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Tetris (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (9 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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