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Tetris (lemmy.world)
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[–] 40 points 2 years ago* (15 children)

It does have an ending tho. And until recently, when a 13 year old kid managed to do it, the end of the game was only achieved by machines/AI. Tho, to be fair, the ending is basically just going so far that the game stops working.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    you do realise that are hundreds of Tetris games where you can play endlessly?!?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

    Virtually endlessly. What they're talking about is, AFAIK, the actual original (not actually original, but NES) Tetris. It was meant to be infinite, but at some point the numbers get too big to store, and the programming starts breaking down. Some games might be able to keep going indefinitely, just resetting/looping some numbers, and in modern games it might take years, centuries, or even universal lifetimes to reach that point, but almost all "infinite" games will break down at some point.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    they're talking about the nintendo entertainment version of tetris, which is the most popular competitive version of tetris.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    i wouldn't call it the most popular.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    it's the one that they play at the largest tournaments, and the tetris game with the most sought after world records, so i'm using that as my indicator. what would you say is the most popular version for competative play?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    original Tetris was made on Electronika 60, very few people played that version.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    That's cool, I didn't realize that - according to Wikipedia, it was "adapted to the IBM PC" and spread throughout Moscow and then to eastern Europe, so I wonder how many people actually played that. I guess the NES version was the first commercial one

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