| 2/14/2006 | Twin Galaxies Appears in Guinness
Guinness World Records publishes two pages of video game data | |
Twin Galaxies
Appears in Guinness World Records
| After 25
years as the worldwide electronic gaming industry's official
scorekeeper, Twin Galaxies has gained the attention of Guinness World
Records, the experts on superlatives and world records. "You'll have to
buy the book to see all the video-game
related
records they have published in this edition," advises Walter
Day.
"Especially if your dying to know who won history's largest video
game cash prize or where the largest arcade in history was
located." Click on the image at
left to see a larger
image of the
cover.
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Twin Galaxies managed to score a
mention on page 180 of the
prestigious tome, where it reads: "LONGEST SERVING PROFESSIONAL GAMING
REFEREE. Walter Day (USA), founder of Twin Galaxies, has
been
refereeing world computer game high scores since 1982, when his
database of high-score statistics was first made available to the
public. He has refereed high scores ever since and has been recognized
by most of the major games manufacturers." Click on the image at left to see a larger
image of the
original text.
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Billy Mitchell, recognized as history's most famous
video game
player, also has a mention, on page 181. It reads: "FIRST PERFECT
PAC-MAN SCORE.
The first person to ever achieve a perfect score on PAC-MAN was Billy
Mitchell (USA). On July 3, 1999, he played the game for nearly six
hours continuously, on one quarter coin, eating every dot, energizer,
blue man, and fruit on each of the 256 boards, after which the game
runs out of memory and ends with a split screen. Billy used only one
life and his final perfect score was 3,333,360 points. The event was
monitored by Twin Galaxies, the world's authority on computer game high
scores." Click
on the image at
left to see a larger image of the
original
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