Gamer ‘prodigy,’ 13, is the first known person to beat iconic 1988 Tetris video game for Nintendo – and he did it in 38 minutes

A 13-year-old boy has been hailed as a “prodigy” after becoming the first known person to beat the popular 1988 video game Tetris for the original Nintendo console.

Oklahoma's Willis Gibson was live streaming in-play last month when he hit a “True Killerscreen” in 38 minutes, knocking down blocks at a rapid pace that forced the game to collapse — and it was only done by the AI.

Gamers have long believed that level 30 was a screen killer after Thor Aackerlund performed the “hyper-tapping” method in 2010, which saw him jiggle his fingers on the controller to move faster in the game.

However, Gibson, whose in-game name is “Blue Scuti”, broke the record, reaching level 157 and watching the game explode on screen.

Gibson has been playing Tetris since he was 11, practicing three to five hours a day.

He turned his interest to a hobby and competed several times in gaming tournaments, one in October where he placed third.

“I went into the tournament hoping to get into the top 16, and I exceeded that,” Gibson said. Stillwater News Press.

“I was mainly excited to play against some players I knew online.”

Tetris is a simple but deceptively simple game of falling bricks of various shapes, which must be quickly rearranged to form a solid wall.

Gibson has been playing Tetris since he was 11, practicing three to five hours a day. He turned the interest into a hobby and competed several times in gaming tournaments, one in October where he placed third (pictured)

Gibson has been playing Tetris since he was 11, practicing three to five hours a day

The video game was first created by a Soviet engineer in 1984 and came to the United States in 1988.

It is completely addictive and remains a commercial phenomenon, and is easily the best-selling video game of all time, with over half a billion downloads on mobile devices alone.

Gibson was playing Tetris during a live stream on his YouTube channel.

With a look of concentration, he stacked the blocks on top of each other as they continued to increase in speed as they fell.

“Oh, I missed it,” Gibson said after misplacing one of the blocks, but the fear of defeat quickly changed as he recovered from the incident.

Then he said: Oh my God, as he saw the blocks falling into place.

Gibson scored another streak and the game froze.

'Oh, my God! Yes! “I'm going to pass out,” he said, realizing he had crashed the game.

“I can't feel my hands.”

In an interview with streamer ITZsharky1, Gibson revealed that he came close to breaking the game on previous plays but was never able to get there.

“My biggest struggle was when the nerves started to set in after 30 minutes of play,” he said, noting that the match win was dedicated to his father, Adam Gibson, who died in December.