A 13-year-old American boy has become the first person to beat Tetris, bringing Nintendo’s classic video game, which is more than three decades old, to the “screen of death,” News.ro reported, citing Reuters.

Willis Gibson, aka streamer Blue Scuti, said “Please crash” as he cascaded puzzle pieces across the screen, and seconds later his wish was granted as the game froze, prompting him to repeatedly exclaim “Oh God!” video uploaded to YouTube on January 2.

According to 404 Media, Gibson broke world records for total score, level achieved and total number of lines.

“It’s incredible,” Vince Clemente, CEO of the Classic Tetris World Championship, told Reuters.

“The developers didn’t think anyone would ever make it this far, and now the game has officially been beaten by a human.”

Previously, only a computer program with artificial intelligence managed to beat Tetris, Clemente said.

Willis uses the “rolling” controller technique popularized in 2021, which allows the player to manipulate the trackpad, or D-pad, at least 20 times per second to move blocks, far more than the previously popular method of “hypertap,” 404 Media reported.

Tetris, which was first released in 1984 and became a worldwide sensation almost immediately, challenges players to rotate and match seven different shapes of falling blocks.

Tetris, created by Oleksiy Pazhitnov at the Moscow Academy of Sciences at the height of the Cold War and developed as a business by gaming entrepreneur Henk Rogers, has shown remarkable resilience across generations.

According to The Tetris Company, it is the best-selling video game of all time, with 520 million copies sold.