Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to ‘Beat’ Tetris
Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game that it froze. “I can’t feel my fingers,” he said afterward.
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Willis Gibson, 13, of Stillwater, Okla., at the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship in Portland, Ore., in October. He placed third overall. David Macdonald |