What is Tetris?
Tetris is a fun video game made by a Russian scientist named Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It became really popular and one of the best and most known video games for many years. One can play it on almost every gaming system. In Tetris, the goal is to get as many points as possible by removing horizontal lines of blocks.
Players must rotate, move, and drop the falling Tetriminos inside the playing field. When the lines are full of blocks, and there's no empty space, they disappear. The game gets harder as players clear lines, and the Tetriminos fall faster. The game ends when the blocks reach the top of the playing field.
Many versions of the game have been created. Someone recently beat Tetris for the first time.
Who has beaten the game?
A 13-year-old US gamer named Willis Gibson, also known as Blue Scuti, has beaten Tetris, forcing the game into a game-ending glitch. This was previously done only by artificial intelligence (AI).
He made it to the "kill screen" on the Nintendo version of the game. A kill screen is one that appears when a player reaches a level that causes the game to crash or stop. When the game ended, his score read 999999.
How long did it take for the teenager to beat the game?
It took Willis Gibson about 38 minutes to beat Tetris. Towards the end of his game, his screen crashed, and the blocks stopped falling as he beat the game.
He started playing Tetris when he was 11 and even participated in gaming competitions. He says he not only beat the game but also broke the overall score and three other Tetris world records. Other gamers are happy about Gibson’s fantastic achievement.
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