Gamers have previously ‘beat’ Tetris but only by hacking into game’s software

A thirteen-year-old boy from Oklahoma could be the first ever human to beat Nintendo’s Tetris, reaching the classic video game’s “kill screen” – a feat that was previously only achieved by artificial intelligence.

Willis Gibson passed so many levels of Tetris that the game’s code couldn’t keep up and it crashed, with his score finally reading “999999”.

The boy, who goes by the handle “Blue Scuti” on YouTube, u