US teen becomes first human to beat Tetris

In this image taken from video, 13-year-old player named Willis Gibson reacts after playing a game of Tetris. Gibson, who in late December became the first player to officially ‘beat’ the original Nintendo version of the game. By breaking it, of course. Technically, Gibson – aka ‘blue scuti’ in the gaming world – made it to what gamers call a ‘kill screen’, a point where the Tetris code glitches, crashing the game. — Willis Gibson via AP

LOS ANGELES: A US teenager has beaten classic computer game Tetris, forcing it into a game-ending glitch in a feat previously achieved only by artificial intelligence.

Willis Gibson, 13, a competitive gamer known as “blue scuti”, became the first human to reach the “kill screen” of the Nintendo version of the puzzle game, as fellow players followed his progress online.