to restart at ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The NES Tetris arms race finally seems to be over— while Tetris (NES) was finally "beaten ...

Tetris Forever will be available for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X. The NES version of Tetris is arguably 'beaten' after 34 years, as a player ...

A new milestone in the world of Tetris: after the original NES version was played to the point of crashing for the first time at the end of last year, someone has now survived all 255 for the ...