US Teen Becomes First Human To Beat Tetris

Simple, but highly addictive, Tetris has been part of the cultural landscape for decades, and now a US teen has beaten it, playing until the code freezes (Credit: AFP)

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.