13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Beat Tetris on NES
Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people have reached its various endings, usually by clearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital demolitioner. That’s a challenge in and of itself, but now, someone has taken the concept of “beating Tetris” to the extreme by playing the NES game so hard it straight-up crashed, a phenomenon also known as the “kill screen.”
As reported by 404 Media, 13-year-old competitive Tetris player Blue Scuti became the first human to force the NES classic into a “kill screen,” the de facto “game over” for the legendary puzzler in which the game freezes and becomes unplayable—a feat previously only accomplished by AI. Blue Scuti, who emerged on the competitive Tetris scene in December 2021 and won first place in a handful tournaments over the course of 2023, posted a video to their YouTube channel on January 2 showing them achieving the monumental feat.
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In an interview with the Classic Tetris World Championships YouTube channel, streamer ITZsharky1 asked Blue Scuti about their motivation for crashing Tetris, other competitive goals, and the hardest part of breaking the puzzler. Blue Scuti said their greatest struggle was the nerves kicking in after about 30 minutes of play, particularly during some of the more challenging color schemes and levels. Their ultimate goal, however, is to remain at the top of the competitive Tetris scene while inspiring new players. Blue Scuti told ITZsharky1 their record-breaking was dedicated to their dad, who passed in December.
Levi Winslow is a staff writer at Kotaku.
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