NES Tetris - 999,999

Jonas recorded this one. He's the only person I know who can do this - except for maybe Thor. Thor, where is your video? FYI - Jonas has left comments under the name 'JonasTeh81'

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• nes
• tetris
• high
• score
• jonas

[Eastflava0]

how do u start at level 18?

[t2048]

Hold A as you press start on any level to reach that level plus 10.

[bitcheznhos]

my score went so high at this my nintendo turned into a ps2

[bigd1234zx]

Your true score was 1,016,960.

[JonasTeh81]

I believe what you are referring to is the quick tap maneuver. Its a timing trick and difficult to pull off consistently, at least for me. When you are trying to get a piece over to the side that won't quite make it you can tap the D-pad (assuming you were holding it down initially) at the very last moment to successfully place it.

Give it some practice by starting on 19, building a 7 piece wall while leaving a space to the left open for a line.

[axedry1991]

YEAH, you are right!!!!!!

men, it's HARD

[JonasTeh81]

A 6 high stack should be the highest possible to simply hold the directional and slide over. A 7 piece stack requires an extra little double tap to get over. It takes some practice to get the double tap going but once you have it in the arsenal you're good to go.

[CrannBethadh]

Jonas I wonder if you could comment - between 7:51 and 7:53, you pull an I block over to the left above a 6 high stack in column 2, and this is something I'm certain I've never succeeded in doing. I noticed that before the block successfully hits the left wall, it is directly on top of the 6th block in the 2nd column in the fraction of a second before. Is there a special tap involved, or are you just holding left the entire time. Could be I didn't rotate quickly enough, or too soon?

[CrannBethadh]

They programmed the game to require fewer lines to get to the next level if you start at 10+, presumably so that it would be harder to max the score out. So far only 2 people have apparently done it.

[bogercs]

Get Bent! No one can possibly make it that far on Tetris. It's Impossible.

[robthedrummer]

wow, really?

[JonasTeh81]

If the game allowed me to play to level 18 up to 190 lines, I could score easier and max out to 999,999 almost everytime.

The fact that they handicapped it like this shows remarkable foresight on the developer's behalf.

[KomaruMedare]

Hehe, Thor.

He won the Nintendo World Championship, right?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he did.

[metapod]

How do you get it to start on lv 18?