Tetris video game defeated: Here’s how a 13-year-old did the unthinkable

A teenager from Oklahoma has rocked the video game world by beating the falling-block Tetris game and became the first player to officially beat the original Nintendo version by breaking it at level 157.

Thirteen-year-old Willis Gibson, who hails from Oklahoma, US, pushed the game to its limits, a point where the Tetris code glitches, thus crashing the game. Willis triggered a kill screen on level 157, which the gaming world takes as a victory over the game—something along the lines of pushing the software past its limits.