How NES Tetris's Hardest Mode Was Conquered After 29 Years

me: takes a whole year to beat 19-4
someone:29-4

Any video featuring Jonas, is a great video. Glad to see Salee too. Very nice video, I'm not sure if I want to tackle this stuff

Nice, now do 29-5 lol

All them hours and days I "waisted" playing Tetris as a wee lad on the og gameboy...come to find out years later I coulda made something outta it. 😂

This is such a lie. Dude I beat 9-5 at age 12 in my parents bassenent. .. ( where u getting 19 from dummy there is no 19) .

TETRIS FOR JONAS RIP MAN

about 20 minutes

Here a joke/pun from my stupid moronic brain.
DAS charging? What you gonna use? A DASh Charger? Go ahead, boo me lmao.

"And then, the rollers came"

He sounds like Hank Green

Rolling could do it

In the age of rolling, this video seems almost quaint.

I bet billy mitchel can do it 🤣

So let me get this straight; Nintendo made a celebration that includes Mario, Luigi, and Peach that nearly no one would ever seen without hacking the game? Those bastards.

Why are 16 and 17 skipped?

First thing I looked for was a link to Marks 19-5😂

Was 'Rolling' a thing two years ago?

1:27PM 1/8

Just found your ... other video.

in the mean time rolling is the new normal. crushing hyper tapping atm

239 was the highest last I knew....or was it 293.....it's all a blur to me. I videotaped 2019 twc for the local news and the third place finalist wouldn't sign our release but about a month ago we got an email asking if we could release the footage to him. Ya hold on I got that tape right here....our servers don't go back a year for the soul reason of Year in Review lol....let alone nearly 4. We aren't the library of congress the secretary told him

what about 29-5

My grandfather beat tetris like 100 times on his 1998 Gameboy color. I've played it with him so many times. Since i was born, hes sat at the table after work and played that game on his Gameboy color. He is so good at it nobody will believe me, but the blocks loose color after a certain point in the GB version, and start falling fast af, and he does that part with ease. Ive seen him get hidden cutscenes that i didnt know existed in Tetris GB. gaming god, and doesn't know it.

aGameScout: if i had a nickel for every time a top nes tetris player beat 19-5 in 20 minutes, i would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice

I tried wiping your door knob off on my phone SO many time

Considering things impossible is so primitive nowadays. I know of and seen a lot of seemingly impossible challenges and challengers, none of those took as long as 19-5 and the glitched colors especially! 1cc Grobda and True No damage ninja gaiden run are the strongest contenders I could find.

the sacred 20 minutes

Pretty crazy hearing a 14 yr old who appears more intelligent than most adults

Where‘s Jake now

What a remarkably well-spoken child

Idk how I got here, I barely play any tetris but your channel and this scene so interesting that I'm gonna stick around. Cheers mate.

And now people have found the true kill screen

As a Luxembourger, seing it being referred to as a german country just hits different

I know some people who can even click fifteen times per second, it is gd wave spammers

Wait what about Level 20-29 and beyond the killscreen point starting from level 29. Is there being existed.

And now we have rolling...

Who the FFFFFRICK is Icarus

His name is PIT

Rolling changed tetris forever. It really is wild to see before and after rolling content.

148-5
no words

I had to use a keyboard with almost no das on it and when i typed it went like 'hhhiiii"

That is not a 30-second explainer

10CPS**

Why did JONAS SWEAR

Can't wait for 29-5

My PBs are similar. They are 18-3 and 19-2

Me: YEAH I BEAT 9-5 😀🥳
Tetris: There’s a 19-5
Me: 🫠

CTM June Recap coming up next! In the meantime, here is finally what was meant to be the first of my "weekly" videos after CTWC 2019. Somehow originally this video was supposed to be made in a week, and it turned into a several month long rabbit hole of research, interviews, and a continually expanding script. Big thanks to everyone who contributed. Check out all the links and the google doc in the description for further watching - in particular, I highly recommend Josh Tolles' series.