In the news that we all expected to greet us as we crossed the threshold into 2024, the classic NES version of Tetris has finally been ‘beaten’ for the first time by a very skilled 13-year-old.
No we’re not kidding, a game that came out back in 1989 and seemingly hadn’t been defeated by a single person in verifiable fashion since that point was finally forced into submission during the dying days of 2023. That’s fairly literal submission too, given that victory was secured by making it crash in climactic fashion.
The grizzled gaming veteran who managed to reach its “True Killscreen”, which according to one ResetEra user “was thought to be unreachable for decades” is streamer and Tetris expert Blue Scuti. They somehow managed to become the first player in recorded history to reach level 157 in the game, which is the point at which this mythical crash occurs, seemingly as the game tries to compute the idea of someone devoting that much time and energy to Tetris.