At Totally Amused, in Humble, Texas, during the Legends of the Golden Age superstar reunion, Paul Dean of Riverside, California and Kelly Tharp of Louisville, Kentucky are forging ahead with marathon attempts at new world records. Paul Dean has passed the 3/4 mark during his attempt to break the 22-year-old frenzy world record: 4,804,540 points set by Mark Smith in 1983.

 

Currently at 4 million points, Dean will be playing until Sunday afternoon to break the record. Dwayne Richard of Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada, a world record holder in his own right on dozens of classic arcade titles, watched Dean play throughout the night, performing the function of "official witness" to verify Dean's achievement for Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records.

 

Dean also is the world record holder on the arcade edition of Spy Hunter.

 

Also, Kelly Tharp has reached 6.1 million points in an attempt to break Greg Erway's mark of 9.1 million points set in 2004.

 

In late breaking news, the two-year-old Jr. Pac-Man record fell tonight at the hands of Abdner Ashman, of Queens, NY, who scored 2,238,990 points, eclipsing his own world record of 1,550,000 points set in June of 2003.