After 44 years, Donkey Kong player discovers that the legendary kill screen isn't really the end

For the better part of 44 years, Nintendo's 1981 arcade classic Donkey Kong was understood to have a single, definitive ...
Shacknews

Mario speedrunner Kosmic reaches new Donkey Kong kill screen

For about as long as the Donkey Kong arcade game has been around, high-skill players have known about the kill screen on the first board of Level 22 that kills Jumpman (Mario) shortly after you start ...
Popular Science

A 13-year-old wunderkind is the first human to ‘beat’ Tetris

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A casual gamer could reasonably assume that, after nearly 35 years ...
USA Today

'I can't feel my fingers': 13-year-old Tetris winner dumbfounded after beating game

Tetris is an old-school video game, released nearly 40 years ago. But a 13-year-old from Oklahoma just pulled off a new trick on the classic, being the first player to truly beat the game. Willis ...
Yahoo

First-ever killscreen-less "Rebirth" achieved in NES version of Tetris, 38 years later

The NES Tetris arms race finally seems to be over— while Tetris (NES) was finally "beaten" at level 157 in December 2023, culminating in the first human-reached "Kill screen" crash, it has always been ...
Engadget

This kid just became the first person to beat NES Tetris

Tetris is one of the most popular and enduring video games of all time, with versions on just about every console, computer and gadget. Many of these iterations have endings baked into story modes and ...
Staten Island Advance

Report: 13-year-old Oklahoma boy is first Tetris player to reach fabled ‘kill screen’

The legendarily addictive block-building video game Tetris finally saw the walls come crumbling down last month as 13-year-old Willis Gibson of Oklahoma became the first player to officially “beat” ...