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I thought I was a pretty good tetris player back in the day for having hit lv 20 once or twice on the NES version. For reference, this is the speed we're talking about (and this guy is quite a bit better than me).
But that's nothing. This is from AGDQ, an event where they do live speedruns of games and raise money for charity. It's a long video, but it explains just how this ridiculously insane version of Tetris came to be, and just how hard it is.
tl;dw There was an arcade version of tetris that was popular in Japan, sort of like how the "standard" version for a lot of us was the NES or game boy version, they had one with a different set of rules. Blocks dropped faster, but they wouldn't lock in place the instance they collided.
The delay was long enough that people could still master it with instant gravity (the block spawning on the stack with no drop animation whatsoever). Tetris Grand master was the answer to that. Maybe 10000 people in the world have beaten it. That was "too easy", so TGM2 came along. ~100 people have beaten it. Still too easy. So they came out with TGM3. As of the video, there were only 5 people who had beaten it, all Japanese. Since then, Kevin, the guy who was oh so close finally beat it, becoming the first American and 6th person in the world to do so.
They did another one last night. Same game modes, but they got further, and they had people control both players in the doubles mode. I can't find the video, because I saw it streamed on twitch, but I'm sure it'll show up on youtube eventually. But they get the world record holder from Japan, and he's like even on another level from them.
The hardest mode is called Shirase. Both of the people who attempted it (including the WR holder) died on it. It's that hard. At its highest speed, you have to place about 4 blocks per second. Not even the world's best player can beat it 100% of the time. So I wanted to see how it ended if you actually completed it.
If you noped out of the other video because of its length, just watch this. It's quite possibly the hardest gaming accomplishment ever. I'd say even more so than the crazy bullet hell games they have. By a long shot.
But that's nothing. This is from AGDQ, an event where they do live speedruns of games and raise money for charity. It's a long video, but it explains just how this ridiculously insane version of Tetris came to be, and just how hard it is.
tl;dw There was an arcade version of tetris that was popular in Japan, sort of like how the "standard" version for a lot of us was the NES or game boy version, they had one with a different set of rules. Blocks dropped faster, but they wouldn't lock in place the instance they collided.
The delay was long enough that people could still master it with instant gravity (the block spawning on the stack with no drop animation whatsoever). Tetris Grand master was the answer to that. Maybe 10000 people in the world have beaten it. That was "too easy", so TGM2 came along. ~100 people have beaten it. Still too easy. So they came out with TGM3. As of the video, there were only 5 people who had beaten it, all Japanese. Since then, Kevin, the guy who was oh so close finally beat it, becoming the first American and 6th person in the world to do so.
They did another one last night. Same game modes, but they got further, and they had people control both players in the doubles mode. I can't find the video, because I saw it streamed on twitch, but I'm sure it'll show up on youtube eventually. But they get the world record holder from Japan, and he's like even on another level from them.
The hardest mode is called Shirase. Both of the people who attempted it (including the WR holder) died on it. It's that hard. At its highest speed, you have to place about 4 blocks per second. Not even the world's best player can beat it 100% of the time. So I wanted to see how it ended if you actually completed it.
If you noped out of the other video because of its length, just watch this. It's quite possibly the hardest gaming accomplishment ever. I'd say even more so than the crazy bullet hell games they have. By a long shot.
