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It seems a 13-year-old from Oklahoma finally almost did Impossible: He beat Tetris.
Willis Gibson is believed to be the first human gamer to reach level 157 of the classic video game.
“I was about to leave, I couldn't feel my fingers,” Gibson said after his feat, the game crumbling. Video Posted on YouTube on Tuesday.
“When I started playing this game, I never expected to beat the game or beat it,” Gibson wrote in the video's description.
Gibson's 38-minute viral video of the game, released under his “Blue Scooty” screen name, is the latest spike in nostalgia for the addictive and enduring game. Developed by Soviet engineer Popularized in 1984 with the Nintendo Entertainment System.
To date, more than 200 official variants of Tetris have been released on at least 70 systems, a World record According to Guinness World Records. The Electronic Arts-developed mobile version released in 2006 has sold over 100 million copies, making it the third best-selling video game of all time. Hewlett Packard Report Last year.
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Screenshot of Willis Gibson's record-breaking Tetris game livestream
The creator has said that he was immediately hooked after creating the game.
“I couldn't stop playing this prototype version because it was so addicting to put the shapes together,” Alexey Pazhitnov told CNN in 2019.
After its creation, Tetris quickly spread and established its power, so much so that the story of its Cold War-era beginnings became a turning point. Movie to Apple TV+ in March.
“It connects with us on a primitive level,” says Victor Lucas, the gaming expert behind the TV series Electric Playground. “It transcends video games like checkers or chess very clearly. It's one of those juggernaut theatrical experiences that any human being can instantly understand and be eternally consumed by.”
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The game is simple: manipulate and match falling blocks of different shapes to form solid rows. As the level rises, the blocks fall faster.
Other video games today offer storylines, hundreds of characters, cinematic visuals and even more Live Travis Scott concertsSome experts say that the simplicity of Tetris has kept it popular for decades.
Although Tetris remains the same throughout Over the decades, the way it plays has evolved. Until 2011, players believed that level 29 was the only viable level because that level had the fastest pace of the game.
Video game expert and consultant Scott Steinberg told CNN, “It's incredibly well-designed and has captivated generations of gamers. It constantly presents new challenges that even the masters find difficult to overcome.”
The staying power of Tetris derives from the simplicity and difficulty of the game.
Once that level 29 barrier was broken, players began reaching higher and higher levels with techniques including “hypertapping” and “rolling” in tournaments like the Classic Tetris World Championship.
Gibson finished third at the 2023 World Championships. Although Gibson is a record-breaking human gamer, the Tetris-playing AI came in at 236th in 2021 by manipulating game parameters.
Few video games “even cost as much to make and look as good as many movies coming out of Hollywood, but there's still something to be said for a game that's simple, elegant, incredibly accessible, and can be enjoyed by people of any age. background,” Scott Steinberg told CNN. “Sometimes simple is best, and the best games really do stand the test of time.”
