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Top Asteroids Scorer Gets Posthumous Award

Posted by Hemos on from the from-beyond-the-grave dept.

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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  1. Re:41,336,440 points? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think that what they're saying is that he did it on ONE quarter. Wow.

    Beer, it's not just for breakfast anymore

  2. Re:Where are the details by Loligo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Some time back in the very early 80's, a guy here in Austin by the name of Charles Brown (I Am Not Making That Up) had a locally publicized attempt to break the Asteroids "longest game" record, dunno if score was terribly relevant to him.

    As I recall, he would play for several hours at a time, then take a break without worry about dying.

    Asteroids kept awarding extra ships EVERY 10,000 points, with "no" upper limit (well, in theory, you know how these things work), so you could just walk away long enough to hit the restroom or eat a burger or just walk around for a few minutes without really worrying about it.

    Since it took a fair amount of time to get to each rollover at a million, it should have been no big deal for him to yell out "rollover" in time for someone to come over and verify each one...

    -l