13 year old boy managed to beat Tetris, 35 years after its launch. An “impossible” feat that eventually managed to drive the game itself insane and cause it to crash.

Tetris is one of the legendary titles in video game history. Created by Alekséi Pázhitnov while working at the Soviet Academy of Sciences, it is a puzzle (and skill) game where the player must place different geometric shapes (a tetromino of four identical squares) that fall randomly to complete horizontal lines. and move on. There are several versions of the game, although the basic controls are the same.

The number of platforms it was released for is uncountable and in some console models, such as the Game Boy, was the key to its success. He also has his own movies. The game is included in all the best video games and best sellers of all time lists and is also the largest fully functional game in the world because it was played on the side of several buildings.

How to beat Tetris?

A few years ago it was assumed Tetris was a game that had no end. It doesn’t have a story or the type of progression that we might consider standard, other than an increase in the rate at which pieces fall and scores achieved where one player “beats” another. At one point the ending was considered to be level 29 when the so-called ‘True Kill screen’ was reached.

To understand this, write that the more you play Tetris, the faster the blocks will fall, which will raise the stake because you will be forced think in split seconds about where each piece should fall and also improve handling of the controller to rotate it. Speed ​​is capped at level 29, making it nearly impossible to move the tetromino. So the community believed that this was the “end” of the game, when it really wasn’t.

In 2011, level 30 was crossed, and in 2018, levels 31, 35 and 38 were reached. In 2021, the player used a new button mashing strategy that was much faster than the previous ones and this allowed him to reach level 40 More Recently, another of the specialized players got on level 146 and there he encountered a new challenge: a bug that caused the color palette to become opaque and difficult to read, leaving players stumped as they tried to climb to even higher heights.

It was thought to be the end, but it wasn’t. Now a 13-year-old boy has overcome it, and it appears that the end exists and has been achieved when Tetris just fails. Not the best ending for a legendary game, but it took 35 years to come.