Willis Gibson got a kill screen on a game that was made 21 years before him.
You can find Tetris on almost every console, computer, and gadget. It’s one of the most famous and long-lasting video games of all time. Many of these versions have ends built into story modes and other modes like that, but until now, people thought they couldn’t beat the original endless mode. The 13-year-old boy is the first person to “beat” the NES version of Tetris, 34 years after it came out. This was reported by YouTuber aGameScout.
We put the word “beat” in quotes because of how the accomplishment really is. Willis Gibson, a teen from Oklahoma who goes by the YouTube name Blue Scuti, didn’t get to an official finish because there isn’t one. Instead, he played the game so well for so long that the game crashed because of a kill screen. Overflow errors happen when you speed up the game too much for the software to keep up. This is what usually leads to these kill screens.
Following 38 minutes of play, the teen achieved this goal and recorded the moment on video. He’s the first person, but not the first thing, to do this. In 2021, an AI program named StackRabbit made the NES game Tetris have a kill screen. That’s one for the people!
To do this, a gameplay style called “rolling” was added. With this style, players slide their fingers along the bottom of a NES controller and then use the controller’s motion to roll it into their other hand. You can press the D-pad up to 20 times per second if you do it right. A few years ago, this method changed the way professional Tetris was played. Before this, the 13-year-old had already broken the previous records for the highest score, the highest level reached, and the most lines cleared by rolling.
Gibson, who goes by the name Blue Scudi, told another YouTuber that he is honoring the achievement to his late father, who died in December. During the game, he said things got so crazy that he couldn’t feel his fingers later.
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In old-school games, getting to the magical kill screen is kind of like a rite of passage. If you saw the movie King of Kong, which is about the video game Donkey Kong, you know how tough it can be to get the bragging rights. People have killed themselves in Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Duck Hunt, and many other games.
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