Teen becomes first human to 'beat' Tetris
A 13-year-old American is the first person to ever beat Tetris, forcing the more than three-decade-old classic Nintendo video game into a "kill screen." Willis Gibson, who goes by the streamer name Blue Scuti, said "Please crash" as he arranged the puzzle pieces cascading down the screen and moments later got his wish when the game froze, leading him to repeatedly exclaim "Oh my God!" in a video uploaded to YouTube. Gibson broke world records for the overall score, level achieved and total numbers of lines, according to 404 Media. "This is unbelievable," Vince Clemente, CEO of Classic Tetris World Championship, said. "Developers didn't think anyone would ever make it that far and now the game has officially been beaten by a human being." Previously, only an artificial intelligence computer program had beaten Tetris, Clemente said. First released in 1984, Tetris was created by Alexey Pajitnov at the Moscow Academy of Science during the height of the Cold War, and developed as a business by gaming entrepreneur Henk Rogers. It is the best selling video game of all time with 520 million copies sold, according to The Tetris Company. (Reuters)