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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.
Isn't it a lot more like a capitalist treadmill? Work hard to make number go up! It is in fact beatable in the sense that the number can't actually go up forever, eventually the system crashes.
This description of capitalism perfectly reflects soviet communism as well, tho
Truly, reaching singularity is the end goal
Tetris as a commentary on transhumanism.
Seems even more appropriate for a game from the Soviet Union.
you do realise that are hundreds of Tetris games where you can play endlessly?!?
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.
original Tetris was made on Electronika 60, very few people played that version.
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
they're talking about the nintendo entertainment version of tetris, which is the most popular competitive version of tetris.
i wouldn't call it the most popular.
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?
Nes Tetris is practically unplayable for today's gamers. While it draws massive nostalgia-driven tournaments targeting the US audience, games like TGM, TETR.IO, and PPT are far more popular globally.
yes, that's why i specified competitive tetris.
When watching any big competition, it's the one they use. While arcade variants like Grand Master have their own cult following, they are clearly in the minority.