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.

Comments

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? :)

Re:wow

[CokeBear]

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.

Re:Crushed?

[still_sick]

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.