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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.

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  1. wow by XO · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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? :)

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    1. Re:wow by CokeBear · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Thats why its called a "marathon". At that point, simply staying on your feet is an accomplishment. Never mind the fact that there are only a handful of people in the world who can hit 256.

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      Reality has a liberal bias
  2. 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.

  3. Crushed? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 3, Funny

    Previous record: 9,068,625
    New Record: 9,100,175
    I don't mean to belit achievement, but that's not exactly the trouncing that "crushed" brings to mind.

    1. Re:Crushed? by still_sick · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Yes, it is indeed "crushed".

      If you'd care to read the article, or for that matter the summary, you'd see that he had to kill off 79 extra lives to end his game after breaking the record.

      In other words - he 0wnz3rz this game. Whether he beat the old record by a thousand or ten million is irrelevant. The fact is that he could've beat the record by whatever number you'd care to mention - he just didn't see the need to bother.

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      ...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
    2. Re:Crushed? by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 2

      You're right.