American Teenager Becomes First Human to Beat Video Game Tetris

2024-01-06 09:57:00来源：网络

American Teenager Becomes First Human to Beat Video Game Tetris

美国少年成为首位打败电子游戏《俄罗斯方块》的人

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　　By Bryan Lynn

　　04 January 2024

　　A 13-year-old American boy has become the first person ever to beat the popular video game Tetris.

　　The young gamer, Willis Gibson, completed 157 levels of Tetris before the game technically surrendered.

　　Gamers call this kind of ending a "kill screen." The Tetris program had no more plays to make and so it crashed, freezing the video game.

　　Gibson lives in the Midwestern state of Oklahoma and goes by the gaming name "Blue Scuti." He can be heard repeatedly shouting "Oh my God" on a video recording as he beat the game.

　　"I can't feel my fingers," Gibson says in the video.

　　Gaming experts had long considered Tetris unbeatable. This is partly because the video game does not have a clear ending point.

　　Tetris came out in 1984 and quickly became a worldwide favorite. Its creator, Alexey Pajitnov, was a computer programs engineer at the Russian Academy of Sciences in the former Soviet Union.

　　During the game, players move and join together seven different shapes of falling blocks. The goal is for players to fit the blocks together to form solid lines inside a box. The blocks fall faster as players progress through higher levels of the game.

　　On December 21, Gibson reached level 157 and dropped a final piece into place. This caused a single line of blocks to disappear and the game to enter a permanent freeze.

　　"This is unbelievable," Vince Clemente, CEO of Classic Tetris World Championship, told Reuters news agency. "Developers didn't think anyone would ever make it that far and now the game has officially been beaten by a human being."

　　For some time, gamers have known Tetris would eventually reach an ending point and technically shut down. But in the past, only a computer program could force such a game-ending shut-down.

　　Other fans of the game were quick to share Gibson's excitement. Classic Tetris World Champion Justin Yu – who goes by the name fractal161 – declared in his own video, "He did it, he did it!"

　　Tetris chief executive Maya Rogers joined in the celebration. She said in a statement it was fitting Gibson had beat the game just ahead of 2024, when Tetris was entering its 40th anniversary.

　　"Congratulations to 'blue scuti,'" Rogers said. She added that the "extraordinary" event "defied" any previous known limits of the game.

　　Gibson uses a "rolling" controller playing method popularized in 2021. It permits players to operate the controls in different ways to be able to keep playing longer to reach higher levels.

　　I'm Bryan Lynn.

　　The Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse reported this story. Bryan Lynn adapted the reports for VOA Learning English.

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　　作者：Bryan Lynn

　　2024年1月4日

　　一名13岁的美国男孩成为了首位打败流行电子游戏《俄罗斯方块》的人。

　　这位年轻的游戏玩家，Willis Gibson，在游戏技术上投降之前完成了157个《俄罗斯方块》的关卡。

　　玩家们称这种结局为“终结画面”。《俄罗斯方块》的程序没有更多的游戏步骤可进行，因此它崩溃了，使得电子游戏冻结。

　　Gibson住在美国中西部的俄克拉荷马州，他的游戏名是“Blue Scuti”。在他打败游戏的视频录像中，可以听到他反复大喊“哦，我的上帝”。

　　“我感觉不到我的手指了，”Gibson在视频中说。

　　游戏专家长期以来都认为《俄罗斯方块》是无法被打败的。这部分是因为这款电子游戏没有明确的结束点。

　　《俄罗斯方块》于1984年推出，很快就成为了全球热门游戏。其创造者Alexey Pajitnov是前苏联俄罗斯科学院的一名计算机程序工程师。