25 years after his world record achievement, the world can now see a clip from Rick Fothergill's history-making Ms. Pac-Man game.Every world record is preceded by lots of practice. In the case of "Captain Canada," it look 12 years before the big moment arrived.In July 1996, Rick attained ...

While the story of Twin Galaxies' opening at 226 E. Main Street in Ottumwa, Iowa in November 1981, and Mayor Jerry Parker's "Video Game Capital of the World" declaration the following year are part of TG lore, what is less generally known is that Walter Day opened a new Twin Galaxies ...

Leading up to the publication of his book Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records in February 1998, Walter Day sought to raise the profile of the relaunched Twin Galaxies, now based in Fairfield, Iowa by promoting high score competitions. The "City vs City" ...

In February 2008, Twin Galaxies posthumously honored John Lawton for the distinction of holding the longest held video game record. With his brother Bob Lawton, John opened The Weirs Sports Center in June 1952, which operated on the second floor of Tarlsons Arcade in Laconia, NH. The Weirs Sports Center ...

Scene World Magazine's AJ and Joerg recently landed an interview with Missile Command champion Roy Shildt, which is featured in their latest podcast - episode #108.In the interview, Roy delves into his Missile Command history, including discussion of various controversies around his marathon score. ...

Thirty seven years ago today, the residents of Ottumwa, Iowa gathered to celebrate a video game high score. Led by Mayor Jerry Parker and Twin Galaxies owner Walter Day, guests and the media gathered at the same downtown arcade where 17 year old homegrown champion Tim McVey became the first person to ...

From the TG Documentary Archives, this poster documents a "showdown" that occurred fifteen years ago this April where Twin Galaxies members Kelly Tharp and Doris Self competed for the Q*bert royal crown during the "Toughest Gun in Dodge City" event held at Apollo Amusements in Pompano ...

As part of a 40 year retrospective of Twin Galaxies, I'll be sharing new content uploaded to the Twin Galaxies Documentary Archive. Today's selection pitted gamers against the television series Seinfeld.$1000 Cash Prize - George Costanza's Frogger Score, 2005In 2005, Robert Mruczek established ...

I didn't originally follow the dispute around Victor Ali's Missile Command (Marathon) score of 80,364,995 points when it was disputed in 2018, but I recently started reviewing the community discussion and TG's decision to remove the score based on the available evidence.https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/186906-Dispute-John-McAllister-Arcade-Missile-Command-Points-Marathon-Player-Victor-Ali-Score-80-364-995A ...

Forty years ago, Jon Bloch and Walter Day opened an arcade in downtown Ottumwa, Iowa on November 10, 1981. Flanked by a shoe store and an optometrist shop at 226 East Main Street, the new arcade welcomed its first customers at 6:30pm and in doing so, joined an ever-growing number of arcade businesses ...

In yesterday's Wall Post, I learned that the content I recently uploaded to the TG Wiki about the Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard (TGIS) February 1984 - which features a number of "lost" scores that didn't make it into the 1997 TG Records Book or TG database in 2000 - wasn't ...

A new resource is now available on the Historical section of the TG Wiki that will feature archival materials or links to "legacy" high scores that were either tracked/sanctioned by previous TG management, as well as leaderboards that continued to follow high scores following TG's closure ...

I wanted to share with the community that the Historical section of the TG Wiki has been updated with a new collection of materials to complement the Old Twin Galaxies Video Tape and INP archives. The Old Twin Galaxies Documentary Archive will feature scanned copies of awards, posters, and news ...

Learning the reasons behind someone's choice for a username/handle and avatar has always been super-interesting to me. I found that TG members back in 2008 started up a discussion on this subject, and I thought it would be great to hear from current members about their avatar/name choice. It's ...

https://www.wired.com/story/retro-gaming-violent-tragedy-rudy-ferretti/

Steve Wiebe has launched his Twitch channel and is currently streaming some DK play (as of 10:50pm EST) - catch him at:https://www.twitch.tv/stevejwiebe

Good morning fellow netizens,There’s a few exciting stories I’m following in the world of all things Pole Position, a 1980s arcade classic from Namco, but more famously associated in North America with Atari (since it distributed the game in the territory). If you were standing in a quiet ...

Back in July 1982, Frank Breneman pushed our yellow dot muncher to the limit, clocking 4.5 hours of play to reach a score of 3,149,120. Breneman may have been tired but was still ready to steer Pac-Man through the maze before he reached the famous "kill screen" on level 256. But in a world ...

While looking into the history of high score competition, I've come across or rediscovered several different "leaderboards" that gamers used prior to the web-based appearance of the Twin Galaxies in 1997/98. At the same time, I was interested in examining scoreboards that appeared in magazine ...

Fittingly, Garrett Holland's epic River Raid run was the inaugural submission for the "Fastest Completion" River Raid track:

https://www.twingalaxies.com/game/ri...atari-2600-vcs

Although Garrett did earn a time of 3 hours 15 minutes that qualified him for the original ...

On New Year's Eve, Garrett Holland secured the first bounty of 2019 with his high flying skills on Activision's River Raid, maxing the game at one million points. A second bounty for completion of the task in 3 hours 15 minutes or less was also on the line. I recently established a "fastest ...

Barely one day after the $75 Bounty for one million points on River Raid for the Atari 2600 was issued, Garrett Holland got to work. While preparing for holiday visitors, Garrett did a final review of his console connections and video capture set-up and sat down to record a run for the ages. Settling ...

Spurred by TG forum discussions about the difficulty of achieving a million points on River Raid for the Atari 2600, the following bounties are offered to spur competition on this title and to answer these questions as well as to recognize the skill in accomplishing these feats.There are two $75 bounties ...

Thanks to the efforts of Simon Roberts and Robert Hazelby, additional video footage from the CGE UK 2005 in Croydon UK is available on YouTube. Simon and Robert compiled this footage onto a commemorative DVD, but this footage wasn't widely available as it came together before the advent of video ...

Newsweek is reporting that Rick Fox is settling various lawsuits with the remaining partners of Echo Fox to pursue new ventures, including one reportedly called Twin Galaxies International. Fox's statement does not specifically mention TG, but he said "I look forward to announcing my next ...