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From: deichman@cod.NOSC.MIL (Shane D. Deichman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Tetris 35,000 points, that good?
Message-ID: <2251@cod.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 14 Sep 90 17:51:53 GMT
References: <90928@cc.utah.edu>
Reply-To: deichman@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Shane D. Deichman)
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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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.
>
>Anybody have a higher score?
>
>Just curious.

Tetris is the kind of game that you can get into a groove on and
never stop (that is, until your eyes start watering, your wrist
starts aching, and your hand starts cramping -- I'm not as good
right-handed as I am left-handed).  Once I broke 20,000, I got
scores of 32,000; 45,000; then 53,000! (800+ lines).  On the DA,
I got similar scores, then on one fateful day broke 1,000 lines
with a score of 72,000.  I have no scores in the 60's, so it's
possible to get on a tear....

[Note:  I am confident that these scores are some of the highest
around....  I've been eagerly searching for competition in the 
Southern Calif. area for a tourament.  I was only a runner up
in a Tetris championship in San Francisco last March, though the
guy who beat me can get nowhere close to my IBM (boo, hiss) score
of 18,000 -- a much harder system than is on the Mac].

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