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Andrew Artiaga
Andrew Artiaga, known online as P1xelAndy, is an American ''Tetris'' player from Texas. Competitively, Artiaga has placed second in the 2020 Classic Tetris World Championships (CTWC) and third in the 2022 CTWC. On January 4, 2024, Artiaga also became the third person to ever "beat" the game, only days after his competitors did so for the first time. From a young age, Andrew and his younger brother Michael Artiaga experimented in coding, computing, and gaming, with their father being a web developer. Practicing classic NES Tetris only occasionally before on their home Nintendo Game Boy, both brothers would be inspired to pursue the game further after 16-year-old Joseph Saelee's victory against the 37-year-old and previous champion Jonas Neubauer on YouTube in the 2018 CTWC, marking the beginning of a new generation of Tetris players to the competitive scene. Artiaga has continued to remain competitive since, placing high in his Seed (sports), seed for every CTWC since 2020. Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Tetris World Championship
The Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) is a video game competition series, hosted by the Portland Retro Gaming Expo. The competition launched in 2010, during the filming of '' Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters'' to determine the world's greatest ''Tetris'' player. In its first two years, the competition was held in Los Angeles, California, but was moved to Portland, Oregon, in 2012, and has been held there annually since (with the exceptions of the 2020 and 2021 tournaments, held online due to the COVID-19 pandemic). The contestants play the 1989 Nintendo version of ''Tetris'' on actual Nintendo Entertainment System consoles and CRT televisions. The final rounds are streamed online with live-edited screens and heads-up display to improve viewer experience. The tournament was initially dominated by Jonas Neubauer, who reached the finals in the first nine iterations of the tournament and won seven titles. Since Neubauer's final win in 2017, the tournament has been do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famiclone
A Famiclone is any clone console of the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), known in Japan as the Family Computer or Famicom. They are electronic hardware devices designed to replicate the workings of, and play games designed for, the NES and Famicom. Hundreds of unauthorized clones and unlicensed copies have been made available since the height of the NES popularity in the late 1980s. The technology employed in such clones has evolved over the years: while the earliest clones feature a printed circuit board containing custom or third party integrated circuits (ICs), more recent (post-1996) clones utilize single chip designs, with a custom Application-specific integrated circuit, ASIC which simulates the functionality of the original hardware, and often includes one or more on-board games. Most devices originate in China and Taiwan, and less commonly South Korea. In some locales, especially former Eastern Bloc, former Soviet Union countries, South America, various Asian countries, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willis Gibson
Willis Gibson (born January 27, 2010), also known online as Blue Scuti, is an American classic ''Tetris'' player from Stillwater, Oklahoma. He is best known for becoming the first person to "beat" the game on December 21, 2023, after he triggered a killscreen on the previously-unreached level 157, crashing the game. Gibson became interested in ''Tetris'' at 11 years old after he watched related content on YouTube. He later began to pursue the game competitively: adopting the rolling technique to move the game pieces faster, and participating in tournaments including the Classic Tetris World Championship in 2023, where he placed third. After fellow ''Tetris'' players including Justin Yu began to attempt to reach the game's killscreen, Gibson followed suit, where he was ultimately successful. He gained international attention after the achievement, being interviewed by ''The New York Times'' and ''Good Morning America''. In one such interview, Gibson dedicated his achievement t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crash (computing)
In computing, a crash, or system crash, occurs when a computer program such as a software application or an operating system stops functioning properly and exits. On some operating systems or individual applications, a crash reporting service will report the crash and any details relating to it (or give the user the option to do so), usually to the developer(s) of the application. If the program is a critical part of the operating system, the entire system may crash or hang, often resulting in a kernel panic or fatal system error. Most crashes are the result of a software bug. Typical causes include accessing invalid memory addresses, incorrect address values in the program counter, buffer overflow, overwriting a portion of the affected program code due to an earlier bug, executing invalid machine instructions (an illegal opcode), or triggering an unhandled exception. The original software bug that started this chain of events is typically considered to be the cause ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Yu
Justin Yu, known online as Fractal161, is an American Classic Tetris, classic ''Tetris'' player from Dallas, Texas. He is best known for his victory in the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC), for becoming the second person to Tetris (NES video game)#Technical problems at very high levels, "beat" the game, and first to achieve its earliest possible Crash (computing), game crash on January 3, 2024. Beginning to play ''Tetris'' around 2016, Yu entered the competitive scene around 2019, and was one of the first players to fully adopt a new and faster playing style called "Rolling (Tetris), rolling". Through repeated practice and by studying the game's Assembly (programming), programming assembly, Yu finished as the runner-up in the 2022 CTWC and won the 2023 CTWC while also a Junior (education year)#College, Junior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). After winning the CTWC, Yu focused on becoming the first person to Tetris (NES video game)#Technical problem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravensburg
Ravensburg ( Swabian: ''Raveschburg'') is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg. Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it was an Imperial Free City and an important trading centre. The "Great Ravensburg Trading Society" (''Große Ravensburger Handelsgesellschaft'') owned shops and trading companies all over Europe. The historic city centre is still very much intact, including three city gates and over 10 towers of the medieval fortification. "The all-white Mehlsack ( Flour sack) is a tower marking the Altstadt’s southern edge. A steep staircase leads up to the Veitsburg, a quaint baroque castle." History Ravensburg was first mentioned in writing in 1088. It was founded by the Welfs, a Frankish dynasty in Swabia who became later Dukes of Bavaria and Saxony and who made the castle of Ravensburg their ancestral seat. By a contract of inheritance, in 1191 the Hohenstaufen Frederick Barbaros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravensburger
Ravensburger AG is a German game and toy company, publishing house and market leader in the European jigsaw puzzle market. History The company was founded by Otto Robert Maier in Ravensburg, a town in Upper Swabia in southern Germany. He began publishing in 1883 with his first author contract. He started publishing instruction folders for craftsmen and architects, which soon acquired him a solid financial basis. His first board game appeared in 1884, named ''Journey Around the World''. At the turn of the 20th century, his product line broadened to include picture books, books, children’s activity books, art instruction manuals, non-fiction books, and reference books as well as children’s games, Happy Families, and activity kits. In 1900, the Ravensburger blue triangle trademark was registered with the Imperial patent office. As of 1912, many board and activity games had an export version that was distributed to Western Europe, the countries of the Danube Monarchy as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Five
High five is a friendly gesture in which one individual slaps another's hand. High five (and variants such as Hi5, Hi-5, and Hi-Five) may also refer to: Music * Hi-5 (Australian group), an Australian children's musical group * Hi-5 (Greek band), a Greek all-girl pop group * Hi-5 (South African band), a South African boy band * Hi-Five, a rhythm and blues quintet from Waco, Texas ** ''Hi-Five'' (album) * The Hi-Fives, a rock and roll band from San Francisco, California * Hi-Five (Israeli band), a 1990s Israeli boy band * Jim Lowe and the High Fives, 1950s band * ''High Five'' (album), by Teen Top * "Hi-Five" (song), a song by Superfly * "High Five" (Yuma Nakayama song), 2014 * "High 5 (Rock the Catskills)", a song by Beck from '' Odelay'' Television * ''Hi-5'' (American TV series), the television series starring the American group * ''Hi-5'' (Australian TV series), the television series starring the Australian group * ''Hi-5'' (British TV series), the television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prima Games
Prima Games is a publishing company of video game strategy guides in the United States. Formerly, Prima was an imprint of Dorling Kindersley, a division of Penguin Random House, and produced print ''strategy guides'', featuring ''in-depth walkthroughs'' for completing games and other information, such as character sheets and move charts. Prima was acquired by Asteri Holdings in March 2019, which will transition the business to provide strategy guides in online form only, alongside other gaming news. The company was acquired by GAMURS Group in January 2022. History Prima Publishing was a small publisher working out of a residential-style home office in Roseville, California when in 1990 its owner, Ben Dominitz, contracted with author Rusel DeMaria to create a video game strategy guide imprint, initially called "The Secrets of the Games". At the time, DeMaria was senior editor for '' PC Games'' magazine and on the staff of ''GamePro''. The initial contract called for five bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nenu Kariko , China
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Nenu may refer to: * ''Nenu'' (film), a 2004 Indian Telugu-language film * Nenu, Estonia * Northeast Normal University Northeast Normal University (; often abbreviated NENU or ) is one of the six national normal universities in the People's Republic of China, located in Changchun, Jilin province. The university was ranked number 37 in the comprehensive ranki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enthusiast Gaming
Enthusiast Gaming is a Canadian digital media company specializing in video game journalism. Founded in 2014 by entrepreneur Menashe Kestenbaum, the company owns the websites ''Destructoid'' and ''Escapist Magazine'', as well the gaming convention Enthusiast Gaming Live Expo (EGLX). The company went public on the TSX Venture Exchange in October 2018. In January 2020 the company's listing moved to the Toronto Stock Exchange. In April 2021, the company also began trading on the Nasdaq. Brands Enthusiast Gaming owns a number of websites and runs an annual convention in Toronto. Websites * ''Daily Esports'' (founded 2018) * ''DiabloII Net & Wiki'' (acquired 2018) * ''Gaming Street'' (founded 2019) * ''Nintendo Enthusiast'' (founded 2011, by Enthusiast Gaming founder) * ''Gamnesia'' (acquired 2018) * ''Planet Destiny'' (acquired 2019) * ''PlayStation Enthusiast'' (founded 2015) * Steel Media ( ''Pocket Gamer'') (acquired 2019) * The Sims Resource (acquired 2019) * ''Xbox Enthu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
