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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."
Yes, you're right. We should write a book about how special *you* are.
If you don't like the idea of the book, don't buy it. But a lot of people who played pac-man, pitfall, asteroids, tempest, etc. will be able to appreciate the unfathomable accomplishments of something like that guy who had a perfect score in pac-man. A perfect fucking score! He ate all four ghosts every time he swallowed the power pill and he grabbed every piece of fruit. And he kept playing until the very last screen possible.
Something like that deserves to be preserved in a published book.
The score on original asteroids goes round the clock after a measly 99990 points, a fairly trivial target. So unless there is a hidden counter there, someone must have had to watch the whole thing and count how many times he did this. Also, how long did it take - does anyone have any details on this ?
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