Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Tapper World Record Crushed

Posted by simoniker on from the slurring-your-words dept.

Greg Erway writes "There's a story at Twin Galaxies about my recent record-beating Tapper high score. It took almost 16 straight hours to rack up 9,100,125 points and beat the previous arcade game record, set back in 1986 by Mike Ward." Many of you probably remember Midway's Budweiser-sponsored Tapper arcade machine, and the story estimates that Greg filled over 75,000 virtual beer glasses, as well as having to kill off 79 bartenders at the end of the game to actually get the game over screen.

1 of 19 comments (clear)

  1. space dungeon by epine · · Score: 3, Informative


    When you roll over the level counter on Space Dungeon, it prints out the rhyme "you're the hero on level zero". I should know. That's where my undergraduate career ended. Level zero, 6,999,995 points.

    With a little help from my friends while I guzzled an omelette.