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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."
Really, putting such an obvious typo on the front page is just sloppy... this is supposed to be a geek site, show a little brain power please!
The word you were searching for is "posthumous." From Latin 'posthumus'. No homos involved.
The article isn't all that earthshaking, but it does bring up an interesting thought - this may well be a record that will never be broken. Asteroids is a classic game, and certainly people do still play it and will continue to, but not in the numbers that were playing it at the time. And that was a hell of a high score.
Too bad the guy died...
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