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    I was able to watch a youtube recap of this.

    Its an incredible feat. I think its just great that people are still pushing and able to push boundaries on games that are, basically, from the advent of gaming in a modern tradition.

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      If you haven’t seen “King of Kong, you should definitely watch it.

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        Requisite, Billy Mitchell is a lying, manipulative, cheating, litigious fraud.

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          The evidence is so blatant, in fact, that listening to him talk about his record feels more like listening to a 4 year old talk about how they didn’t take a cookie from the cookie jar while covered in crumbs and chocolate.

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    Other gamers are now trying to beat the 13-year-old’s records, with many documenting their attempts on social media and video streaming websites.

    And they probably will in time, but no one can take away being the first one to do so! Way to go kid!

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    I just pray I never have to watch a Karl Jobst video on this kid.

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      He does make positive videos too. Sometimes

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    An Oklahoma teenager is believed to have become the first human player to beat Nintendo’s classic video game Tetris, 34 years after its release.

    Willis Gibson posted a video on his YouTube channel of the moment he reached level 157, causing the game to crash.

    The popular video game - which sees players arrange falling blocks into perfect horizontal lines at increasing speeds - was originally created in 1984 by Soviet engineer Alexey Pajitnov, and gained popularity after its debut on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) and Nintendo’s Game Boy handheld console in 1989.

    In 2010, professional competitive gamer Thor Aackerlund managed to reach level 30 by using a technique called hypertapping, where a player vibrates their fingers in a way which moves the controller faster than the in-game speed.

    This led to other gamers adopting hypertapping and other techniques to see how far they could go - but as of last month, only AI had been able to reach the game’s true kill screen.

    Other gamers are now trying to beat the 13-year-old’s records, with many documenting their attempts on social media and video streaming websites.


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