United States: Mr. Willis Gibson, an American teenager, has become the first person ever to beat the Tetris game. Mr. Gibson tasted victory by forcing the old classic Nintendo Entertainment System version of the video game into a kill screen.
A YouTube video streamed by Mr. Gibson under the streamer name Blue Scuti, showed him going Oh! My God, after beating Tetris. The human success came after the screen got frozen, fulfilling the wish expressed through the words ‘please crash.’
Mr. Gibson broke three World Records for overall score, levels reached and total lines reached. Only an Artificial Intelligence computer had defeated Tetris before Mr. Gibson turned victorious.
The game designed by Mr. Alexey Pajitnov, requires conjoining and combining seven types of falling blocks to form lines. The game increases speed with increasing levels and demands playing at a high speed to achieve success.
The developers never imagined such a scenario with the never-ending nature of the game that poses a major challenge for humans to achieve success in this game. Two contradicting factors of simplicity and difficulty play a major role in attracting gamers over generations to it.
The game was launched during the peak of the Cold War and then developed into a business by gaming entrepreneur Mr. Henk Rogers. Tetris remains a favourite game over the generations. According to the Tetris Company, Tetris is the best-selling video game of all time, selling 520 million copies.
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