Tetris player Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old from Oklahoma, is thought to have been the first human to advance so far into the original Nintendo version of the game.
British TV Host Tells Teenage Tetris Whiz To ‘Go Outside’
Normally, when you do something amazing like winning a tournament or beating an impossible game, you celebrate and get congratulated for your accomplishment. That was definitely true for 13-year-old Tetris master Willis “Blue Scuti” Gibson, who became the first known human to “beat” the classic NES game over the…
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Three Decades Later, Someone Has Finally Beaten Tetris On NES
Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have reached its various endings, usually by clearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital demolitioner. That’s a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept of “beating Tetris” to the…
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