NES Tetris - FIRST EVER 3 Million (Former Score World Record)

[@echeauxahn3644]

May the blessings of Jonas never go unrecognized in naming world record games. GGs for truly an incredible game

[@GlowingCross]

RIP Jonas

[@davidschultz1562]

I think Jonas's last ever win in the CTWC was against this guy.

[@baraneo8195]

falsehood

[@Kosmicd12]

Wow, congratulations on your incredible achievement!

[@EricICX]

Thanks kosmic!

[@ParamThePianist]

Wow I didn't knew you were interested in Tetris as well! Big fan btw! :)

[@matheuscabral9618]

@@ParamThePianist and I’m pretty sure eric also likes smb1, it’s the NES family dude

[@nephilimequilibrium1410]

@@EricICX Its amazing bro/ Congrats and and gl =)

[@Piglymane]

Congratulation

[@yourpalmal6018]

What’s incredible to me is that 1 year ago today, on April fools, Joseph posted his world record of 1.4M, which at the time was groundbreaking. It’s insane how much the game has evolved in one short year. Incredible work man, here’s to 10M

[@dogplayingtetris]

bro LMAO the 1.4 was an april fools joke

[@maxdragonsoul5553]

yeah that was an april fools joke, his unrecorded 1.439m was from some months earlier

[@Alvin_Vivian]

That was only 1 year ago? Wow...

[@EebstertheGreat]

10M isn't the next milestone. First we have 1000 lines and then eventually the glitched palettes.

[@LeetTron5000]

all thanks to one unlocking the ability to move blocks past kill screen consistently

[@ralphismyname4940]

I’m reminded of a quote from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. The long jump was a record that had started to seem like it had truly reached its limit, with the record getting broken by only fractions of inches, eventually culminating in 27 feet, 4.75 inches by Ralph Boston. On October 18th, 1964, Bob Beamon Jumped 29 feet 2.5 inches, beating the previous world record by 1 foot 9.75 inches. One of humanity’s greatest physical accomplishments of all time. Period. Fellow competitor, and former long jump world record holder Igor Ter-Ovanesyan said this about Beamon’s jump, “Compared to that jump, we are children” What Eric accomplished on April 1st, 2022, beating the world record by 1.4 million points, is one of the greatest gaming accomplishments of all time. Period. Paragraph. Compared to this game, we are children.

[@MannifyYT2024]

Understatement Compared to this game, Maxouters are chirdren, and nonmaxouters are babies, so bcuz of this, im basically a baby with my best being 127k

[@ralphismyname4940]

@@MannifyYT2024 you haven’t even been conceived yet

[@MannifyYT2024]

@@ralphismyname4940 yeah 100%

[@tylerlarsen1842]

Do I even need to say that this is the greatest game of Classic Tetris ever played? I thought that the 700k jump to 2.3 million was absurd, but this is an entirely different level of absurdity that we don't know how to describe. All of the congratulations in the world to you, Eric.

[@jose_glz]

Congrats, Eric!! I'm sure more and more achievements like this will come :D The JONAS detail at the end was a very touching moment ❤.

[@benmullen295]

I've been out of the game and just heard of this feat!!! Well dang, wow!

[@comeonnow1107]

It's ridiculous what the game has turned into since from only just a few years ago.

[@tinymarsracing]

He really overdid the Ben Mullening in this game a bit...

[@benmullen295]

@@tinymarsracing He's the real Ben Mullen now!

[@tinymarsracing]

I guess that's just how Ben Mullen rolls... 🙄

[@Robert_McGarry_Poems]

Maybe the real Ben Mullens, were the friends we made along the way...😶

[@theactiveactivist515]

The series of moves that start at 5:58, 11:05, 14:40, and 17:30 were the most satisfying parts of the video to me. Just professional cleaning and problem solving! I thought it was over after 17:30.

[@ClassicTetris]

congrats!

[@xisktrl]

true GG

[@ilMario]

explorer

[@Remainings]

the scores are getting too high now, its time for a score cap to be implemented, maybe at 999,999 or something

[@ryanamburgy2791]

I agree @remainings

[@bltvd]

Lol

[@GodLandon]

Troll

[@Gloomba]

I agree, popular tetris youtuber remainings

[@XZYSquare]

at this point 1.5m woould be the target max

[@trevorrenson372]

I heard someone just beat this score by almost 3 million points. That guy must be really good ;)

[@rinylvinyl]

I hear he wears a glove too. Small world!

[@arcreehysteria9805]

I've been following the improvement of this community from the outside for over 3 years now and that was some of the craziest gameplay I've ever seen

[@CrannBethadh]

Beautiful. Astonishing. Congrats! Very inspirational. Can't believe what has transpired in just one year on this game.

[@YoutubeCensorsYou]

Writing "JONAS" at the end was a very beautiful touch to a fantastic performance!

[@Genjink]

The fact that 3 years ago we werent even close to rolling over the score counter once. And now we are rolling it over twice in one run is absolutely amazing

[@LokiZemy]

Dedicated to Jonas was so very touching and honourable. Beautiful stuff buddy. Congrats and much deserved ❤👍✌

[@Kibi_Byte]

The tetris at 867 lines (level 92->93) brings in 112,800 points.

[@kabliss4111]

Just need about 9 tetrises to get a maxout If only it was that easy...

[@ColossalFailure]

I admit when I saw you post it in Discord I didn't believe it. I guess it was just hilarious timing. Congrats on an absolute statement of a score!

[@michadonald]

I think CTWC should consider having two simultaneous competitions. One for head to head sprints to the "killscreen" and a second marathon style, last man standing wins. The marathon finals could also be top 10 qualified race simultaneously. That way efficiency is still important, but without nerfing the insane post 29 play.

[@dandanthedandan7558]

I think the current format is still fine. If the meta will heavily focus on post-29 play in the future, pre-29 will have less of an impact, yeah, but efficiency in making post-29 tetrises allows for a bigger jump in score allowing one to burn more often, allowing a longer marathon. Efficiency is still important

[@michadonald]

@@dandanthedandan7558 The problem is that the top post 29 players eventually will be able to line out indefinitely. (Barring stupid mistakes) I think the head to head meta will inevitably go in that direction. My suggestion is for if/when that occurs.

[@dantedeloden]

@@michadonald well, if someone who can post 29 play, plays efficient and gets to level 50ish, but still manages about a 50-60% tetris rate, their score would be SO HIGH in comparison to someone who lined like crazy and reached near level 90 with like a 10% or less tetris rate. early post 29 he was gaining 75k+ per tetris, but his final tetris i believe was roughly 110k+. so even EARLY post 29, efficiency > lining period. HOWEVER, if you CAN LINE forever AND be efficient. you in theory could have a line out game into the 70-80 level area THEN try to max efficiency, which would do great IF u can survive long enough. this is why efficiency even early post 29 is still important

[@dantedeloden]

and if ur that efficient at tetrising post 29, why line to 80 just to do it. just keep tetrising the entire time if ur that good. and this game SHOWS how NOT ONLY efficient he WAS playing, but how SCARED and TIMID he was about topping out, he built near tetris like 50 times, SHOULD have finished building, but got scared and burned down the stack. yet u see 3 or so scenarios where he misplaces, is about 7-8 high with holes, and digs out no problem. HE CAN efficiently run post 29. he just needs to CHOOSE to basically.

[@kypdurron62]

@@michadonald No they won't. You see a game like this and you think 29 play can be indefinite, but there are hundreds if not thousands of games where the post 29 lasts only a few levels.

[@tuginwho]

Wtf some of those digs were nasty, u did not let that game do down easily, gg eric huge congrats

[@ryanamburgy2791]

Tugi

[@crispydoodles]

Congrats! I remember watching a documentary called Ecstacy of Order: The Tetris Masters years back, and they all said reaching level 30 was impossible. Look how far the speedrunners have pushed it since then!

[@EebstertheGreat]

Some people really did not believe that Thor could have gotten a maxout _or_ level 30. Thor claimed he got both many times, and now we know that's probably true. It's funny how something can seem impossible until you see people do it. I also love the part of that movie where I think Harry is talking to Thor about getting to level 30 with a center well strat. Thor was convinced that if Harry can max the game out, he can easily get to 30 with that strat, and Harry just seems amazed. Part of the reason nobody could get to 30 is that they didn't even really try, because it just seemed too hard.

[@thuggeegaming659]

These guys are not speedrunners. You can speedrun Tetris but the major accomplishments in total points or levels have nothing to do with speedrunning.

[@dantedeloden]

the most impressive shit is at 2.5m he misplaces a couple times trying to dig out. he gets pretty high stacked, and STILL digs out while misplacing during the dig out. its so amazing watching this section. it blows me away

[@bigmistqke]

ye those digs were a thing of pure beauty

[@dantedeloden]

@@bigmistqke when the movie ecstasy of order the tetris masters came out, and at the end the level 30 + maxout was demonstrated at the end by Thor, i never imagined the game being pushed this far. especially in such a short time with such an amazingly ingenius technique. ive been in awe of the progress and only wish jonas was still here to see this happening. RIP JONAS THE ORIGINAL MASTER

[@NarutoSSj6]

Someone call an ambulance. His brain is cooked. I never would have thought that i would space out in a tetris game. Damn, piece fell so fast for so long that my soul wandered away. I can only imagine the skills and timings that goed into these world records. Its really amongst the hardest things to master. It makes you wonder if this game ever went mainstreaming in this times, if more and more players with such skills would br found, or are these the absolute elites of tetris that has gone over to NES.

[@FrayRS]

The 9 high left long bar at around 2.6m score was insane.

[@neutralrobot]

That is the exact moment that blew my mind in this run.

[@ig2d]

Tetris at 20:06 =112,800 points

[@АртёмЗайчик-д3в]

Camera didn't survive the killscreen for so long. Eric survived. GG

[@bqh3795]

I just took a break from watching NES Tetris news for like a week and this happened xD Freaking insanity bro, congrats!

[@FrayRS]

CTWC 2022 is going to be a bizarre experience. No score will be safe.

[@chimyshark]

there's gonna be a line cap most likely.

[@FrayRS]

@@chimyshark I hope not. That would make it incredibly boring.

[@chimyshark]

@@FrayRS really? I think the going on forever and catching up post-killscreen is boring because it reduces the incentive to play well on lv 18-19 and the gameplay is overall less proficient with weaker solves and fewer tetrises. line cap would mean skill matters.

[@FrayRS]

@@chimyshark Definutely. The fact that there are three overall scores ever that are 1.7+ shows that these games are 1/1,000,000. Most games they'll top out level 30-33. But the POSSIBILITY that someone could just go insanely deep and win against all odds is exciting. Further, from watching CTM, when Alex T and Cheez were both sending it to level 35+ in killscreen at the same time, I have never seen a Tetris moment more exciting than that.

[@buttecake]

I think it's more boring to watch pre rolling because you know the result before the end of the game a lot of the time. With rolling there is always a chance of something crazy happening. I do agree that there is somepart of the art of classic Tetris that has been lost in the new era

[@generalkilbabathemadmansch3602]

Love the Tetris players community. Seems proper chill and everyone happy with others success. I wonder if Joseph will ever be seen in a finals again and if so we he have to master rolling?

[@lordmuaddib]

what an a game! GGs all over man. the competitive scenario changed so much over the years! at the beginning it was a marathon to see who could reach maxout, then it became a race to get more points before killscreen, and now it's an endurance against infinity! amazing! what will be coming next?

[@herreragonza5891]

G freaking G's dude! Hard work pays off. Jonas would be proud of this comunity.

[@ryanamburgy2791]

Double rollover, and around two thirds of the way to colors. Jesus Christ Eric

[@rookoutrogue2603]

Incredible job sir!! Very well done and well deserved. Thank you for sharing the video with us too!

[@am3thist295]

Congrats on the wr man. Such an inspiration to push myself to the limits in modern tetris.

[@n10tan1gam1]

Whoa, Eric's Tetris career must be worth a lot for him to stake this staged video on! Kap. Spoilers below: That's insane to have a C on 28!! Way to not let the moment and adrenaline get to you! This was so incredible to watch.. I went through a rollercoaster of emotion during each burn down section. This now is an incorruptible piece of Tetris history! May all these incredible Tetris have great fortune as the mark on target score now becomes the inspiration for their journeys.

[@kingyodah5415]

This game has almost everything, myles digs, insane scores, rollovers, failed camera. I am only missing the bugged colors

[@zetsupetsu6051]

Eating Pizza and Mt dew in between tetrises

[@EricICX]

@@zetsupetsu6051 and a lava lamp in the background

[@khangton676]

This has got to be one of the defining achievements in the history of this sports. Congratulations Eric, you are and will always be a legend.

[@vidalvgrobu8954]

Можно с уверенностью сказать - этот парень ПРОШЕЛ тетрис

[@stevemelo]

Wait... You mean to tell me that this wasn't just an April fools joke?! THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED??! 😲😲😲 I don't even know what to say! I just watched the whole video and I still can't believe it! All I can say is HUGE CONGRATULATIONS! WOW!! Now please excuse me while I still continue to process this.

[@ryanamburgy2791]

It’s not, it actually happened

[@messivsronaldostudio4643]

now he is tetris world champion.

[@mightypotato]

It blows my mind that the Tetris community has figured out how to get around a kill screen. Crazy how far things have progressed.

[@w7u]

1) holy fucking shit a double rollover wtf 2) I want a summoning salt Tetris video now

[@tannerg2864]

Congrats Eric so awesome!

[@EebstertheGreat]

One thing that strikes me is that I kind of felt back in the day like everyone assumed the only way to beat the killscreen was to never make a mistake. But the actual way to beat it was just to get so fast that you can still fix your mistakes at that speed. It was never too fast to begin with.

[@kitsunnysnowy]

ntsc colors, das rollover, and 29-5 clear (if possible). these are the final frontiers of nes tetris that i hope we will get to see. insane to think of how demolished this game has become. good shit eric

[@w7u]

Level 255 when

[@kitsunnysnowy]

@@w7uthat too. that would be well over an hour, maybe close to two hours of gameplay. not making a fatal mistake for that long is so absurd but doable

[@hitzcritz]

I thought this was an April Fools joke. Now, I'm just straight up blown away...

[@edwintan4066]

Who'd have thought it? NES Tetris has become a game that can be marathoned now.

[@kallocarina8879]

Ah the summoning salt opening

[@z2sam]

lol i have no words, congratulations Eric!

[@kingraph]

Congratulations, the Tetris community continues to push this WR to insane levels!

[@holtikultura911]

it's now a tradition to input JONAS each time someone break the world record

[@clementmorelle4607]

C'est un bijou. Le rolling a quand même cassé Tetris, préférant la vitesse au détriment du build. M'enfin ça reste une vidéo exceptionnelle.

[@SylvainBerube]

En même temps, la vitesse seule ne permet pas d'atteindre ce genre de sommet, ça prend aussi une maîtrise du build exceptionnelle.

[@clementmorelle4607]

@@SylvainBerube Dog vient de battre son PB, je trouve sa partie plus incroyable, car il build mieux. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d2bLkGSfarKVoqM&ab_channel=dogplayingtetris

[@corypalmer5538]

I started to cry when you typed in Jonas at the end. So much respect young master.

[@ryanamburgy2791]

I repeat, *level 95*

[@brandenmcgee5125]

Damn. That was incredible. Congratulations.

[@jcrobot]

I can't help but think of Summoning Salt because of your music choice.

[@JimmyBoosterCrate]

This game is getting torn apart. This is amazing but at the same time I miss the days where 1.4M was groundbreaking

[@YourEverydayNerd]

INSANE! Dude, congrats!! Jonas would be proud.

[@simon_tetris]

Congrats Eric, that's amazing!

[@borthelcash6046]

At this point, "the greatest game" has yet to settle into any stable meaning. Look at last year; level records and killscreen line/score records were being broken left and right, with players like AlexT, Eric, Richy (Ruins), Pokenerd, Huff, Hydrantdude, and Fractal (PAL), among others. Even DAS had some insane games, with Sharky/Tristop performing a combined B3B maxout in competition, and Tristop and Tugi getting the first DAS 1.3s. Now this year; PAL has been taken into plaid, an all-time lines record was set with a * 29 start *, and now, this video, the cherry on top, or maybe it's just another layer to the cake. It's like in 2019 we had Pentium MMXs, and now this year we're getting Core2 Duos. I * cannot * wait to see how high the limits will be pushed!

[@nks1384]

welcome to the tetris community, the only community where we understand jokes about old intel processors.

[@mathwiz1007]

Never did I think that I’d see a Tetris game that would make me want to cry… you deserve all the praise, my good sir

[@c-dubs]

nice pfp :)

[@GalileoSunshine]

Huge congratulations!! My mind just keeps getting blown by these WRs. Simply wow!!!

[@RussianRaw]

Insane! And thank you for remembering Jonas!

[@TessaTickle]

I'm too old for this. I can't even keep up as a spectator! :-D

[@ender2999]

Congrats. Couldn’t have been done by a better person. Love the high score tribute

[@Alvin_Vivian]

I wish the camera didn't go out before the former WR was broken... so people can't say shit about him cheating.

[@messivsronaldostudio4643]

we all know it not cheat

[@andrew4042]

oh dang, congrats man

[@accountnamewithheld]

Very apt you used Summoning Salt's music. This was historic. Well fucking done.

[@iBall1]

18:41 missed frame perfect input, should’ve reset.

[@algebruh4185]

SMB1 strats

[@yussefcheaitou]

it's time to make roller's competitive games start at 19

[@vincentpham991]

This is so insane! I remember watching the first 1.3m from Joseph in 2020 and now we‘re at 3.7m!

[@brandonprovost4714]

Legendary! Congratulations!

[@stragomagus9922]

I don't understand how rolling works, but that works.

[@gr4ndv1ll3]

You are an incredible escape artist. Bravo!

[@nicholasyeung3510]

Congrats!

[@ninoflorido9805]

Congrats! Great game, i didn't want it to end!

[@PragmaticAntithesis]

You topped out at level 94. *94!!* Only a matter of time before someone reaches level 100.

[@ryanamburgy2791]

It was 95 not 94

[@АртёмЗайчик-д3в]

Eric: playing 29+ like just having fun Camera: FTS I'M OUT

[@CaryTheEagle]

Thanks for letting us know it is not some late april fools joke.

[@ant-wan]

Absolutely insane ! Some players did 1.1 or 1.2 millons, Cheez did 2 times more with 2.3 millions and you, you did 3 times more with 3.7 millions... wow, gg for this and for doing level 95 😳

[@suupre]

congrats on making it into the Summoning Salt video

[@kellyfreas]

Eric, this is insane! Basic principles for a WR in Classic Tetris from 2022 onwards: 1. decent stacking skills - elementary for staying alive 2. rolling - for speed, especially post kill-screen 3. friendly RNG (AKA RN Jesus). After Cheez's 2.3M it became obvious that the WR's glass ceiling just disappeared, I'm looking forward to how it changes the competitive scene which still is a different story.

[@GregCannon7]

RNG starts to matter less the longer the runs go on, especially since you don't need to gamble on long bars for 90% Tetrises pre-killscreen anymore

[@kellyfreas]

​@@GregCannon7 Right, if you can maintain kill screen play long enough, you can get anywhere with singles. Is there a level cap in NES Tetris?

[@GregCannon7]

@@kellyfreas with the score uncap that most players use, the game crashes around level 230-240. If you leave the score capped at 999,999 it crashes around 150. The community is still figuring out what should count for records, since until recently it wasn't known that the uncap score mod had any effect on gameplay

[@thuggeegaming659]

I noticed the Tetris rate was pretty low post kill screen. Seems to be a good strategy to simply play safe, rather than try to build for tetrises. Excellent work!

[@messivsronaldostudio4643]

try to has tetris in kill screen will game over.

[@onlylove11000]

Holy crap and right on, Eric!! ✨

[@owenmason3835]

congrats dude!!!

[@rickygonzalez3152]

ALMOST reached Level 100, but was only 5 levels short. (LV 95)

[@Benobot99]

This is beyond ridiculous. Wow. 😯😯😯😯😯😯😯

[@daxmoney5011]

3 million points this game has been destroyed

[@mr.niceguy6413]

Nice intro music , me like very much .i asked summoning salt , even he wont tell me who made this masterpiece ^^

[@victor00123q]

So amazing!! Keep it up! This motivated me to get back into Tetris!

[@michael2244]

Eric has always been one of the fastest tappers in the world, now he's one of the best rollers in the world. Congrats on the WR

[@Yodakaycool]

Insanity bro!!! I’m trying to catch up on the news. Like 14:52 …. Thanks for the inspiration. Legend bro

[@SeungKyuYang]

well the game has changed folks, a REAL marathon from now on.

[@WorldsBestHector]

GGs that was some 🔥 Tetris play!!

[@KorZen10]

Great job on the 572k! You have lots of potential. Keep up the good work and you can reach 600k in no time. Maybe you can even get a maxout one day!

[@michutetris6502]

Another historical milestone. Well done, Eric!

[@arravolleyball]

CTWC just went from a few days to a month long event.

[@dillonfreed]

Class act man.. love it.... I saw the JONAS... :)

[@Swaggicus]

Arguably the most insane Tetris world record ever set

[@NinetyLegos]

Not to mention not arguably the best timing for an absolutely unbelievable game

[@MikeDolanFliss]

The most insane Tetris world record ever set... so far! - Homer

[@mukburbur696]

Scaling makes the scoring so crazy, amazing achievement, I think Eric is going to set the next WR again, calling it now, 5m plus!

[@Solid0528]

Well, just unbelievable. Great job!

[@ryanamburgy2791]

It’s not an April fools joke

[@Solid0528]

@@ryanamburgy2791 fixed it.