[STEAM] Teen achieves first NES Tetris “rebirth,“ proves endless play is possible

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Months ago, 13-year-old Willis "Blue Scuti" Gibson

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, crashing the game after a 1,511-line, 57-level performance. Over the weekend, 16-year-year old Michael "dopgplayingtetris" Artiaga became the first to reach an even more impressive plateau in the game,

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and instantly rolling the game all the way back to the ultra-slow Level 0.

It took Artiaga a bit over 80 minutes and a full 3,300 cleared lines to finally achieve the game's first near-mythical "rebirth"

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. And after a bit of celebration and recovery on the low levels, Artiaga managed to keep his rolled-over game going for another 40 minutes, finally topping out after a total of 4,216 lines and a record 29.4 million points.

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Artiaga's record-setting game starts a few minutes in, while the "rebirth" rollover happens at 1:21:24 Artiaga's record does come with a small asterisk since he used a version of the game that was modified to avoid the crashes that stopped Blue Scuti's historic run. Still, NES Tetris' first-ever level rollover is a monumental achievement and a testament to just how far competitive classic Tetris has come in a short time.

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