For laughs, if you click that Archive.Org link above, check out the approx Jul/04 captures which by then prove that the site lapsed and someone else took it over for a markedly different purpose.
Makes you wonder why he was so comfortable with that happening. After all, "Perfect Pacman" was how he wanted to be represented...unless even back then he was already thinking "Beyond Perfect".
Well, well, well...the site is already taken...I wonder by whom ?
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The 20 Year Reunion/Class of 1981 machines pop up for sale every few months on KLOV, and prices usually average about $1k.Quote:
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https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_d...p?game_id=8784
The 25th Anniversary Pac-Man games are less common.\
https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_d...?game_id=13351
With the infamous split screen, the game is effectively glitched at that point with no chance of recovery. By TG's own policies, any points you earn at that moment shouldn't be accepted:
https://www.twingalaxies.com/wiki_in...ll-Submissions
The split screen is the result of a byte-rollover error (the game considers this screen board 0) and is an unintended glitch that's common with most 8-bit hardware-based games. The current rules for arcade Pac-Man make no mention of the glitched split screen.Quote:
The use of "glitches" or "glitch tactics" that defeat the generally accepted understanding of the spirit of the game / or reasonable interpretation of the intention of the game's designers are disallowed as a general rule. Specific track rules can explicitly override this general rule.
IMO, a perfect Pac-Man run would be 1 life up to the split screen, with any points earned on the glitched screen not allowed.
IIRC, Mitchell pushed to allow for game settings to give you 5 players at the start, instead of 3 (which was the default setting from the factory), specifically to take advantage of the split screen.
Kinda funny that it happened, but I wouldn't be so quick to assume this new domain is the same case. I looked into it and found out that it's still for sale.Quote:
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Curiously "BeyondPerfect.com" actually is taken...and by coincidence the registry lapses in about two weeks unless renewed.
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According to Archive it used to be a website for wedding consulting from 1999-2008, even though the copyright only goes until 2002. I do find it interesting that it is about to expire, though when I went back to the website it changed from a bland website to one that actually flaunted business regarding domains.
On that note, there really isn't a point to wait for that specific domain. Seeing that he's so focused on himself, why not just use the .me domain? That one is ripe for the taking.
I've spent the last few days looking into the history of the Twin Galaxies saga and many of the characters involved, and I honestly feel like I need to have my head examined. It's like watching a slow motion train wreck, frame by frame, where some of the darker elements of the saga truly sickened me, and distinguishing fact from fiction appears to be all but impossible.
In my opinion, some people seriously need to get laid and stop obsessing over decades-old video game scores. No joke, I'm starting to think Donkey Kong should be renamed to Dinky Dong, where at least that mysterious "gummy substance" mentioned in the documentary titled "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" would make sense.
I also noticed a lot of patriotism expressed by a few notable characters, which may or may not be genuine. A quote from the following article sums it up nicely. "True patriots, then, do not serve egoism, blind nationalism or greedy self-interest. So, when those with political and economic power wield patriotic symbols, ceremonies and platitudes to divide us and turn us against our common humanity, they are not patriots. They are engaging in what George Washington called 'the impostures of pretended patriotism'—feigning to be patriots in order to deceive us and further their selfish aims."
https://shepherdexpress.com/advice/o...of-patriotism/
Fortunately, there is one saving grace. I found the documentary titled "Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler" to be surprisingly enjoyable, where Tim McVey appears to be one of the few characters actually grounded in reality, and he appears to be a great guy.
Not sure how far back your research took you, but you would need to start at the source which was 1981.
The early years are a bit difficult to track in terms of staffing as Walter did not seem to bother to mention that much in any of his earlier interviews, apparently preferring to keep the limelight, if you will, limited to himself yet focused mainly on one person from the gaming side...Billy.
TG's first stint ended a few years later in 1987. It's arcade closed, and the phone line was turned off at some point. And that was that.
TG's second stint began at some point between 1995-1996, I have no idea exactly when or what sequence of events took place, but at one point...as Walter told me...the "new TG" was comprised of close to 72 staffers. Apparently some high net worth individual , as Walter told me, bought interest in TG as a gift to his trophy girlfriend...again, as Walter told me. The staffers largely came from people local to Ottumwa or Fairfield, Iowa, I forget where TG was located at the time. Most were not referees but people who were assigned clerical positions. Only a small number of formal referees existed back then.
Between 2000 and 2002 a lawsuit ended which removed that businessman from the TG ownership on paper as well as awarding Walter some financial damages which were, in part, used to remake the TG database, forums, everything including the server itself. By that time the number of referees remaining was quite small but in a few years that number increased up until there was a change in ownership yet again. From that point most of what happened within TG from both an ownership and referee perspective is well documented and accessible.
As an avid amateur historian, I tried to start at the very beginning, but reliable information from that era is very hard to come by, or at least it is for Twin Galaxies. In any case, it didn't take much research to learn it's a saga that's just about as twisted as the snake from the Nibbler arcade game.Quote:
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It's easy to get swept up in current headlines, but I find that history provides proper context which helps to make everything more clear, or so I thought.
By the way, a certain eccentric character related to the Missile Command arcade game scores controversy a number of years ago made me curious, so I looked at the current scores. At first glance, the current high score held by a gentleman named Tony Temple in the UK stood out as being suspiciously high, but I quickly discovered that he's as legit as they come, and quite likable too. It's a shame that more people like this aren't in the spotlight, instead of those dominating headlines in recent years.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fViAdtZfnoc
thats very interesting and believable and leads me to a lot of speculation.Quote:
Originally Posted by RTM
so whatever the right semantics are, effectively walter sold a portion of tg and then got it back
later tg was sold to pete, and gotten back
sold to adler, and gotten back
sold to jace, who is now being sued for 10 million dollars, where its not hard to imagine a goal to get tg back....
each caseis different, each case comes with an explanation. but when time after time TG is sold only to somehow be taken back i cant help but think of a kid tying a string around a quarter to play games for free, greatly disappointed to learn the trick no longer works.
With what little I've learned about the history of Twin Galaxies thus far, had I been in the position of Jace Hall at the time of purchase, I wouldn't have touched it with a ten foot pole, let alone paid a reported $70,000 for it. Don't get me wrong, some potential remains, but it comes with a lot of excess baggage that will probably always exist in one form or another.Quote:
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