13-Year-Old Becomes First Human to Reach Original Tetris Game's Infamous Kill Screen
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13-year-old Willis Gibson recently became the first person to "beat" the original Nintendo Tetris by reaching the game's "kill screen" at level 157.
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Reaching the "kill screen" means advancing so far that the game can't keep up due to limitations in its original programming.
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Before Gibson, only artificial intelligence had been attributed with reaching the Tetris kill screen.
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Gibson accomplished this feat in under 39 minutes, with an actual score of 6.8 million points.
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Tetris was created by Alexey Pajitnov in 1985 and released on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989, selling over 520 million units total.