Fairfield, Iowa -- July 16, 2004 -- Significant video game world records culled from Twin Galaxies' famous archives of videotaped game performances will be viewed this weekend as part of the 12th Annual New York Video Festival, in New York's famous Lincoln Center.

Walter Day, editor of the forthcoming edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, says: "This is a big breakthrough for all gamers who want their skills to be recognized by the mainstream media. I believe the presentation will be spellbounding as footage is viewed showing world class performances on games as contemporary as today's Tomb Raider and Resident Evil, plus vintage standards like Billy Mitchell's famous 'perfect' Pac-Man game."

The event is scheduled for Sunday, July 18, at 9:00 PM. The Lincoln Center is located between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Attended by an audience of film, design, music, and art professionals, as well as avid gamers and the general public, in the Lincoln Center's acclaimed Walter Reade Theatre, the Festival will host a weekend program titled: GAME ENGINE 2: OUT IN THE WORLD, which explores the psyche of today's gaming world.

To explain the theme behind Game Engine 2, Graham Leggat, of the Lincoln Center, says: "As video games continue to emerge into and energize mainstream culture, the stereotype of the gamer as a basement-dwelling shut-in is giving way to a new appreciation of the extraordinary talents of the teeming hordes playing games and working in the game industry."

Both Walter Day and Pac-Man champ Billy Mitchell will address the Festival, introducing a segment titled: World Record and Professional Gaming, which reveals the genius behind all videogame superstars. Twin Galaxies and G4TechTV supplied the footage for this portion of the event.

"By showing footage of the greatest video game accomplishments of the last 20 years," explains Day, "it can be shown that there is deep intelligence involved in solving complicated video games." Many of the gaming superstars to be examined during the presentation -- like the gifted Morrow brothers of Denton, Texas -- will be appearing in the forthcoming 2nd edition of Twin Galaxiesí Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, which is the industry's official record book.

For information on the 12th Annual New York Video Festival, go to The Film Society of Lincoln Center at www.filmlinc.com, or contact Graham Leggat at 212/875-5416. or by email at gleggat@filmlinc.com.