The video gameTetrishas been completed by a human for the first time since its release . Willis “ blue scuti ” Gibson beat the game during a livestream , touch off the " true kill screen " on level 157 .
Tetrishas been around for a while , so you might have assumed it would be concluded by now . After all , it ’s not like agameofZeldaorSkyrimwhere you’re able to complete all the side quests and put off the main quest until long after you ’ve mislay all interest in completing the main game .
For years , people believed that level 29 – where the speed maxes out – was the final level of the plot . However , after decades of experimenting with different method , consecrated gamers were able to bunk it . Despite progress through the level , nobody made it to an close projection screen . rather , as the stratum fit on , they start to glitch , turn the bricks unusual colors .
In 2021 , programmer Greg Cannon created StackRabbit , aTetris - flirt contrived intelligence ( AI ) programme that was able to go even further through the glitchy levels . The AI went past level 235 ( which lasted for800 linesinstead of around 10 ) to tear down 237 , at which point the game stop functioning , freeze entirely .
In lieu of a big concealment saying " well done " or a cut scenery designate the brick going back home to their families , this has become known to gamers as the straight ending of the game , when it can no longer serve .
" The game ’s codification starts to become really inefficient on very high-pitched levels , because no one was expected to get this far , and eventually a glitch bechance where the game switching from reading command from the computer code to reading the RAM as if it were computer code , " YouTuber aGameScoutexplains . " If the resulting garble generates a stop control , it completely breaks the game , top to it being call the reliable killscreen . "
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As explained byaGameScout , theTetriscommunity start researching the kill screen error , let on that it could be trigger earlier than degree 237 by clearing a single descent , at a far more achievable level 155 . This was n’t too far above tier that the world record - holder were achieving , but it still look at some time before , in previous December 2023 , Gibson was capable to toil his way of life through the glitched levels all the way to level 155 . However , he lose his chance to try and trigger the error , and had to carry on on to raze 157 for the next chance . Here he achieved the kill screen , becoming the first human to completeTetris .
" When I start playing this game I never bear to ever crash the game , or outsmart it , " Gibson said on hisYouTube channel , tally " this streak was also the Overall Score , Level , Lines , and 19 Score existence record book . "
[ H / T : aGameScout ]
