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34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”

For decades after its 1989 release, each of the hundreds of millions of standard NES Tetris games ended the same way: A block reaches the top of the screen and triggers a "game over" message. That ...
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A person who has broken through the true upper limit of the NES version of Tetris and entered the second round appears, and the game goes beyond the kill screen and into the ...

Tetris for the NES (Overseas Family Computer) has a feature that 'the speed at which the tetriminos fall increases as the level increases, and at a certain level or higher, it reaches a speed that is ...
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Donkey Kong’s famed kill screen has been cleared for the first time

If you watched the 2007 documentary King of Kong or followed the controversy surrounding score-chaser Billy Mitchell, you know all about Donkey Kong's famous kill screen. For over four decades, no one ...
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Nintendo swiftly rolls out another Switch update after the last one trapped some users on an error screen when loading up their consoles

Nintendo just rolled out yet another Switch console update after its last big one, which added Virtual Game Card functionality and laid the groundwork for the Switch 2's upcoming GameShare feature, ...