Top Asteroids Scorer Gets Posthumous Award

JayBonci writes "Twin Galaxies is running a story on how after fifteen years, the search for the reigning Asteroids high score champion has ended. The late Scott Safran's family was presented with the award (he died several years ago from a falling injury). It's a pretty interesting article on how Scott's family never knew of his achievement until they were contacted. As it turns out, Twin Galaxies is compiling a book of high score champions of major and classic video games over the years."

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The Point.....

[Astral Jung]

What is it?

Ok, this is just a rant, but come on, an actual, printed book of the high scores of video games? Where they actually research and try to track down names of people who played a game years ago?

Now, I've heard of some pretty inane shit being published in book form, but this is the only thing that I've seen that doesn't have any use for the content, unless the scores are entertaining in some way.

No, wait, I take it back. I suppose if your name is in the book, you can show it to your friends, but if the book is as large as it's represented on the web site, that doesn't make you all that special, and if it's smaller, that's not exactly going to make copies fly off the shelves.

I did see a book based on old arcade games, talking about what they were like, who produced them, but that was somewhat usable information, if only for nostalgia or wierd fact using conversation.

Ok, that's my soapboxing for this month. Feel free to fire at will, mods.