Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score

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Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score

Postby StNick » Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:39 pm

On Saturday, John McAllister sat down at a friend’s house near Portland, Oregon to play a game of Asteroids. By Monday, he was still playing.

At 10:18 p.m. Pacific, he scored 41,338,740 points, a new all-time high score. In doing so, he beat a record that has stood for over 27 years.


http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/04/asteroids-record/
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Re: Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score

Postby malusi » Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:49 pm

think they had a chuck episode with something like this in it. this new record holder must have used music as well then, i suppose..
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Re: Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score

Postby Chunkyfeather » Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:50 pm

nice :-)
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Re: Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score

Postby slipslop » Fri Apr 09, 2010 7:03 pm

Can that version be paused? The original could not.
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Re: Asteroids Player Smashes 27-Year-Old High Score

Postby Ruach » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:41 am

malusi wrote:think they had a chuck episode with something like this in it. this new record holder must have used music as well then, i suppose..


yeah its Jeff!

what a legend
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