NES Tetris - FIRST EVER 3 Million (Former Score World Record)

This game was absolutely insane. That's all I have to say about it. I beat the previous world record by 1.4 million points, which is only a little less than my PB was just a day before this game! Along with that, this is the first ever 3 million game, first ever double rollover, and it's lines world record for NTSC, by a lot.

Skip to 1:46 if you want to see Level 19

Records Broken:
Score (2,340,637 → 3,772,380)
Lines, Overall and 18-19 (586 / 579 → 895)
Level, Overall and 18-19 (68 / 63 → 95)
Post-Transition (1,700,640 → 3,133,540)
Post-Post-Transition (1,264,820 → 2,489,540)

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro, jump to 1m46 for the 19 transition
1:04 - Level 18 montage, full game video in description
1:46 - Level 19 onwards
5:02 - """Killscreen"""

Music Used:
Yasunori Nishiki - Orewell, Beneath the Crags (Octopath Traveler)

hi cheez

[echeauxahn]

May the blessings of Jonas never go unrecognized in naming world record games. GGs for truly an incredible game

[Kosmicd]

Wow, congratulations on your incredible achievement!

[yourpalmal]

What’s incredible to me is that 1 year ago today, on April fools, Joseph posted his world record of 1.4M, which at the time was groundbreaking. It’s insane how much the game has evolved in one short year. Incredible work man, here’s to 10M

[benmullen]

I've been out of the game and just heard of this feat!!!

Well dang, wow!

[jose_glz]

Congrats, Eric!! I'm sure more and more achievements like this will come :D
The JONAS detail at the end was a very touching moment ❤.

[ralphismyname]

I’m reminded of a quote from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.

The long jump was a record that had started to seem like it had truly reached its limit, with the record getting broken by only fractions of inches, eventually culminating in 27 feet, 4.75 inches by Ralph Boston.

On October 18th, 1964, Bob Beamon Jumped 29 feet 2.5 inches, beating the previous world record by 1 foot 9.75 inches. One of humanity’s greatest physical accomplishments of all time. Period.

Fellow competitor, and former long jump world record holder Igor Ter-Ovanesyan said this about Beamon’s jump,

“Compared to that jump, we are children”


What Eric accomplished on April 1st, 2022, beating the world record by 1.4 million points, is one of the greatest gaming accomplishments of all time. Period. Paragraph.

Compared to this game, we are children.

[tylerlarsen]

Do I even need to say that this is the greatest game of Classic Tetris ever played? I thought that the 700k jump to 2.3 million was absurd, but this is an entirely different level of absurdity that we don't know how to describe. All of the congratulations in the world to you, Eric.

[theactiveactivist]

The series of moves that start at 5:58, 11:05, 14:40, and 17:30 were the most satisfying parts of the video to me. Just professional cleaning and problem solving! I thought it was over after 17:30.

[Remainings]

the scores are getting too high now, its time for a score cap to be implemented, maybe at 999, 999 or something

[CrannBethadh]

Beautiful. Astonishing. Congrats! Very inspirational. Can't believe what has transpired in just one year on this game.

[arcreehysteria]

I've been following the improvement of this community from the outside for over 3 years now and that was some of the craziest gameplay I've ever seen

[cocaineinmyvein]

Breaks record and gets almost 4 million points!!

Tops out at 40k in CTM. I love this game!

[YoutubeCensorsYou]

Writing "JONAS" at the end was a very beautiful touch to a fantastic performance!

[LokiZemy]

Dedicated to Jonas was so very touching and honourable. Beautiful stuff buddy. Congrats and much deserved ❤👍✌

[ColossalFailure]

I admit when I saw you post it in Discord I didn't believe it. I guess it was just hilarious timing. Congrats on an absolute statement of a score!

[michadonald]

I think CTWC should consider having two simultaneous competitions. One for head to head sprints to the "killscreen" and a second marathon style, last man standing wins. The marathon finals could also be top 10 qualified race simultaneously.
That way efficiency is still important, but without nerfing the insane post 29 play.

[crispydoodles]

Congrats! I remember watching a documentary called Ecstacy of Order: The Tetris Masters years back, and they all said reaching level 30 was impossible. Look how far the speedrunners have pushed it since then!

[Kibi_Byte]

The tetris at 867 lines (level 92->93) brings in 112, 800 points.

[tuginwho]

Wtf some of those digs were nasty, u did not let that game do down easily, gg eric huge congrats

[Genjink]

The fact that 3 years ago we werent even close to rolling over the score counter once. And now we are rolling it over twice in one run is absolutely amazing