Wow! 13-year-old American Willis Gibson final week livestreamed himself lastly beating the 1990 Nintendo Leisure System traditional Tetris by reaching the killscreen at degree 157, after which level the sport has been formally accomplished in accordance with Tetris world championship guidelines. It took the Tetris speedrunning neighborhood 34 lengthy years to achieve this level.
Willis performed for 38 minutes utilizing the rolling fingers approach to achieve degree 157, and as an alternative of the sport persevering with infinite ranges till the participant fails, he crashed the sport to beat it absolutely! Upon breaking the world file he mentioned: “Oh oh oh, oh my god! I’m going to go 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 Document Roundup:
- [00:00] — Blue Scuti set a brand new Tetris world file, reaching degree 157, triggering a recreation crash, a major milestone within the recreation’s historical past.
- [00:53] — NES Tetris initially had a barrier at degree 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 increased ranges. EricICX shattered data, reaching degree 95 in 2021.
- [04:10] — The sport’s glitched colour palettes began inflicting visibility points at increased ranges, posing a brand new problem for gamers making an attempt to set data.
- [05:30] — EricICX achieved glitched colours on the NTSC model however confronted challenges attributable to visibility and endurance. The file recreation lasted practically 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 degree 157.
- [11:52] — Blue Scuti’s achievement marked a turning level, displaying that NES Tetris, as soon as thought of unbeatable, may very well be conquered by a talented participant. The neighborhood 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 conjures up the neighborhood.
- [15:12] — A possible final achievement in NES Tetris includes reaching degree 255, the final degree that may be saved within the recreation’s reminiscence, providing a singular problem and reset again to degree 0.
Watch the complete playthrough subsequent. With rolling gamers theoretically enjoying perpetually or so long as the sport can deal with, this video options CTWC 2023 semi-finalist 13 yr outdated Blue Scuti doing one thing that has by no means been carried out earlier than… He LITERALLY BREAKS AND DEFEATS THE GAME!
Timeline of the entire VOD:
- [00:00] — Intro
- [00:30] — Degree 19
- [04:57] — Degree 20-28
- [07:42] — Degree 29-49
- [12:46] — Degree 50-69
- [17:37] — Degree 70-89
- [22:28] — Degree 90-119
- [29:45] — Degree 120-137
- [34:08] — Colours Reached: Degree 138-145
- [36:06] — Degree 146-148
- [36:49] — Degree 149-153
- [38:03] — Degree 154-155
- [38:21] — Degree 156-157
- [43:20] — Interview
Nonetheless, 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 together with his loss in a optimistic method.
Willis Gibson summed up his achievement in a post-interview with these closing phrases: “In case you set your thoughts to one thing and you place work into it, most certainly you’re going to get it in the event you attempt onerous sufficient.” What a legend, and at solely 13 years outdated the Tetris neighborhood has obtained some nice illustration right here. 🙂
What’s the best degree you ever reached with Tetris?
