American Teenager Makes History as First Human to Win Classic Tetris Game, Beating AI Record

OKLAHOMA CITY, KOMPAS.com – An American teenager named Willis Gibson (13), known as “blue scuti” in the gamer world, became the first human to win the classic game Tetris.

He became the first person to reach the kill screen of Nintendo’s version of the Tetris game. Previously, this achievement could only be achieved by AI (artificial intelligence).

“Oh Lord!” Willis repeatedly screams toward the end of a more than 40-minute Tetris video he uploaded to YouTube this week.

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“I can’t feel my fingers,” he added breathlessly, quoted by the AFP news agency on Thursday (4/1/2024).

This was different from the previous 35 minutes when the teenager from Oklahoma sat motionless while running his fingers quickly over the controller.

“This has never been done by humans before,” said Classic Tetris World Championship president Vince Clemente, quoted by The New York Times.

“A few years ago, this was something everyone thought was impossible,” he added.

Tetris was created by Soviet software engineers. This game is simple but can be very addictive because players have to rotate and move falling blocks of various shapes so that they fit together and create a straight line.

Once a straight line (with two, three, or four blocks) is formed, it disappears, leaving more space and time for the next blocks to fill.

The blocks fall faster as the player progresses through certain levels. Level 29 was long believed to be the end of the game because the blocks move too fast for human reaction.

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However, in recent years players have found ways to move forward, surpassing the capabilities of this ancient game.

Some competitive players have found there are times when the game glitches and freezes, but only computers can achieve this.

Until finally on December 21, 2023 Willis reached Level 157, dropped a block which caused one line to disappear, then the game stopped.

His fellow players immediately joined in the fun. Classic Tetris World Champion fractal161–aka Justin Yu–yelled, “He did it, he did it!” on livestream.

Tetris chief executive Maya Rogers took part in the celebrations and told popsci.com it was a fitting achievement ahead of the game’s 40th anniversary in 2024.

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2024-01-04 10:28:00
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