American Teenager Beats Tetris Game After 40 Years – A Historic Feat

By Le Figaro with AFP

Published 13 minutes ago, Updated now

The video game Tetris, created in June 1984 by Alexey Pajitnov, a young researcher at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Adobe Stock

While the famous video game will celebrate its 40th anniversary next June, Willis Gibson, 13, managed to beat the Tetris game after 38 minutes of effort and 157 levels.

After obsessing generations of gamers for 40 years, the video game Tetris was finally beaten by an American teenager, a feat previously only accomplished by artificial intelligence.

At 13, Willis Gibson became the first human to reach the end of this great Nintendo classic, where the player must fit together blocks that fall more and more quickly, to form complete lines and make them disappear. This highly addictive puzzle game, developed by a Soviet engineer, doesn’t really have an end: when the machine can no longer keep up, the screen suddenly freezes. This is what happened to the teenager, aka “Blue Shields“, when he reached level 157, after 38 minutes of effort.

An incredible feat

«Oh my God», Exclaims the young man when the game stops, in a video of his game published on Youtube. “I can’t feel my fingers anymore», he breathes, overwhelmed by emotion. “This has never been done by a human before», Underlined to the New York Times the president of the Tetris world championship, Vince Clemente. “This is something that everyone thought was impossible until a few years ago.» For a long time, level 29 was considered the limit of Tetris, when the game becomes so fast that humans can no longer react quickly enough.

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But in recent years, a new generation of players has pushed the boundaries of what is possible by adopting the technique of “rolling», which reinvents the way of using the NES console controller: it allows you to use all the fingers rather than just one or two and to drastically increase the frequency of presses. Originally from Oklahoma, Willis Gibson used this process to establish his record, a few months before the 40th anniversary of the game, released in June 1984.

A feat widely praised within the community of “gamers“. The general director of Tetris, Maya Rogers, also congratulated the young player. “Congratulations to “Blue Scuti” for this extraordinary feat, which defies all the preconceived limits of this legendary game“, she commented in a press release sent to the site popsci.com.

2024-01-04 08:08:09
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