Tapper World Record Crushed

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.

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wow

[XO]

Well, congratulations there, Greg.

I don't mean to detract from that awesome goal, but since you mention yourself that it's a lot more useful to use the 5-man Tapper score as the One To Beat .. doesn't it seem odd that the game would just reset back to the beginning difficulty and such when you hit lev 256? Just doesn't seem fair that if anyone can hit the 256 that it should even continue on.. that at that point perhaps it should become a -speed- contest .. now, let's see who can get to the game reset the fastest? :)

tapper was great

[Anonymous Coward]

i spent many hours back in the 80's playing tapper, also another favourite was digger, a great modernish port was made and can be found here