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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."
maybe they should have enlisted him to star in Armageddon.
So who would you trust to deflect a threatening asteroid? BRUCE WILLIS - the world's foremost deep core oil driller, or SCOTT SAFRAN, asteroid blaster, but with experience only in 2D torus space geometry? Tough choice.
Check out the MAME project (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) get the program at the official site here. And get some (illegal) roms at a rom site, like this one here.
adam
He seemed a pretty decent guy. He died trying to save his cat and he played asteroids two hours away for a fund raiser. Shame some one like him still isn't around to bring some more joy to this sometimes sorrow filled world.
Many "incredibly too high" high scores that were able to be saved in high score area got there from game malfunctions.
I myself one day had a Battlezone coinop go nutz and practivally mac out my score...
I was good but not that good.
The glitz did not kill the game in play. I did get to see a rare transitional musical interlude stage associated with getting the highest score I assume.
Putting my initials on the ridiculous score was still a thrill.
Besides I wonder if Asteroids goes to the score they cited in the article legitimately anyways.
People used to exaggerate the number of keys they got in pac man past what the machine rom doled out.
I wonder if he got the score via electronic malfunction?