THE BEST TETRIS SCORE EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[whw5]

Hey Guys, I just had the best tetris score ever. I dont think anyone can even touch this one, but just curious, has anyone ever gotten a higher score? This game took my like 35min to play. I feel so accomplished. :D :D :p

[mlw1235]

Never gotten QUITE that high, but mad props to you nonetheless.

I probably could go that long play, but it would have to be a really really boring day in calculus. ;) ;)

[haiggy]

Congrats, Will :P

[Mechcozmo]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.

[angelneo]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.
Learning something new everyday....

[njmac]

Congratulations! I love the name Will :D that's what I named my little boy.

[sorryiwasdreami]

Nice work! I've never played that particular variant of Tetris, but it took me over 40 minutes to get 250 lines in Quinn. I thought that was pretty good.

[gwuMACaddict]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.

hahaha- no kidding... had NO idea that was there... :D

[combatcolin]

Even though Tetris appered on veirtually every games console and computer the original Game Boy version is the best.

Every thing else just dosn't feel right, this coming from a Spectrum gamer!!

[Jovian9]

Personally I am a big fan of the NES version of Tetris....but I do not think I've ever reached that high of a score on that.

[AmigoMac]

Congratulations, that's amazing, I'm not a fan of tetris anymore, at the end of the day I used to see how everything was like tetris and I could match my whole family in a box... You reminded me my aunt, it was 10 years ago that she used to have the best score in the family, she could play hours with her nintendo, yes, her nintendo, and at that time she was 39... I may consider to play tetris again, congratulations...

[tpjunkie]

The best is when you launch the Kremlin on the NES version...i forgot how many points it took to do it, i only managed it once. Usually it launches nothing or a crappy little rocket...

[lordmac]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.

Erg I tried this but when i typed in emacs and pressed enter, it gave me an error. this tricked sounded so cool but why wont it work for me. Im on a rev.c a 12 inch powerbook with panther and all the latest updates. :(
Im in english class right now and im very bored so I would dearly like to be able to play tetris.

[haiggy]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.


I have never been able to get this to work. I press ESC+X and I get a window that has writing above it and then says 'x' below. What am I doing wrong?

[lordmac]

Oh ya, congrats on the tetris score. :) :)

[Jovian9]

The best is when you launch the Kremlin on the NES version...i forgot how many points it took to do it, i only managed it once. Usually it launches nothing or a crappy little rocket...

I think this launched when you reached the final level and got so many lines. If I remember correctly there were 19? levels of Tetris on the NES version?.....and once you reached the amount of lines that would move you up to the next level...10 maybe? (while you were on 19).....it would launch the Kremlin when your game ended. What a great game! They need Tetris on the next iPod Software update:)

[GeeYouEye]

I still play the original Mac version of Tetris by Spectrum Holobyte (what a great name for a software company!)... has the greatest of all Tetris soundtracks, which unfortunately doesn't play on a PPC processor. My personal best there is 8807 (in level 9, the blocks fall are like in freefall with heavy gravity), but a my dad could get up to 9200, and a friend of mine recently scored 9527.

[Blue Velvet]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.

Fab!
Great – another time-wasting nifty thing to do on my Mac.

:)

[roadapple]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.

Wow, best mac rumors tip ever.

[haiggy]

Hmmmm ever since I got my Mac I noticed Terminal is screwy. If I just use the top command and try to type anything else, it doesn't work. I have to open a new Terminal window. This only seems to be the problem with the 'top' command. For the ESC-x thing, it just escapes that 'emacs' thing and writes an x in the window. Strange. :confused:

[applekid]

Piggy backing on Mechcozmo, there are other games besides Tetris on your Mac that are accessible through the Terminal. Give MacAddicts a try. They might have that hint posted on their website. And, I'm sure the info is available elsewhere.

Back to the original poster, I will say that is a great score! :) People, ignore score, but look at the amount of lines cleared! There's so many versions of Tetris now it wouldn't be fair to say you got the highest score ever when you can easily reach 1,000,000 when someone can barely get to 50,000 on another version. I think the most lines I ever cleared was around 200 on my sister's cell phone, playing for about 30 minutes.

[combatcolin]

I still play the original Mac version of Tetris by Spectrum Holobyte (what a great name for a software company!)... has the greatest of all Tetris soundtracks, which unfortunately doesn't play on a PPC processor. My personal best there is 8807 (in level 9, the blocks fall are like in freefall with heavy gravity), but a my dad could get up to 9200, and a friend of mine recently scored 9527.

Disn't they do loads of Flight sims?

[FoxyKaye]

Congrats on the score - never ever got near that high.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.

This was *really* cool! The first Tetris I played was on a Magnavox 386SX laptop - it was the original PC version that ran in DOS.

[Ambrose Chapel]

Hey Guys, I just had the best tetris score ever. I dont think anyone can even touch this one, but just curious, has anyone ever gotten a higher score? This game took my like 35min to play. I feel so accomplished. :D :D :p

back in college, on my color classic, playing whatever tetris was around then, i got 987 lines. yep. took a long time. i could've gotten 1,000 but choked.

[Mechcozmo]

Hmmmm ever since I got my Mac I noticed Terminal is screwy. If I just use the top command and try to type anything else, it doesn't work. I have to open a new Terminal window. This only seems to be the problem with the 'top' command. For the ESC-x thing, it just escapes that 'emacs' thing and writes an x in the window. Strange. :confused:

The reason that you need to open a new Terminal window is that you are still running top. Send a break command to allow you to run another process. (Control+C sends a break)

I have never been able to get this to work. I press ESC+X and I get a window that has writing above it and then says 'x' below. What am I doing wrong?

Didja type "tetris" and then press return? No quotes, mind you...

Here is a picture showing the various stages of what you do. BTW, ESC is also known as the meta key in emacs, hence the M-x prompt.


http://forums.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=19833&stc=1

[takao]

I think this launched when you reached the final level and got so many lines. If I remember correctly there were 19? levels of Tetris on the NES version?.....and once you reached the amount of lines that would move you up to the next level...10 maybe? (while you were on 19).....it would launch the Kremlin when your game ended. What a great game! They need Tetris on the next iPod Software update:)

isn't it once you've got past 200.000 (or something like that) on the open end version (A ??? )
when doing levels i think it were those dancing figures ?

Hint for the NES version : try pressing the select key when your bricks hit the ground .. ;) gives you 10.000 each time ... at least i rember it that way

[rhpenguin]

They need Tetris on the next iPod Software update:)

iPod linux my friend... iPod linux....

[ReanimationLP]

Oh, btw. Ive also found that Pong also works, which gets you Pong, ironcially. :D

[Agent Smith]

I have never been able to get this to work. I press ESC+X and I get a window that has writing above it and then says 'x' below. What am I doing wrong?

I got it on the second time...you need to press Esc and X at the same time, not Esc then X like a keyboard shortcut :)

[Mechcozmo]

I got it on the second time...you need to press Esc and X at the same time, not Esc then X like a keyboard shortcut :)

Ah, that might help...

Yes, pong works. There are dozens of games. So next time your Windoze buddy says "I've got solitaire, what do you have?" open up "doctor" and say that this program will help you...

[GFLPraxis]

Wow, best mac rumors tip ever.

Here's a better one.

ESC+X in emacs, and type "doctor" instead of "tetris". Or "pong". But the psychiatrist you get when you type doctor is just hilarious.

[jamdr]

I used to be really into Tetris. On the NES version I got like 250 thou. My favorite version ever is Tetris DX for the Game Boy Color. The original Tetris for the Game Boy actually had really crappy controls. They were much tighter in the DX version.

[thequicksilver]

Original Tetris on the original Game Boy is the game of kings. My best score was just over 300,000 points - think it was 179 lines. It was just insane by that point, got to the point where it was impossible to move the shapes all the way to the edge of the screen.

Best game ever.

[ravenvii]

I used to enjoy Tetris back in the day, on the NES. Never was any good at it though. My best was somewhere in the 50's. The emacs Tetris is awkward - the pieces, being text-based, are a bit mishapen. Still a fun little distraction though :)

[Drakek]

Meh, you've gotta play the real tetris.

Open a terminal window. Type "emacs" (no quotes) and press enter. Then press escape+x. Type "tetris" and press enter (again no quotes). Use the arrow keys to play.
wuts terminal?
:confused:

woops sry nevermind

[redboot]

Check out this:

http://www.sloppydisk.com/descender/scores/

[whw5]

Check out this:

http://www.sloppydisk.com/descender/scores/
I just tried that version. I'd say its pretty good but more hard because the lag time between the pieces coming down is greater than on the neave version.