One would think that a game as old as Tetris would have been beaten plenty of times, but for decades, it was believed the game was unbeatable. That changed a few days ago when a 13-year-old boy named ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game — by ...

13-year-old Willis Gibson becomes the first player to officially "beat" the original Nintendo version of Tetris by triggering a kill screen on Level 157. The game glitches and crashes at this point, ...

For about as long as the Donkey Kong arcade game has been around, high-skill players have known about the kill screen on the first board of Level 22 that kills Jumpman (Mario) shortly after you start ...

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Stop and think about it: Have you ever seen someone actually beat the classic block-dropping game Tetris? Sure, you've seen people lose at Tetris, getting their blocks to the top of the screen. But ...

The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game—by breaking it.

Classic puzzle game Tetris has been around for over three decades, and in that time, plenty of people havereached its various endings, usually byclearing four rows of bricks at once like a digital ...