Tetris

With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones, and tablets. But until January 2024, nobody had ever been able to beat it.A teen from Oklahoma holds the Tetris title after he crashed the game on Level 157 and beat it. Beating it means the player moved the tiles too fast for the game to keep up…

A Tetris board. Credit: Brandenads/Wikimedia Commons With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for decades, and it has evolved to adapt to new technologies like game systems, phones and tablets. But until January 2024, nobody had ever been able to beat it.…

Growing up, I played a lot of puzzle games, but I didn’t have much love for them. This is because my mother loves puzzle games, and I probably didn’t like them much because it was one of the genres she could beat me at. However, the experiences I had playing Yoshi’s Cookie and Kirby’s Avalanche with her have left me with some nostalgia for the titles. I don’t actually play them much, but they feel good to my soul, at least. One game I used to play with her is different, however. It’s a puzzle game that I’m actually…

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The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game—by breaking it.Technically, Willis—aka “blue scuti” in the gaming world—made it to what gamers call a “kill screen,” a point where the Tetris code glitches, crashing the game. That might not sound like much of a victory to anyone thinking that only high scores count, but it’s a highly coveted achievement in the world of video games, where records…

Sky News presenter Jayne Secker has been criticised for her negative reaction to a 13-year-old boy setting an historic Tetris record. Earlier this week, Willis Gibson from Oklahoma became the first known person to “beat” the original NES version of the game, reaching such a high level that it caused it freeze. For the first time since Tetris was released in 1985, the game crashed at level 157, after Willis cleared 1,511 lines in just 38 minutes. You can watch him achieve the feat and his subsequent reaction below.…

Tetris always endures. The blocks keep coming and the game itself gets reinterpreted, twisted and remade for new generations. Now, a 13-year-old boy has become the first person to ‘beat’ the NES version of Tetris, 34 years after it was first released.Yes, ‘beat’ goes in quotes because there’s no way to complete the game. Instead, he played such a flawless game that he forced a kill screen, from an overflow error. While he’s the first person to do this, but not the first time it’s been achieved: An AI program called…

Tetris, one of the most popular and recognizable games of all time, has finally been "beaten." The person to do it more than 30 years after the game's release? 13-year-old Willis Gibson from Oklahoma.Gibson uploaded a video of his achievement to YouTube, and it's quite a sight to behold. He is demonstrably overwhelmed with excitement and astonishment. He exclaims, "Oh my god," before saying, "I can't feel my fingers."As you can see in the video, Willis reaches level 157 (the video labels it as level 18,…

Tetris is one of the most popular and enduring video games of all time, with versions on just about every console, computer and gadget. Many of these iterations have endings baked into story modes and the like, but the original endless mode was considered unbeatable by humans, until now. A 13-year-old boy has become the first person to ‘beat’ the NES version of Tetris, 34 years after it originally released back in 1989, as announced by YouTuber aGameScout.The reason we put ‘beat’ in quotes is due to the nature of the…

Blue Scuti The NES version of Tetris has been around for over 34 years, but a human has just completed it for the first time. Tetris on NES does not have a traditional ending; beating this game means reaching a “kill screen” on level 157 that causes the game to crash. The time and physical skill required to accomplish this on actual hardware seemed near-impossible for a long time, so only artificial intelligence playing the game perfectly could reach this point. According to 404 Media, a new NES controller technique…