A 13-year-old gamer from the USA played Tetris to the end: he is the first person to do it

A 13-year-old gamer from the United States, known on social networks as Blue Scuti, posted his achievement on YouTube on January 2 - he beat the original Tetris. No video gamer has ever done this, reports People.

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13-year-old American schoolboy Willis Gibson from Oklahoma became the first person in history to reach the winning level in the 1988 Tetris game for Nintendo. In a video he posted on YouTube, he reached the kill screen in the game, something only an AI bot had previously achieved.

Before this, gamers considered the most difficult transition from level 29 to 30, Gibson reached the 157th.

The gamer, using gaming techniques, managed to practically “break” Tetris in 38 minutes, when the blocks began to fall at high speed and the game froze, which for this version means victory, reports Rtvi.

“Oh my God, oh my God,” the player can be heard saying about 39 minutes into the game - as the tetrominoes fell at breakneck speed and seconds after he almost misplaced a block and missed his chance of winning the game.

But after the kill screen froze, the bespectacled gamer covered his mouth and began to breathe heavily, enjoying the moment that played out on the original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

Then he adjusted his glasses and added, to no one in particular: “I can’t feel my hands. My hands are tingling, I can’t feel my hands.”

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Blue Scuti appeared to be hoping to share his victory, in which he scored the highest score (999), with someone else, but no one else seemed to be in the room when he made history.

“My mom is at work,” he said.

His mother, however, eventually appeared in the video. Gamer showed her what he had achieved.

“See, I won,” he said. Mom high-fived her son.

Gibson has been playing Tetris since he was 11 years old, training from 3 to 5 hours daily. The student also said that he participated in the Tetris tournament simply to play with interesting opponents, and did not at all expect such a result.

The "Tetris" genius is partial to using a relatively new technique called "rolling," in which he holds the controller in such a way that he can press the D-pad up to 20 times per second. Previously, players preferred the “hyper tapping” method.

The victory was a little sad for the teenager. He dedicated the game to his father, Adam Gibson, who died on December 14, 2023.

Random sensation

All or almost all great things are created by accident. Then this accident (sooner or later) becomes a global property and changes the lives of many people.

Tetris is one such accident. A simple logic puzzle, written in 1985 by Alexei Pajitnov, an employee of the Computing Center at the USSR Academy of Sciences, for himself and his colleagues, in a short time gained worldwide fame, provoked a major scandal, a series of lawsuits and, ultimately, remained in history as the most popular computer puzzle. game of all times.

"Tetris" is a puzzle game based on the geometric shapes "tetrominoes" - a type of polyominoes consisting of four squares, reports Igromania.

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Tetris has become one of the most popular games of all time. The Game Boy, with which the game was sold, not least thanks to Tetris, sold more than 30 million copies in the first few years, and about 15 million cartridges with the game were sold.

Subsequently, the Game Boy became one of the most successful consoles in the history of electronic entertainment. Tetris itself brought Nintendo about $2-3 billion (if you take into account all the ports, versions and licensing fees). Over twenty years, the game (including official statistics, electronic devices and illegal sales) has sold a fantastic number of copies, estimated at about a quarter of a billion copies. Probably no other title in the world has been able to achieve such popularity. And even get closer. And it’s not a fact that it will ever succeed.

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