Pretty unbelievable that two randoms with no proof were able to pull this feat off without even knowing about the methods to do it with. Just goes to show you there’s nothing new under the sun.

I once beat the game so hard a message popped up on the screen saying "Step away from the screen. Go outside. Get some fresh air. Beating TETRIS is not a life goal." Had a picture of a miserable old woman.

without the last 15-20 seconds of this video, I think a lot of people wouldn’t have gotten the joke

Those two people who "beat the game" probably got so enraged by it that they hit the console so hard, it crashed

Just want to clarify what triggers the kill screen and why the AI got to such a higher level. The kill screen trigger is actually dependent on the number of lines cleared at very precise scores. The 13 yr old kid actually missed the first kill screen because he cleared three lines at that score when it should have been only one line. He triggered the kill screen at the next scoring opportunity though. The AI was able to reach level 255 because it was programmed to go for “tetrises” (clearing the maximum of 4 lines at once) whenever possible. Since the AI was continually playing the game perfectly, it bypassed all the kill screen triggers of one or two lines, and it was able to play all the way up to the maximum level (255 or “FF” in hexadecimal). Also, I got the kill screen in 1986 and recorded it, but I lost the VHS tape.

I used to get the Tetris Killscreen by "rolling" the NES itself

I think I remember beating the NES version of Tetris on a VCR while watching a toaster.

“They had us in the first half not gonna lie” 💀💀💀

I've seen so many casuals talk shit about how they did this before - I want all of them to pull up to any Tetris event to show their "skills". We live in an age now where you either pull up or shut up.

"I mashed the console with a sledgehammer because I couldn't make past level 4, that's just as impressive as tearing the game apart at level 157 of 29 levels expected a human could possibly do! " - rando, probably

I beat the tetris by throwing controller at the TV whole TV got freezed

Just to clarify, hypertapping was a technique from the 1980s. Thor Aackerlund was the first high level player to use it.

All jokes aside I am sure somebody actually did beat it before him, but just did not care/thought it was a glitch or something along those lines. And that person was me. I beat it back in the 90’s I have a picture around here somewhere

Ah, the good old days. I remember playing Tetris with my old friends back in '83, and we all beat it once by doing a technique called "reach around". Not many people knew about it, but it was about one of us reaching around the controller and tapping it, similar to what kids these days call "rolling", while the player focuses on mashing as fast as posible. My friends and I always had fun doing the "reach around" to eachother, sometimes we even managed to do "reach arounds" between all four of us. Truly one of the times of all time

I beat Tetris i.e. achieved the kill screen by yanking the cartridge right out of the NES mid game.

I beat it 37 1/2 times today. What are we talking about, again?

I BEAT TETRIS ON MY ATARI 2600 BACK IN THE 80s BUT I LOST MY 8mm CAMERA

I just started playing in 1997. I got it second day while watching my mother being born

That’s nothing. I beat it like 6 times in the 70s.

Whaaat, I achieved this feat while i was still in the womb 😂 I admittedly was kind of annoyed with most of the video until i came to the end. Ya got me!!

I beat it twice while this video was playing, but in the past so that I did it first

twice!?? i beat it thrice while sitting on my couch and watching skibidi toilet lore back in 1984

I have a VHS tape in my garage that shows me getting to the killscreen in 1989. I just haven't shown it to anybody yet.

*Oh I beat the game as well, going all the way to level 255! Then, I woke up.* *So it's recorded somewhere in my brain.*

Definitely not the first. I crashed tetris in february of 1991. After a top out at level 7 I smashed the controller into my NES and the game froze. I'm currently in the process of restoring the videotape.

I think they were talking about Billy Mitchell. xDDDD

The fact that they said they commited the feat, 2 things, the integer count was at max, and he only did a single row, which means he beat tetris, by my understanding since his score was over the integer limit present in the game, the game had no idea what to do with it and crashes

Tetris has teached humanity that competition is the law of the jungle, but cooperation is the law of civilization. You simply cannot "beat" Tetris. You have to cooperate with the game code to prevent any freezes, make it to level 255 (all red is so fitting) and then let the game reset to Level 0. This should be the ultimate goal. Whoever achieves this should be remembered forever. 😂

"Everthing you see and read is true" lmao. I was very annoyed at this video until the very end. 🤣🤣🤣

My gran beat it several times, always thought it was weird because I asked her about it and she didn't seem to know what that "new fangled Tetris" was but who am I to dispute her claims?

Guys he's being sarcastic, know that before commenting

This is fantastic. I'm going to show this to Willis, I'm sure he will laugh haha

Bit and Bytes are related. There are 8 bits in 1 byte. knowing that is pretty important, at least back before fiber optic internet was so wide spread, are you paying for 21 mb/s bandwidth or are you being for 21 MB/s bandwidth? Megabits are abbreviated at, "mb," and megabytes are abbreviated as, "MB," so 21 MB/s is a heck of a lot faster than 21 mb/s. Also when buying a hard drive or SSD, you have to be careful about the language used by the manufacturer. Some manufacturers try to make their device sound bigger than it is by rounding up, so the package might say that you have a 4 TB hard drive, but you get it installed only to find out that it's actually 4 trillion bytes which is not 4 TBs. Bits and bytes are counted in squares of 2, so a 4 TB drive would actually have 4,096,000,000,000 bytes if the manufacturer is actually counting the bytes the way they should. Anyways, good video, I just wanted to educate you a little bit... On bit and bytes.

This was masterful. I hope more people see this.

well played sir, well played

1:17 Heh heh heh... whatchu doing there, buddy?

How you'll truly beat the game is by getting to such a high level that there's no way around the crash

This was pretty confusing to watch because neither your voice nor facial expressions made it clear you were joking. I think this broke my brain a bit lol.

I beat it in 1776 in my Nintendo switch

I had to come to the comment section to realize this was sarcasm.

Hyppertaping already existed in 1980, used for the first time professionally by Thor Aackerlung, and later used by many players of Dragon Ball Budokkai Tenkaichi and Naruto Ultimate Ninja, in disputes over pressing the buttons, outside of Type games. The technique was rediscovered but it has always existed. The world didn't begin when KZfaq was created (even though it's difficult to prove) and there are also other ways to stop the game before Lv 40, as some TAS videos show, So you can understand people's confusion and there are also those who played with turbo joysticks, and don't understand the rules of the competition. As you create content, you should know that this is a niche, few people know all the rules, so you can't judge meinstream based on what you know inside your bubble. Furthermore, he was not the first to do this at such a high level, the Fractial player was the first and there is a video of him doing it on KZfaq! The world is not limited to what you know!

104 people didn't want to wait three minutes for a 20 second punchline. Neither did I, I just read comments.

Dude, those guys aren't even the first. I was a playtester for the original NES Tetris and I beat it in 1988 when I was only 6 years old. I never said anything until now because I was under an NDA to not say anything but the NDA just happened to expire yesterday.

Anybody can claim to have beaten the game, that is not proof. Example: *I beat NES Tetris the day it was released. Therefore, I was first.* Can't prove me wrong, so it must be legit.

Honestly with hypertapping its theoretically possible to crash the game as we have seen players reach very high score with it. Its probably more difficult than rolling but doesnt matter. We will never know of course but it wouldnt suprise me if a few of the hundreds of millions of people that played this game in the past few decades got themselves a technique to crash the game. Imagine if cheez was born in 1980, he would have "created" the rolling for himself and for his brother there was no twitch or youtube to celebrate it. And also back in the days i remember people being very secretive about their discoveries. I would never tell how to do a special combo in Mortal Kombat to any of my friends for exemple.

Let’s not make Will be devastated for his entire life please

That nose hair though. Hilarious video though, love it!

I beat it by throwing my controller to the tv and boom there you have it the killscreen

u know what, my grandfather beat tetris in 1990 by accident

I beat the game so bad the entire system overheated burned the house down back in 1971 !

beat it in the late 70s. had a crowd of 300 watching me do it but they've all passed away since. haven't touched the game since because i never thought it would be news worthy, now i'm just a sad 15 year old who is disappointed his feat was never publicly recognized. also what's a blue scooter

Sorce: Trust me bro!

Saw some people in the comments complaining/discussing the video so I'll leave yall with a timestamp: 3:10

I knew he couldn't of been the first out of all of the people on earth.

Bits and Bytes are not the same... Luxor

the guy is lying without the proof

Ive beaten it everyday since 1994 too..... Hold on, what are we talking about here?

In fact, it was just obvious that one should say just that "he is the first to be recorded while 'beating' the game", but we can't be sure nobody did it before - before the era of live streaming and social media and all this c..p. A bugless implementation without any explicit rule which states what the meaning of "winning" is (that is, what conditions make you the winner), would be unbeatable and could be played forever (if you forever succeed in having room for new pieces)

If they ever "beat tetris" back then it prolly was one of those $5 standalone handhelds you could buy anywhere instead of the actual NES version. "I said I beat the game. Doesn't matter what platform"

I beat in my sleep once, too made i couldn't record it.

Not everything you see is true 3:33

at least 56 people missed the joke. it's a joke about people making up claims that are impossible to verify to discredit some 13 year old kid who did his achievement on camera

I dont by that article one bit since there needs to be a level for that person to get a kill screen on Tetris in order to BE the first plus that level need to be higher that the recent kills screen player did for this the BE the first.

bro, i made it to level 420 and all of a sudden the game turned into pac man. then i beat it pac man..... twice in one go.

Don't. Ruin. His. Moment.

If the rolling technic was invented in 2020 to pass level 29 and since the kill screen is happening long after level 29, which was never able to be passed or designed without figuring out that technic. It would be imossible to have reached that kill screen in 1991 or 1994, so it's bs..

Yeah I beat it back in 97 when I was 18, no lie. I used the hammer technique (Rubber handle with steel hammer) on the NES when I kept losing and the screen just froze. So unfortunately the kid is not the first 😕

Sounds like Billy Mitchell asked you to make this.

Umm, this video is absolutely useless. This guy is believing someone else's statements of achievement without any proof, and '91 and '94 was before the hypertapping was even known. And then he concludes "it's tough breaks for the kid." How about we say it's tough breaks for the video poster for being an idiot?

Can anyone now that the game has crashed twice at levels 155 and 157 will it be possible for anyone to beat the entire game by going all the way up to level 256 before the rebirth screen of Tetris?

I beat it in 1976.

Yeah, i beat that game on day one. First attemp.

I beat Tetris multiple times a day, I actually beat it once again while writing this comment

If you're not going to at least briefly explain hyper-tapping, why even make this video?

Let the kid have his day.

I don't trust any of these lads on emulators I want to see it done on a nintendo

I could have sworn the same thing.I already seen this

any chance those 2 commenters were billie mitchell and todd rodgers? lmao

Sooo we're gonna dismiss the kid who recorded his achievement, just because of what some random people claimed in their comments? Well then, I solved the Riemann Hypothesis. I don't have it on tape, but… you know the drill :q

Thanks for the good laugh 🤣

I beat tetris 1 time in 2020 by smashing the screen with a sledge hammer :D

I beat it on day of release and my hammer was unscathed🤣🤣🤣

I'm from Mr. Wilson is Live!

If they have no evidence, I did not trust them, anyone can claim the same, technically freezing the game does counts as beating it, i mean, The end was surpassed and there is noting else to do.

Of course 2 people did this before, obviously Billy Mitchel and Todd Rodgers XD

How? he probably didnt have hypertapping or rolling

Yeah I beat it twice too in 1988

ok

Cool they _-beat-_ it

I beat it every day of my life. It's just when you record it, It's cursed.

This is Hillarious only people thst can beat it think will be esport players

please tell me this video is a joke

It’s possible someone could have beaten it 30 years ago. We’ll never know. I seriously doubt it. If someone were actually that good back then, I’d think he’d would somehow become known anyway. Or at least his technique for making it that far would be known.

Hah I like your sarcasm, but of course I beat it on gameboy. Got to level 43 with music B, felt like a bad choice but it works, music B all the way. wait or was it C..

i spent 4 minutes on that bullshit

I beat the game as well, I beat it with my truck. Do not actually own a truck. 🚛 🚒 😆

I've seen this done on video before. How's he 1st?

all lies, i was the first.

good video

lulz nice one OP