TITLE
34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”
AUTHOR
Kyle Orland
PUBLICATION
Ars Technica
YEAR
2024
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
For decades after its 1989 release, each of the hundreds of millions of standard NES Tetris games ended the same way: A block reaches the top of the screen and triggers a “game over” message. That 34-year streak was finally broken on December 21, 2023, when 13-year-old phenom BlueScuti became the first human to reach the game’s “kill screen” after a 40-minute, 1,511-line performance, crashing the game by reaching its functional limits.
GAMES MENTIONED
Tetris
TOPICS MENTIONED
Esports