13-Year-Old Becomes First Person to Ever Beat Tetris

A 13-year-old competitive player known as Blue Scuti became the first known human to beat the original NES version of Tetris by forcing it into a kill screen. The feat took about 38 minutes, as shown in a video he posted to YouTube, and broke world records for overall score, level achieved, and total lines in the 34-year-old game. He uses the "rolling" controller technique, which the article says surpassed "hyper tapping" as the fastest way to play and allows at least 20 D-pad presses per second. Blue Scuti dedicated the game to his father, Adam Gibson, who died in December.