The legendary arcade game, Tetris, has finally been beaten by a human, with 13-year-old Oklahoma kid, Willis Gibson, completing the feat.
Gibson, whose YouTube moniker is Blue Scuti, posted the video of the run to his channel, which saw him reach level 157 before the game entered its 'kill screen' and crashed.
Boy In Disbelief After Completing Tetris
"I'm going to pass out, I can't feel my fingers" he said upon completion, in a state of euphoria and disbelief.
For context, before 2010 it was believed that level 29 was the furthest one could go, but with new techniques developed, humans began to catch up with the bots and AI.
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Gaming history, 35 years in the making:
Tetris has sold over 520M units since 1989.
But no human has ever beat it.
Until now...
This 13-year-old just became the 1st person to ever beat the game — a feat once believed to be impossible. pic.twitter.com/QHkE3nEjfT
— Rally (@OnRallyRd) January 3, 2024
🎮📰Sky News's Jayne Secker breaks script to tell 13yo who reached a WR Lvl. 157 in NES #Tetris
"Beating Tetris is not a life goal. Go outside and get some fresh air"
This priggish, ignorant belittlement of Willis Gibson's achievement shows gaming stigma is sadly alive & well pic.twitter.com/KRix9g6A32
— Nintendo South Wales (@Nintendo_SW) January 4, 2024
"It's never been done by a human before," Classic Tetris World Championship president Vince Clemente said to The New York Times.
"It's basically something that everyone thought was impossible until a couple of years ago."
Tetris was invented in 1984 by Soviet engineer Alexey Pajitnov, and saw it rise in popularity after its introduction to consoles such as the NES and Game Boy.
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