Sep 01, 2007: It was mentioned to me by a friend that this page is *way* out
of date, so I guess it's time to correct that. My last update was almost two
years ago and the most recent accomplishment was my Perfect Pac-Man game in July
2005.
In September 2005, I attended a special event at Funspot which was a reunion of
the famous 1982 Life Magazine contest which featured the top players of that era.
In addition to meeting several of the stars from the past, I was also able to
submit a maxed out score of 999,999 on Lode Runner to tie the world record.
After this, I started to practice up on a game that I had wanted to improve on.
For the next few months, I would play this particular title on both MAME and
at Funspot and my scores continued to improve. In early 2006, I ended up purchasing
the game so that I could play more at home and that eventually resulted in my
next record. The game, of course, was Joust!
My next record came in September 2006. My friend Shawn
Cram used his rom burner to produce a set of 3-minute Centipede roms for me and I
had put them in my spare Centipede PCB. I had played it a few times and had some decent
scores, but one day when I had Dave Nelson and Jason Cram visiting my house, I ended
up scoring my personal best of just over 59K! This eclipsed the high score that was
achieved in the Centipede world championships back in 1981, reported to be just over 55K
by Eric Ginner.
Next up was a completely unforeseen improvement on one of my own record scores.
With some friendly competition/persuasion from Robert Mruczek during his annual
November visit to Funspot, I pushed my Super Cobra world record up to almost 250K!
My most recent record came less than a month after the annual Funspot tournament on
one of the new games that they had brought out during the tournament, Q*bert's Qubes.
| Centipede |
7,111,111 |
Nov 5, 2000 |
| Domino Man |
1,040,866 |
Jul 19, 2003 |
| Dig Dug |
4,388,520 |
Sep 20, 2003 |
| Millipede |
10,627,331 |
Dec 26, 2004 |
| Super Zaxxon |
622,000 |
Feb 19, 2005 |
| Frogger |
589,350 |
Mar 25, 2005 |
| Pac-Man |
3,333,360 |
Jul 20, 2005 |
| Lode Runner |
999,999 |
Sep 24, 2005 |
| Joust (TGTS) |
1,008,500 |
May 26, 2006 |
| 3-minute Centipede |
59,106 |
Sep 04, 2006 |
| Super Cobra |
248,100 |
Nov 18, 2006 |
| Q*Bert's Qubes |
10,101,010 |
Jun 30, 2007 |
For history's sake, here are my previous world records.
| Tron |
4,580,031 |
Jun 1, 2001 |
| Super Zaxxon |
496,950 |
Jan 19, 2003 |
| Super Cobra |
225,270 |
Jan 8, 2005 |
Since it is getting harder to find old classic arcade games out in "the
wild" to be able to pursue more world records, the next best thing is
to play on an emulator like
MAME. Currently, MAME
records are tracked separately from the actual arcade records, and there
are several good reasons for this.
Using the Twin Galaxies approved version of MAME, I currently hold several
additional World Records as verified by Twin Galaxies. Some of these
are listed below in alphabetical order.
| Centipede |
715,201 |
| Crazy Balloon |
466,920 |
| Dig Dug |
4,011,700 |
| Domino Man |
1,654,832 |
| Donkey Kong Jr. |
921,900 |
| Millipede |
745,123 |
| Ms Pacman (Fast) |
900,460 |
| Super Zaxxon |
953,450 |
| Zaxxon |
2,351,050 |