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Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris (www.polygon.com)
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[–] calculuschild@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Tetris doesn't really have an end. It just keeps going. So this is a very specific crash where if you get far enough into the game, it can't keep up with the player any more. You "beat" Tetris by playing so well you make the game break.

This is similar to getting pacman to crash by beating level 255 at which point incrementing the level goes past what can be stored and the data gets corrupted.