US teenager (13) becomes first player to beat Tetris

Willis Gibson (13) advanced so far in Tetris that the game froze. Photograph: David Macdonald via The New York TimesA 13-year-old American is the first person to beat Tetris, forcing the more than three-decade-old classic Nintendo video game into a “kill screen”. “I can’t feel my fingers.”READ MOREWillis had just become the first person to advance so far in the original Nintendo version of the puzzle game Tetris that the game froze, achieving a feat previously credited only to artificial intelligence. Released on the original Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989, Tetris is among the most enduring and celebrated video games ever. Willis got to Level 157, reaching Tetris’s “kill screen,” the point where a video game becomes unplayable because of limitations in its coding.