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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It looks like Switch Online just became a Guinness World Records battleground. Nintendo has added a new title for Switch Online, that may seem mundane, but is actually monumental, particularly because ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 13-year-old streamer, Blue Scuti, became the first ever human to beat the classic game of Tetris on NES. Blue Scuti broke 3 world records in total — including that monumental accomplishment — during ...