The American teenager stared at the screen in amazement as the Tetris video game returned to the beginning.
Sixteen-year-old Michael Artiaga was live-streaming playing Nintendo's version of Tetris on Sunday when he reached a historic moment, a so-called "rebirth."
It took him 82 minutes to complete the highest, 255th level of the game.
He became the first in the world to do so.
Artijaga, who streams under the name "dogplayingtetris", he rejoiced as he watched in amazement as the video game was reset, that is, back to the beginning.
"Am I dreaming bro?" he asked excitedly during a live broadcast on the YouTube channel.
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In the end, the teenager collected 29,4 million points.
"I'm incredibly glad the game is over," he added as he prepared to end the broadcast.
"I never want to play Tetris again."
He was reportedly playing a version of Tetris made for the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) console that prevents the game from "breaking" after level 155.
It was the 'shooting games' and screens that marked the struggle of the previous young players who were passing on their own ventures.
Teenager Willis Gibson claimed earlier this year that he had become the first in the world to beat Tetris since he reached level 157 in 38 minutes, after which the game "crashed".
Tetris was created in 1984 by the Soviet engineer Aleksey Pajitnov, and since then hundreds of versions have been created for various platforms, consoles and computers.
The classic among video games has remained very popular all this time.
Players have to line up the different falling shapes, each consisting of four cubes, so that they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle in horizontal lines.
Lines disappear when completed.
As the player progresses through the levels, the shapes drop faster and faster.
It's game over if you fail to clear them before they fill the entire window.
Artiaga is one of several teenage gamers who live-streamed their own attempts to break previous and mutual records for the number of levels completed or lines cleared before 'shooting the game'.
He became the youngest Tetris World Champion when he was 13 after defeating his older brother in the 2020 World Championship finals.
"I still can't believe it... The first one who managed to reach 'rebirth'," he wrote in the description of the two-hour YouTube broadcast.
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