SAN FRANCISCO — The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the ...

Building blocks. Work stopped, beards grew and ashtrays filled as Pajitnov's colleagues joined in the Zen-like game of creating solid lines out of rapidly descending T-shaped on-screen blocks. Word ...

Stop and think about it: Have you ever seen someone actually beat the classic block-dropping game Tetris? Sure, you've seen people lose at Tetris, getting their blocks to the top of the screen.

Before last month, no human had ever been known to beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris. Artificial intelligence had done so, but then came Willis Gibson, who only needed 39 minutes.