The video below "Tribal People Play Donkey Kong For The First Time" shows village people from Pakistan trying the game. Towards the end, Billy Mitchell is discussed even though he's not mentioned by name.
The video below "Tribal People Play Donkey Kong For The First Time" shows village people from Pakistan trying the game. Towards the end, Billy Mitchell is discussed even though he's not mentioned by name.
In an unrelated video game story, the NES Tetris "kill screen" has been reached for the first time.
Back in the day, it was believed level 29 was a kill screen. The pieces would fall too fast for players to move and the game would end.
But, a player (Thor Aackerlund) developed something called "hypertapping" which allowed him to clear the screen. Other players used the technique to push play about ten levels higher over the next decade.
Then, in 2020 a player named "Cheez" invented "rolling" which allowed for more efficient play. All top Tetris players switched to this technique and players would soon exceed level 100.
Then, at level 138, a glitch in programming caused problems with the color of the pieces, creating a new obstacle.
Finally, under different circumstances, the game itself can crash just like an old school arcade Donkey Kong game.
"Blue Scuti" recently reached this kill screen in competition with another player trying to reach it.
That was awesome. I had no idea NES Tetris was still such a huge thing.
I had to quit playing Tetris way back in the day because I couldn't stop seeing blocks in my dreams and anytime I closed my eyes. I can't imagine what these kids go through.
I saw that on the YouTube or something and wasn't sure if it was legit or not. Man, that's ****ing awesome. What a great accomplishment and memory for that little dude.
Wouldn't it be hilarious of Big Bad Bill Mitchell uploaded an obviously fraudulent MAME version of him setting this record already with poorly spliced together footage from different games. He always has a plan.
He sells his hot sauce, he sells himself.
I knew about the rolling technique getting popular. Are there any other late developments on technique that changed gameplay like this?
Thought this bump would have been about Billy's ongoing comedy legal issues rather than about Tetris lol
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
That was awesome. I had no idea NES Tetris was still such a huge thing.
Combination of Joseph winning the CTWC + boom tetris for jeff meme causing lots of younger, newer players to get involved and tap (pretty much the only tapper prior to him was Koryan, who's older than I am), pandemic giving lots of people lots of time to practice and then Cheez breaking the game with rolling caused things to explode. It's probably already peaked and most of the competitive scene's modded the game to either stop it after level 39 or to double the speed again, so it's actually fairly rare to see someone like BS actually go for score/level records
If Karl Jobst is to be believed (and I think he probably is), Billy Mitchell and/or his attorney may end up eating sanctions for what they've been pulling in depositions and in filings.
So it turns out one of Twin Galaxies' lawyers caused some issues, so TG settled with Mitchell.
TG created a separate historical archive of scores, and threw Mitchell on that. Mitchell naturally is claiming he won, and got back on the leaderboards, which he didn't.
But the Mitchell/Jobst lawsuit is still ongoing, apparently.
