A 13 year old in Oklahoma has become the first human to beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris. He defeaed level after level until he reached the “kill screen” – the moment when the Tetris systemI taps out in exhaustion, stopping play because its designers never wrote code to advance further.
It’s a reminder that despite stereotypes that gamers are lazy, they’re anything but mindless.
https://theconversation.com/from-besting-tetris-ai-to-epic-speedruns-inside-gamings-most-thrilling-feats-220620
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