Being good at computer games

[andrewducker]

I remember, back when the original Doom was out, there being someone who could do the first level with the monitor was off. Because it wasn't that big a level, and things always acted the same, managing it would have been damn tricky, but not impossible by any means. I reckon that given enough practice I could manage it.

I cannot imagine ever being able to do what the person in this video is doing though.
First of all they're playing Tetris at top difficulty (i.e. reacting faster than I can actually see) _and_ only picking up four rows at a time. Then (skip to the five minute point, because this is unbelievable) they play tetris where dropped pieces become invisible. And winning. Because, one assumes, they're memorising where all of the random fucking pieces have dropped, so they can add the next random piece in the right place.
And _still_ doing it faster than I could reasonably play normal Tetris.

(cheers to devinjay for the video)

Comments

[0olong.livejournal.com]

That is... insane.

I'm pretty good at Tetris (still leading among my friends in the Facebook Tetris Tournament application, though that's out of a pretty small pool) but I've been conscious for a while that there are people out there who are many, many times as good as me. It's pretty scary really.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

This is special version of Tetris not available this side of the pond. There is a very fair way in which pieces of selected to avoid any massive duplications or any instances of no 1x4 pieces not appearing. Also each of the sound effect you hear tell the user what the NEXT piece is going to be so that can hear what is coming. Also you will notice that the pieces dont drop, they show the position that they will fall. This means you can do rolling motions on the joystick to fit T pieces into gaps and such without any risk of mistakes.

Don't get me wrong, to get this good must have taken months of practice, but the game itself is not the tetris that we know and love from Nintendo days; this one is built for speed runs to 999 lines.

[avatar.livejournal.com]

I was looking at that invisible tetris bit to see if he had some sort of pattern to place certain pieces in certain areas - but I couldn't see it.

[azalemeth.livejournal.com]

Computer scientists! Analyse this guy to find all your new box-packing algorithms!