US teen Willis Gibson becomes first human player to beat ‘unbeatable’ Tetris

A US teenager has beaten classic computer game Tetris, forcing it into a game-ending glitch in a feat previously achieved only by artificial intelligence.

Willis Gibson, 13, a competitive gamer known as “blue scuti”, became the first human to reach the “kill screen” of the Nintendo version of the puzzle game, as fellow players followed his progress online.

“Oh my God!” Willis screams repeatedly towards the end of a more than 40-minute video he uploaded to YouTube this week.

“I can’t feel my fingers,” he adds breathlessly.

The emotion stands in stark contrast to the preceeding 35 minutes of gameplay in which Willis, from Oklahoma, sits mostly motionless while rapidly scrolling his fingers across a controller.