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 always been ...

The NES Tetris scene has been booming over the years thanks to the likes of competitions like the Classic Tetris World Championships. As more players discover NES Tetris along with new tricks and ...

Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people havereached its various endings, usually byclearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital ...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tetris this year, Nintendo has added Tetris (NES) and Tetris DX (Game Boy Color) to the Switch Online service this week. As part of this, Tetris creator Alexey ...

A 16-year-old Tetris player achieved the first-ever "rebirth" by clearing level 255 on a special NES rom version. The gamer set multiple records by reaching level 255 and then looping back to level 0 ...

Gamers have been stacking Tetris blocks since the ’80s, but only now has one teenager become the first known player to ever beat the retro game and achieve a reset to Level 0. American teen Michael ...

For decades after its 1989 release, each of the hundreds of millions of standard NES Tetris games ended the same way: A block reaches the top of the screen and triggers a “game over” message. That ...

In the fall of 2018, tucked away in a side hall at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, seven-time Classic Tetris World Champion (CTWC), Jonas Neubauer, found himself against the ropes. 37-year-old ...