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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."
Hmmmm...with the worlds highest score maybe they should have enlisted him to star in Armageddon.
Makes me think of the advertising computer games on gravestones thread. Here lies Scott Safran, who died saving his pet cat. Asteroid's Hall of Fame 1. Scott Safran 41,336,440 points Just another sig link
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While he was falling onto the rocks below, Scott Safran thought:
"Oh shit, outta fuel, no time to turn and blast this huge fuckin asteroid hurtlin' towards me!"
-- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
The word you were searching for is "posthumous." From Latin 'posthumus'. No homos involved.
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And I think the word we're all searching for is "posthemos"
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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.
All I could think of is George doing his best frogger impression trying to save his high score. That was classic.
I really hate Dan Patrick.
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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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?
just curious...that guy "AAA" was the king of my local pizza joint.