It’s on our cell phones, on consoles, on computers. Tetris is officially the most adapted game in the world, being available on at least 65 different platforms (according to the Guinness record set in 2010). But despite its popularity, the game released by the Nintendo Entertainment System in June 1984 had never been “beaten”.
The unprecedented feat was achieved on December 21 by Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old North American from Oklahoma. on one video shared on Tuesday on the YouTube channel under the name Blue Scuti, the teenager shows the last 38 minutes of the game. “Oh My God!”, repeats the young man in the video. “I can’t feel my fingers.”
On the screen, I had just “cleared” one of the rows of blocks when the game crashed. The image marks level 18 (although this is due to a programming error, as the young man was already at level 157) and the score had frozen several minutes ago at “999999″ points (the maximum value that the marker can show).
In theory, a game of Tetris could last forever, explains the New York Times. For years it was thought that the game’s maximum level would be 29th, but a new generation of players has been testing the limits in recent years, unlocking new achievements.
Willis Gibson now holds one of those feats. For decades, players “beat” Tetris by pirating its programming. And only one Artificial Intelligence ‘bot’ had managed to reach the “kill screen” (at which point the game becomes impossible to continue playing due to the limitations of your programming), reached level 237 before freezing.
As far as we know, the teenager is the first human being to reach this point in the game in its original version. That is, using hardware similar to that on which the game was originally played at its launch.
The young man, who has participated in Tetris competitions since 2020 and is one of the best players in the USA, told the NYT that he was attracted to the game due to its “simplicity” and that he has no interest in modern games. In a typical week he dedicates around 20 hours to playing Tetris.
2024-01-05 14:57:01
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