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From: barry@network.ucsd.edu (Barry Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Tetris 35,000 points, that good?
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Date: 9 Sep 90 07:31:53 GMT
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In article <5402.26e83b61@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> syzy@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Don Lee) writes:
>In article <90928@cc.utah.edu>, TJACOBS@cc.utah.edu writes:
>> A friend of mine has achieved 35000 or so points in Tetris (the game not the
>> DA) and is wondering if thats a respectable score or not.
>> 
>That's a very respectable score - was that with or without look ahead?  A
>friend of mine and I had a bit of a competition on Tetris a while back and
>I managed to get 61,000+ (once - with look ahead) to edge out his 55,000+
>score. I think I've gotten above 30,000 only about five times. 

While watching a friend of mine play (a probably older version of) Tetris on
his 8MHz IBM clone, I noticed that the speed at which the shapes dropped
peaked after a certain point.  The top speed was, perhaps, 1-2 seconds from
top to bottom.  This, of course, made it extremely easy to amass a huge
score.

I have not noticed this behavior on non-IBM versions of the game.  All the
others continue to speed up until it becomes nearly impossible to move your
fingers fast enough.

I'm not an avid Tetris player and I've rarely broken 10,000 on my Mac.

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