2024-01-04 04:39:09
Screenshot of Willis Gibson playing “Tetris.” AP
It’s an event in the world of video games. After having obsessed entire generations of players for forty years, the game Tetris finally found someone stronger than him: a 13-year-old American teenager.
On December 21, 2023, Willis Gibson became the first human to reach the end of this great Nintendo classic, where the player must fit together blocks that fall more and more quickly, to form complete lines and make them disappear. The feat had until now only been accomplished by artificial intelligence.
In principle, this highly addictive puzzle game, developed by a Soviet engineer, has no real end: when the machine can no longer keep up, the screen suddenly freezes. This is what happened to the teenager, aka « Blue Scuti,” when he reached level 157, following thirty-eight minutes of effort.
” Oh my God “exclaims the young man when the game stops, in a video of his game published on YouTube. “I can’t feel my fingers anymore”he breathes, overwhelmed by emotion.
“This has never been done by a human beforestressed to the New York Times the president of the world championship TetrisVince Clemente. This is something that everyone thought was impossible until a few years ago. »
A new technique for using the controller
For a long time, level 29 was considered the limit of Tetris, when the game becomes so fast that humans can no longer react quickly enough. But, in recent years, a new generation of players has pushed the boundaries of what is possible by adopting the “rolling” technique, which reinvents the way of using the NES console controller: it allows you to use all the fingers rather than just one or two and greatly increase the frequency of pressures.
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Originally from Oklahoma, Willis Gibson used this process to establish his record, a few months before the 40th anniversary of the game, released in June 1984. A feat widely praised within the gaming community.
The general director of TetrisMaya Rogers, also congratulated the young player. “Congratulations to “Blue Scuti” for this extraordinary achievement, which defies all the preconceived limits of this legendary game”she commented in a press release sent to the site Popsci.com.
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