A 13-year-old in Oklahoma may have just become the 1st person to ever beat Tetris

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Willis Gibson at the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship David “aGameScout” McDonald

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In certain video games, usually the game beats the player and not the other way around. But last month, 13-year-old Willis Gibson of Oklahoma became the first person believed to ever beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris.

Thirty-four years after Tetris was first released, Gibson ended up advancing so far that the game itself could not keep up with him. At level 157, he reached the notorious

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