The Oklahoma boy is believed to be the first documented player to beat the game

Previously only bots and AI had got game to its ‘kill screen’ but Willis Gibson managed to get game to freeze with score 999999

Willis Gibson, 13, "beat" the original Nintendo version of Tetris. He reached a point where the block-stacking game's code glitches, crashing it. Willis Gibson is the first documented player to beat Tetris in the original version of the game. The game was released in 1996.