Wednesday, December 22, 2004

Stop the humanoid!


Here’s a man earning the respect of literally dozens of nerds:

A man who has spent at least two hours practising on a vintage video game for the past 25 years has secured what he says is the highest ever score.
Gary Whelan, of Duckinfield, Greater Manchester, has been playing the space invaders game, Galaxian, since 1980.
He said he had set a world record of 399,290 points, beating the previous record held by a Californian.
Mr Whelan said he would not stop playing until he had reached at least a million points.
It’s been a loonnggg time since I wore parachute pants, but I’ll still lay claim to top ten scores in Berserk and Spy Hunter (with well over 300,000 points on the upright version of Spy Hunter – my left foot was completely numb by the end of the game.)

6 comments:

Brian said...

Isn't that Robotron pictured? It sure isn't Galaxian.

Anonymous said...

What was so evil about Evil Otto, anyway? The man was just doing his job. Damned liberal videogame media!

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Uncle Mikey said...

Da da da DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH DAH DA-DAAAAAAH!

(the song that plays when your Spyhunter game ends)

Anonymous said...

If that`s Galaxian then i`ve been playing the wrong game for 25 years ;)

Gaz Whelan

DJ Drummond said...

Back in the day, I could have sworn I once logged 400,000 on Galaxian. That was because I was the Night Manager at an arcade, and had no social life whatsoever.

Did you know that after 3 or 4 hours of that game, you hear the game everywhere you go? Good thing I walked home in those days!

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