First Ever 8 Million in NES Tetris (World Record)

[@golden_rod]

in case people are wondering why it's 8.9m instead of 9m, at 34:59 the game miscalculates the score of the single clear and displays 100k more than it should

[@Squizz11222]

That's interesting. I thought the game wouldn't misscalculate on this rom version with the rollover scores like it's supposed to be crash free

[@biggiemac42]

I think Adrien wu ended up finding where the bug was in gym code. The true score still exists but the way it's converted to BCD to display it is scuffed. When true score increases to 8M it always makes a 100k error. There are a few other places. It is getting fixed now, Andy being the first person to score enough to notice

[@speedymatt1236]

I guess that makes sense.

[@tylerlevibald420]

Someone in the live chat literally noticed and said “100k tetris?”

[@TheMe26]

Interesting

[@FrayRS]

What I appreciated both live and watching again now is that you're actually very entertaining as a personality whilst playing... Reading chat during 29 is just wild. 2019 community could never even fathom it haha.

[@FrayRS]

@@kacperzimowski4626 I was watching his game he did after this one where he was, which must be where I remembered it from!

[@xavierorangearms635]

"Reading chat during 29 is just wild. 2019 community could never even fathom it" bro DID NOT watch Joseph stream

[@FrayRS]

@@xavierorangearms635 can you actually believe we've gone from Joseph eeking out 20 lines after 29 to this though? Unbelievable stuff... Can't wait to see what's next.

[@xavierorangearms635]

@@FrayRS lol. sorry, i misread your comment. but, yeah, it is unbelievable how far we've come.

[@TobeGH3]

I remember when - even though rolling was already well established - reaching colours was basically just a concept. Theoretically possible, but far out of reach. And here we are, 3 people have crashed the game, and are stacking for tetrisses ON COLOURS, while also casually talking meanwhile. Absolutely unreal times we live in, huge congratulations to this insane score Andy!

[@zedoscupuacu6921]

and if you consider how we were 8 years ago, and how we evolved soo fast this past few years

[@randommetalhead7]

yo tobias i didn't expect to see you here. hope you doing well brother, and happy new year man!

[@FidoHusky]

they're the most powerful tetris players in the world only they could do it

[@Squizz11222]

Congrats on the WR :) I also need to mention that you hold the highest score tetris on D78 line! 35:45

[@jakebrowning2373]

What's special about that line?

[@Squizz11222]

@@jakebrowning2373 nothing more than being the highest ever to score a Tetris on it. This might be also the first Tetris on glitched colours. I have noted tetrises of other players on line 130x. This one is 1378. It's noteworthy to be recorded.

[@YellowBlue3x3]

@@Squizz11222first tetris on colors was on the first game to reach colors by EricICX who got a tetris in the D5x range.

[@jtpilfered7391]

Watching this live was so stressful. I have no idea how you kept your composure and was still able to make commentary throughout the game. Crazy.

[@ehhhhhhhhhhk]

POKEMON GOAT WATCHES TETRIS? DUDE I LOVE YOUR EK STRATEGY VIDS

[@thetrollmaster4485]

game start: 0:11 transition: 5:16 maxout: 7:37 killscreen: 8:25 rollover: 13:54 500 lines: 14:55 2 mil: 17:21 3 mil: 21:22 2nd rollover: 22:09 4 mil: 24:53 level 100: 25:30 1000 lines: 26:52 3rd rollover: 27:17 5 mil: 27:54 6 mil: 30:57 4th rollover: 31:54 7 mil: 33:21 colors: 34:34 8 mil + 5th rollover: 34:58 dusk: 36:21 charcoal: 36:54 topout: 37:05

[@sunte91]

Nice 👍🏻

[@omerkenan6148]

What is a rollover

[@GDOsmium]

​@@omerkenan6148When the highest digit in the score value rolls over from F to 0 (which happens every 1.6 million, since there's a code being applied to make it use hexadecimal values (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F))

[@sunte91]

@@omerkenan6148 when a game genie code is used to uncap the score the score gets counted as a letter instead of the 6th digit: A➡️10, B➡️11 etc. Meaning A02000=1 002 000. Only the letters A, B, C, D, E, and F is used so when the score goes to 1,6 million the score “rolls over” and restarts at 0.

[@johannesschroder943]

@@omerkenan6148 the first digit of the scroe count is hexadeicmal meaning it has 16 digits. a rollover is when someone gets enough points (1.6 million) for the score to rollover from the highest digit(F) back to the lowest digit(0). Thus every rollover equals 1.6 million points and to achieve this score of over 8 million andy had to rollover 5 times.

[@tylerlevibald420]

About cried at the end for this kid. Beautiful to see it all pay off and feel that rush of mastering something and surprising even yourself. Amazing WR 🎉

[@jhmcwhirter]

"Be who you are. In the now. You know what I'm saying? You are you. You feel?" -P1xelAndy, Tetris Score World Record Holder

[@Algorox]

I had never thought maintaining that high of a Tetris rate was possible at level 29 speeds... You've just pushed the skill ceiling of NES Tetris further. Incredible job.

[@muffyio]

I was there live! What a moment! 10M is gonna be insane!!! SHEEEZZZZ! Congrats again Andy!

[@ghostarray6022]

Dude idk how you do it but I appreciate how much you talk while playing, makes it more interesting for sure. Great job on the WR.

[@Daziryx]

I'm really happy to have seen this live, it might have been at 2 am but it was completely worth it and also a great b-day present :D -ParrotStargrinder on the chat

[@skorpsaiyan2361]

Congrats!! Man you have proven to be a true competitor for Fractal and Scuti. Hope your record stays for a while!

[@johnrobertmorris]

Congrats on the WR and 8.9 mil!!!

[@danielbeattie9509]

The magic of this record-breaking Tetris run lies in the narrative arc it crafts, almost cinematic in its unfolding. From the outset, we witness a humble beginning, marked by a symphony of RNG woes and early slip-ups-a relatable human moment that tugs at the viewer's empathy. But then, a pivotal shift occurs. Our Tetris protagonist decides to transcend blame and hones his focus, transforming his gameplay into a spectacle of precision and strategy. As the blocks fall with increasing velocity, his approach evolves from cautious to daring. Each Tetris cleared sends a jolt of confidence through him, a thrilling ascent we're privy to through his live commentary, sharing not just a visual but an emotional journey. His mental state shifts into a realm beyond the ordinary, a blend of flow and what can only be described as 'ultra instinct,' where every decision, every move, is both instinctual and impeccably calculated. Even after shattering the world record, he plays on, embodying the essence of a true champion who competes not against others, but against the limits of what's possible. It's only upon topping out that he pauses, the magnitude of his achievement dawning on him. In that moment of realization, the Tetris god returns to mortal form, and we're left in awe, not just of the skill displayed, but of the profound journey we've been invited to share. This wasn't just a game. It was a testament to human potential, a story of triumph, self-belief, and the transformative power of focus and determination.

[@Dadtheimpaler]

Your writing is jaw-dropping. Please tell me you're a professional. I've never watched a Tetris video before, but I was intrigued to know what a world record performance looked like. Then I was scrolling the comments and was so moved by your ability to paint a gripping picture of the video that I had to pay my respects.

[@24cap]

Honestly watching your streams for a youtuber with only 5k subs I wasn't expecting much cause I had never heard your name before, but I got to admit I was blown away with what you have achieved in the past 3 or so weeks. Your skills are mindblowing.

[@ColossalFailure]

Your composure when reaching these new heights is insane. GGs on the run man, you deserve it!

[@GalileoSunshine]

insane. one of the best tetris games ever, even if people get higher scores eventually it was so entertaining to watch you take all those risky tetrises. congrats andy!

[@hrrld]

ggwp! So locked in! You love to see it. The 's' burst on level 147 made me frown. Amazing game.

[@Adrena1in]

Such a crazy score, and you didn't even reach game crash! I was thinking recently that 10 million might happen this year, but it's probably going to happen in the next month or two.

[@Lygre]

The level of play here is insane! I can't believe how quick you are with your reaction and thinking. So many tetrises! =D Congrats on the record! I am glad I stumbled upon Tetris videos a while back. It's crazy to see all the records being broken and smothered these days, and the game came out a million years ago. =P

[@SSatyricus]

Good job boy!! This is what very few people can even dream of achieving. You won the moment you chose to focus and leave all fears behind. Stay on point! /Salute

[@Mmm_Chezburgerz]

The rolling sound is the most satisfying sound in all of human history.

[@SylvainBerube]

It was a blast to watch the stream live, congrats on the new WR! The race toward the first 10M is real!

[@bltvd]

One of the greatest Tetris livestreams ever! ❤

[@EternalDensity]

Wooo I was watching this live, well done!!

[@Shuey187]

You're PixelAndy, and you sir are a legend! :)

[@ZeroToleranceFS]

Congratz, my boi! The grind is paying off!

[@jrmaddu1]

Best game of Tetris played ever

[@SodiumOverdose]

Fr

[@jrmaddu1]

@@SodiumOverdose the amount of balls it takes to Tetris at the levels he was doing it on, insane

[@Watermeloncat412]

​@@jrmaddu1how did you get the S piece block?

[@jrmaddu1]

@@Watermeloncat412 i think someone gifted me a membership during one of the live streams

[@Huntr405]

Here after Alex's 16mil

[@BondedgeXD]

Letsgooo Andy! Keep breaking records!

[@voongnz]

Congrats bro, this is insanity! Well done❤👏

[@galaxygamer4227]

This is INSANE i dont even know how this is possible huge congrats to you :DDD

[@sunte91]

Wow! Clearing the previous WR with over 2 million points… extremely impressive 👏🏻

[@animexpert779]

can't believe that colors are now a normal thing to reach. Brilliant bro keep it up

[@drewbola]

Awesome! And good mannered... Watched with my kids!

[@wanderingslacker]

Has someone created a table for what singles, doubles, triples and Tetris’s are worth at every level? Beyond insane playing Andy.

[@ThespianGamr]

I don't know a link to one, or the formula off the top of my head, but I believe it is a pretty simple formula based on level

[@TheAerostin]

Single is 40, Double is 100, Triple is 300, and Tetris is 1200. Multiplier is (Level + 1)

[@thomasdalton1508]

So, for anyone that doesn't want to do the calculation, a Tetris at level 148 (Charcoal, where he topped out) would be worth 1200*149=178,800 points. That's why the world record tends to jump by such large amounts these days - if you are Tetrising at these high levels the score grows crazily fast (from level 139 onwards, you only need six tetrises to score 1 million, compared to the 42 you need on level 19).

[@ariamentio]

the most insane part is how you got the scoring record, then got to glitched colors, in that order

[@Glitchberry]

I saw you live doing this, great job man! =w=

[@Gags.-DRS-]

That Was UNESPECTED, bro just shattered the wr of 2mil points

[@jmm834]

Congrats! Looks like you've mastered Ultra Instinct as well.

[@898doffo]

Awesome stuff! Keep on rocking.

[@azeezedo-omozuwa1820]

Congratulations Brother! 💪💪💪

[@SuperAnthony3]

My goodness, so much has been happening in the last few months, this is crazy!

[@SirThilliomAnimations]

That's sick! Congrats!

[@J420n]

I've never seen anyone so in the zone after watching thousands of videos. Amazing.

[@randys2669]

25:45 so freaking aggressive, that play was nuuuuts

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

20:20 You got yourself into it, you have to get yourself out of it... GG.

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

22:07 ... 😂

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

26:27 😆 now he's just showing off ...

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

27:55 😮

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

30:52 😮

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

34:56 😅 WOW 😮

[@vivianriver6450]

Very nice! I love the way you gracefully worked to score as much as possible at the very end. DAE feel the urge to call the second glitch color pallet "CGA"?

[@TheSaltySeaman]

Haha I tuned into this very game last night during the stream and fell asleep to it. I’m sure dream me cheered! Awesome job bro

[@FloydMaxwell]

By far the most impressive game of Tetris I've ever seen.

[@PaulRezaei]

Bro still responds to chat while he's deeper than I can imagine.

[@luising6793]

great effort, grats, deserved

[@dbarra-]

Congratulations Andy 🎉

[@espectador-]

saw live on YT right after I joined in at around level 50, very impressive

[@OWMANez]

Insane O_O Congrats!

[@MrScaryPasta]

Congrats on the new record. 🎉

[@standepain]

Congrats!!! I'm not even shocked anymore. lol

[@Jotinko]

Andy and Dog should officially have the title Super Tetris Bros!

[@josuedvp3884]

33:49 and 35:23 OMG, what a move

[@Algorox]

35:24 That tuck at level 29 speed. HOW?

[@CocoCrawl]

As your biggest fan, good job!

[@wschmrdr]

As I watch these young whippersnappers play, and realize I'm probably one of the handful that was alive when this game came out, and friends in school bragging about making the city go up....

[@Soooooooooooonicable]

charcoal is truly Pixelandy's arch nemesis.

[@RyuoHama]

Seeing shade in your twitch chat disgusts me. You absolutely knocked this out of the park. Stellar job.

[@charajaznao2829]

I need an edit of his speech with "you say run" of boku no hero in the background

[@Rejinx]

I thought it was 9,052.432. What happened to the other 100k?

[@EnglishMike]

Added incorrectly by a bug in the code.

[@lapislazuli4288]

Bro this guy is crazy. We're actually closing in on the 10 million true killscreen we were joking about like a year and a half ago

[@taelor56]

How is score calculated?

[@macoud12]

With this performance, I think we gotta consider modding the game further so it displays the full score in hexadecimal instead of just the first digit.

[@YTDeepshock]

Congrats on the 8.9m.

[@graykev1]

Beyond impressive. I always wonder how the top 3 seem to be able to handle kill screen and make it look effortless but in competition you never see this. Is this just down to pressure?

[@aimeecortez5899]

Good job!!

[@RedshirtTheory]

Atta boy

[@z5tetriskid]

you're awesome andy

[@jarredroger6887]

Bro this is likebthe best thing ever congrats on the world record snapping the recod from scooty was epic

[@mckev7KU]

GG Andy!

[@johneygd]

Definitely just mind blowing.

[@manhl7620]

It shows F to 1 when you reached 8 mil, so actually is 8.9 mil points not 9 mil

[@Zarro0o0o]

Shut up

[@upchessbyabzolute]

@@Zarro0o0o Get off KZbin if all you’re going to do is bring negativity to a positive community.

[@BidoofBoy1234]

Congrats

[@speedymatt1236]

Next stop: 8-digit land!

[@Zeppelinpuppy]

Outstanding!

[@PKMNwww411_MkII]

Who can break the 10 million point barrier? The high score table is meant to hold 6 digits in the vanilla. Tetris Gym's high score table is meant to hold 7 digits, but can display up to 9 digits. These extra digits push the lines counter and the starting level to the right. Tetris Gym's high score table's lines is meant to hold 3 digits, but can display up to 5 digits. These extra digits push the starting level to the right. An AI got it all the way to 100 million and then some. A TAS started at level 0 and ended at level 0 after clearing 3,360 lines. Starting at levels 15 thru 24 requires 3,300 lines to reach the rebirth screen.

[@TroyBoyJoy]

Why is the level counter displaying the actual level number instead of random letters and nunbers

[@Ganobrator]

Actually insane dude

[@vibe6372]

I said in KZbin live “I have a good feeling about this run” and it was good

[@DavidJones-kz6ik]

"Noncharcoalable board" 😆 Amazing game!

[@Rahmations]

8 billion

[@jrmaddu1]

Yen

[@SilicosisNotBeta]

i genunely cant believe this wasthe first run i joined to

[@VeronikaGama]

Good job daddyo!!!!!

[@creativeearthian1702]

Can someone please enlighten me. How is this thw world record if that kid from all over the news was the first to reach the end game?

[@pascald7863]

Blue scutti (the 13 year old kid) reached level 157, which is the furthest someone has gone for now in terms of lines cleared (you go up a level every 10 lines) and got a score of 6.8m on his game. Although Andy reached level 148, he got a score of 8.9m because he got more lines cleared at once (double, triples, tetrises) so its a score WR compared to the level WR, which Blue scutti still holds and which will only remain possible to beat up until the very last level at 255. There is a lot of world records you can get in Original Tetris for different things, so the game in some way is still far from "beaten" like many media and news station erroneously portrayed

[@creativeearthian1702]

@@pascald7863 thank you

[@dougnulton]

Pretty simple: score record vs. level record. “That kid from the news”, BlueScuti, got the highest level so far, and PixelAndy just got the new score record. You can get the score record without getting the level record by playing more aggressively: clearing larger lines simultaneously, instead of just “staying alive”.

[@mavrostetris]

That's crazy dude!!!

[@NinthSettler]

Tetris players are the ultimate gamers. Holy shit.

[@jasonjazzz5]

now that ppl are getting the kill screen, wonder how long before someone pulls off the 255 wrap around

[@charajaznao2829]

Buddy, may i do a "you say run" video with your footage? idk how this is asked but i found the specific minute to sync it

[@abandonedyoutubechannel]

13:06 why are there 6 squares now lol

[@dougnulton]

Can someone help explain to a noob how to read the fucked up scoring? I don’t need to know “why” it gets messed up - just how to read it. It switches from alphanumeric, to just numeric, back to alphanumeric and I’m totally lost lol. Do you need to be following along the whole time so that you know how many “switches” it has done?

[@Ialliac]

Tetris has been beaten, but in this game Tetris got DESTROYED!! GGs!!!

[@Sedona_FD3S]

YOU LEGEND!!!!!

[@corneredconnection]

I was there! i was Awesomecuber853!!! It was awesome! EDIT 12:06 :3 called it

[@theantrules6436]

i remember u from chat dono

[@corneredconnection]

lol! i was really active. @@theantrules6436

[@BennyMack]

You the man HOMIE

[@chewba2008]

Mindblowing!