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Teen becomes first Tetris player to loop back around to beginning, achieving record score | Level 235 actually lasts for just over 800 lines
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...
Just nine months after a 13-year-old became the first person to "beat" the game, Tetris champions are discovering more ways to reach its theoretical endpoints and hit once-unimaginable milestones. From the NES version's release in 1988 until 2011, it was believed that clearing level 29 was impossible because the controller's directional pad couldn't move the blocks fast enough. Still, some will continue to explore whether a human player can dodge the many potential crash points and achieve "rebirth," as the post-255 loop is called, on an unmodified version of the game.
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