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Today marks the 32nd anniversary that Todd Rogers set a very important (and still unbeaten) world record on "Dragster" by Activision for the Atari 2600. Here are some notable elements of this achievement:1 - This is the earliest DOCUMENTED AND TWIN GALAXIES-VERIFIED console gaming world record
2 - This is the longest-standing unbeaten TWIN GALAXIES console gaming world-record
3 - This is the first (and possibly only) DOCUMENTED AND TG-VERIFIED time that a human being beat a computer's programmed outcome at a title
4 - This is the ONLY TG console gaming record that can seemingly never, ever be taken away...oldest unbeaten console gaming world record. Since the theoretical absolute best that a gamer can do now is to tie it, Todd will not only retain the mantle of holding the oldest unbeaten console gaming world record with TG, even if someone ties it (A) they can never beat it and (B) the fact that his record has stood for so long can never, ever be broken!
5 - Todd himself only accomplished a 5.51 on "Dragster" three (3) times in 1982, one of which was widely documented and accepted by TG, and he did a number of 5.54's over the years which equals that of the computer's best performance.
Former TG chief referee Robert MrucZek, having been witness to thousands of scores from 2006 and prior, let us know that he counts Todd's record as "one of the TOP TWO (2) unbeatable video game scores of all time, along with Phil Britt's "Paperboy" grand slam...that's more impressive than being party of the top five, mind you...these quite simply ARE the top two. THAT is how impressive the score is."
Twin Galaxies was founded in 1981.
Todd's score was performed in 1982.
It is one of the oldest unbeaten video game world records in the TG database.
This is an impressive milestone. What other long standing records lie within the Twin Galaxies database? Dive in and find out!
