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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. Gravestones by 56ker · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  2. You, too can play asteroids... for free! by a3d0a3m · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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

  3. His dying thought... by heretic108 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!"

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  4. Re:Why can't Hemos spell? by mav[LAG] · · Score: 5, Funny

    The word you were searching for is "posthumous." From Latin 'posthumus'. No homos involved.

    And I think the word we're all searching for is "posthemos" :)

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  5. That one Seinfeld episode... by satanami69 · · Score: 4, Funny

    All I could think of is George doing his best frogger impression trying to save his high score. That was classic.

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  6. 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