 At left is the medallion commissioned by Billy Mitchell to honor Abdner when his Robotron record was only at 893,000 points.
Abdner Ashman of Queens, NY has set new Robotron and Junior Pac-Man marks at Totally Amused in Houston, Texas during the "Legends of the Golden Age" superstar reunion.
And, playing for 41 hours, Paul Dean of Riverside, California set a new Frenzy record. Plus, Kelly Tharp of Sellersburg, Indiana played 18 hours to grab the Tapper world title.
Playing at 3:00 AM in the morning, after more than 200 attempts, Abdner achieved 945,550 points, history's highest Robotron score on the difficult 5-man setting. Earlier in the night, Abdner had set a new Junior Pac-Man record of 2,238,990 points. Abdner Ashman is now recognized as a rare "renaissance" player who has world-class skills on both strategy games and fast-reaction-time games.
Paul Dean on Frenzy, the 1983 video hit manufactured by Stern, scored 4,874,931 points, beating the old mark of 4,804,540 points set by Mark Smith at the Putt Putt Golf and Games in Shelby, NC on July 16, 1983.
Meanwhile, Tharp, playing for 18 hours scored 9,437,400 points to eclipse the 9,100,175-point record set by Greg Erway of Rochester, NY in June, 2003.
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