An American teenager has become the first person to defeat the classic computer game Tetris, thereby causing it to fail – a feat previously only achieved by artificial intelligence.
Willis GibsonA 13-year-old gamer named “Blue Scuti” managed to get the “death screen” of the Nintendo version of the famous “puzzlewhile other players tracked their progress online.
“My God!” he cried. Willis Gibson repeatedly toward the end of a 40-plus-minute video he posted to YouTube this week.
“I can’t feel my fingers,” he said breathlessly.
This feeling was in contrast to the 35 minutes of Game earlier ones in which the young person from Oklahoma He remains almost motionless as he slides his fingers quickly over a control.
“No human has ever done this before,” said Vince Clemente, president of the Classic Tetris World Championship, according to the New York Times. “This is basically something that until a few years ago everyone thought was impossible.”
Idea of a Soviet software developer, Tetris It is a Game Simple but very addictive. Players must rotate and manipulate blocks that fall in different ways to fit them together and create solid lines within a box.
Impossible to reach
Once a row (or two, three, or four) is formed, it disappears, leaving more space – and time – to shuffle the next blocks.
The pieces fall faster than that player Go through the levels until you reach level 29, which was long considered the end of the level Game and point where the characters move too quickly for people to react.
For some time now, gamers have known that there is a point where the code fails and the Game stops, but only one other computer could access it.
All until December 21st, when Willis was at level 157 and placed a piece in place that made a bunch of blocks disappear and froze the whole thing Game.
The managing director of TetrisMaya Rogers, took part in the celebrations and told the specialized portal popsci.com that it was an appropriate achievement given the 40th anniversary of the video game in 2024.
“Congratulations to 'blue scuti' for this extraordinary achievement, an achievement that breaks all preconceived boundaries of this legend Game“he noted in a statement.