Nintendo Traditional Tetris Lastly Overwhelmed After 34 Years by 13-12 months-Outdated

Wow! 13-year-old American Willis Gibson final week livestreamed himself lastly beating the 1990 Nintendo Leisure System basic Tetris by reaching the killscreen at stage 157, after which level the sport has been formally accomplished in accordance with Tetris world championship guidelines. It took the Tetris speedrunning group 34 lengthy years to achieve this level.

Willis performed for 38 minutes utilizing the rolling fingers approach to achieve stage 157, and as an alternative of the sport persevering with infinite ranges till the participant fails, he crashed the sport to beat it totally! Upon breaking the world file he mentioned: “Oh oh oh, oh my god! I’m going to move out, I can’t really feel my fingers.”

Watch aGameScout‘s spectacular Mini Documentary of Willis AKA Blue Scuti lastly beating Tetris.

Timeline for the Tetris World Report Roundup:

• [00:00] — Blue Scuti set a brand new Tetris world file, reaching stage 157, triggering a recreation crash, a big milestone within the recreation’s historical past.
• [00:53] — NES Tetris initially had a barrier at stage 29, known as the “killscreen,” however gamers like Thor Aackerlund broke it with methods like hypertapping.
• [02:46] — The introduction of the rolling approach in 2020 revolutionized the sport, enabling gamers to achieve larger ranges. EricICX shattered information, reaching stage 95 in 2021.
• [04:10] — The sport’s glitched colour palettes began inflicting visibility points at larger ranges, posing a brand new problem for gamers making an attempt to set information.
• [05:30] — EricICX achieved glitched colours on the NTSC model however confronted challenges as a consequence of visibility and endurance. The file recreation lasted almost 40 minutes.
• [08:22] — Blue Scuti emerged as a rising participant, difficult the file. After a number of makes an attempt, he turned the primary to beat the glitched colours and attain stage 157.
• [11:52] — Blue Scuti’s achievement marked a turning level, exhibiting that NES Tetris, as soon as thought-about unbeatable, could possibly be conquered by a talented participant. The group skilled a renaissance in file chasing.
• [12:50] — After the sport crash, gamers ponder new challenges, together with environment friendly recreation crashes and avoiding the crash altogether. Blue Scuti’s success evokes the group.
• [15:12] — A possible final achievement in NES Tetris entails reaching stage 255, the final stage that may be saved within the recreation’s reminiscence, providing a novel problem and reset again to stage 0.

Watch the complete playthrough subsequent. With rolling gamers theoretically enjoying endlessly or so long as the sport can deal with, this video options CTWC 2023 semi-finalist 13 yr previous Blue Scuti doing one thing that has by no means been performed earlier than… He LITERALLY BREAKS AND DEFEATS THE GAME!

Timeline of the whole VOD:

• [00:00] — Intro
• [00:30] — Stage 19
• [04:57] — Stage 20-28
• [07:42] — Stage 29-49
• [12:46] — Stage 50-69
• [17:37] — Stage 70-89
• [22:28] — Stage 90-119
• [29:45] — Stage 120-137
• [34:08] — Colours Reached: Stage 138-145
• [36:06] — Stage 146-148
• [36:49] — Stage 149-153
• [38:03] — Stage 154-155
• [38:21] — Stage 156-157
• [43:20] — Interview

Nevertheless, the world file was a bittersweet victory for Willis, who devoted the sport to his father, Adam Gibson, who died simply 12 days earlier than his December 26, 2023 win. Wonderful that (presumably) Tetris helped him cope along with his loss in a constructive method.

Willis Gibson summed up his achievement in a post-interview with these last phrases: “In the event you set your thoughts to one thing and you place work into it, almost definitely you’ll get it for those who attempt laborious sufficient.” What a legend, and at solely 13 years previous the Tetris group has obtained some nice illustration right here. 🙂

What’s the very best stage you ever reached with Tetris?