A 13-year-old gamer is believed to be the first person to beat Tetris, 40 years after its invention.
“Oh my god… I’m going to faint!” Willis Gibson gasped on a December 21 livestream when he realized he had reached level 157, crashing the classic game that for years many thought only reached level 29.
“I can’t feel my fingers,” the astonished Oklahoma teenager muttered as he slumped in his chair and seemed to almost hyperventilate at his unexpected achievement.
“When I started playing this game, I never expected the game to crash or overrun,” wrote Gibson, who started playing the classic game when he was 11, according to Popular Science.
It took the young teenager less than 38 minutes to complete the game, after decades of other players attempting the same thing.
The Tetris Company confirmed that the young player was the first known player to reach the “monumental” level of the game that was developed in the Soviet Union in 1984 and reached the American market four years later.
Willis Gibson was left stunned when he appeared to beat Tetris during a live broadcast last month. YouTube / Blue Scuti The teenager is believed to be the first person to get a “death screen” in the game. YouTube / Blue Shield
“As we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tetris this year, moments like these really show the passion and dedication of Tetris enthusiasts,” Tetris CEO Maya Rogers told Popular Science of Gibson’s achievement.
“Congratulations to ‘blue scuti’ for achieving this extraordinary achievement, a feat that defies all preconceived limits of this legendary game,” he added, using Gibson’s YouTube username.
“This monumental achievement not only breaks new ground in the realm of Tetris but also ignites our anticipation for its future. Here’s to the incredible journey ahead!
Willis Gibson has been playing Tetris since he was 11 years old. Liquipedia / aGameScout Gibson reached level 157 of the game before the system appeared to crash. YouTube / Blue Shield
In Tetris, players arrange falling blocks into horizontal lines as they fall at increasing speeds.
For most of the game’s history, even the most dedicated players believed that level 29 was the highest possible goal, Popular Science noted.
At that level, the falling blocks started moving so fast that it became too difficult to keep moving the pieces from side to side with the controller.
However, in 2010, American player Thor Aackerlund reached level 30 using a new method known as “hypertapping,” which helps others surpass new limits.
However, as of late December 2023, only artificial intelligence had achieved a true “death screen,” or the result of a player reaching a level in the game that causes them to crash, the BBC said.
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