it s beyond cool. it s awesome. we do understand that in the meantime two other players who took part in the race to crash have officially crashed the game as well, i understand? does that raise the stakes for you? um a little, a little bit, yeah. so it s going to be a nice challenge for you. can you explain to somebody like myself, who s been living under a rock, what is a tetris kill screen? what it is, is when the you play for so long that the game just can t handle it anymore. and it just stops. it crashes. and that s what you did? yes. right. and we re actually watching that very moment happening right now on screen. and obviously everyone is waiting for that amazing reaction that you had. talk to us a little bit about how you must have been
oh! it took willis gibson 38 minutes to reach a level no human has ever reached before. and just look at that reaction. and to play the game until it glitched out and hit its kill screen. so far, the only other player to beat the game was a.i., which got to level 236 by manipulating the game parameters. and i got to speak to the legend himself. willis gibson and his mom, karen cox, are with me now. willis, you did what no one else has. you beat the original tetris. congratulations on your achievement. how does it feel to be the very first person to crash the original tetris? um it feels very good. i never expected to do this. it s pretty cool. it is pretty cool.
after 34 engineers somebody has finally beaten at the time tris on the inen in toe system. to make it even more remarkable, he s 13 years old. oh, my god, oh, my god! oh, my god. yes! wow, okay. it took willis gibson 38 minutes to reach a level no human has ever reached before and to play the game until it glitched out and hits the skill screen. so far the only other player to beat the game was ai which got to level 236 by manipulating the game parameters. listen, i don t know, maybe it s
solutions. the first solution is fewer bowl games. so many immediate oaker teams and only two really mean anything. next year will change. the playoff expands to 12 teams. eight more games that mean something but in terms of the portal, i don t want congress to step in and legislate that. i think that would be the wrong way to go. you need to establish sol rules that maybe would limit the number of transfers teams could take. trace: maybe you pay the players. that s another solution. eric and michelle, thank you both. trace: first up in tonight s viral videos [breathing hard] i can t see my hands. trace: that was the reaction, 13-year-old from ohio reached the kill screen if which crashed a game.
achieved something that was unthinkable for decades. he was actually willing to listen to that tetris music for so long that he beat the game. watch this. please crush. to the tiny, triumph this sounds of bleeps, loops and a near complete nervous breakdown you re witnessing one of the proudest moments in the history of video games. tetris, finally toppled by human hands. the guy totally freaking out is oklahoma s teenage tetris whiz willis gibson. i can t feel my fingers. under the game or handle, that 13 prodigy scoring so high the game could no longer function. reaching its once mythical kill screen in just 38 minutes at level 1:57. i was just so shocked and just happy that i did. it tetris! tetris, and it s beautiful