Why it Took Tetris Pros 33 Years to Reach This Screen

The story of how one 1989 Tetris player embarked on a 5 month grind to reach a screen that not even the developers of the game had encountered.

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Clips Featured:
Classic Tetris World Championship:    / @classictetris  
Classic Tetris Monthly:    / monthlytetris  
BrightonPopsOff:    • [NES Tetris] Hypertapping tutorial: H...  
Harry Hong:    / supasayajin  
Cheez:    / cheeztetris  
Huffulufugus:    / huffulufugus  
HydrantDude:    / @hydrantdude3642  
GregBoomCannon:    / gregslife7  
Bugged Colors Table: https://meatfighter.com/nintendotetri...

Music Used:
HOME - Before The Night
Foewi - Negative Gravity
Orbital Hikers - Vertex
Stevia Sphere - Polar Bears
bignic - chairs
Foewi - Test

Also special thanks to:
Kirjava for their help in research for why the bugged colors happen in the first place
Xeno for creating their lovely 3d blocks render program that is used in the thumbnail
Allenbot for the amazing 3d block capture of the level "Neon Night"

Some background:
Tetris for the NES is one of the most played versions of Tetris at a competitive level, stemming back to the 1990 Nintendo World Championships. From there, the game had a small scene for about two decades, until the first account of a maxout score by Harry Hong emerged in 2009. From there, the Classic Tetris World Championships began in 2010. It was initially dominated by only das players, but Koryan and eventually two time world champ Joseph Saelee brought the playstyle of hypertapping to the forefront of the game, causing a new emergence of young tapping players who would go on to break the game. In 2020, Cheez created his own style called rolling, where multiple fingers are used in succession to move pieces. Now, players such as Fractal161 are using that to completely obliterate previous records, producing incredible landmark achievements along the way.
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