A teenager from Oklahoma appears to have become the first person to “beat” Tetris.
Willie Gibson posted a video on YouTube which shows the moment when the classic video game crashes as he reaches level 157.
The stunned 13-year-old gasps: “Oh my god … I’m going to pass out.”
“I can’t feel my fingers, I can’t feel my hands… I’m going to pass out,” Willie adds, as he tries to catch his breath. “I’m shaking so bad.”
It took the teenager, who goes by the name blue scuti on YouTube, just 38 minutes to cause the game to crash – which has never been done by a human.
Tetris, which sees players manoeuvre and arrange falling blocks into complete lines which then disappear, was created by Soviet engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984.
As a player progresses, the speed of the falling blocks increases.
