On Friday, July 23, 1999 at 2:00:00 AM UTC-5, marco vos wrote:
Here in The Netherlands, it was even FRONT-PAGE news on the biggest
newspaper of Holland:
The Telegraaf.
Rhett James Barnes <cryor...@aol.com> wrote in message news:cryorunner-22...@dt085n38.san.rr.com...
I hadn't payed attention to this thread. But I at least felt that it was
a safe assumption that the discussion and interest was pretty much
confined to this group. And I guess I also assumed that it was some sort
of historical event people were talking about; must have happened in 1982 or so.
But then yesterday my friend asked me, "Hey did you hear that some guy got a perfect score on Pac Man?" And the alarms went off. Seems they're
trying to pass this off as NATIONAL NEWS. In 1999.
I mean, you'd expect it here. Anyone reading this group is just a loser. [OK, reality check: How many gigantic, old, rickety, video-dinasuars do
you have cluttering up your garage/basement/living-room, causing endless grief to the rest of your family? How many hours a day to you spend
trying to keep these things alive, or trying to find new ones to waste
your money on? Guilty as charged.]
But this thing is actually a news item in the press. The world is clearly coming to an end.
In article <7lrtnb$did$1...@cscnews.csc.calpoly.edu>, jgod...@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu (Jon David Godfrey) wrote:
Thought there would be some interest...
Posted from: http://www.twingalaxies.com/PR-Pac-Man_World_Record.html
NEWS RELEASE
CONTACT: Walter Day, Twin Galaxies (515)472-3882, http://www.twingalaxies.com
PHOTOGRAPH AVAILABLE
For immediate release: July 4, 1999
"Perfect score" achieved on Pac-Man in New Hampshire
WEIRS BEACH, NH -- For the first time in video game playing history,
a
perfect score was achieved on the legendary arcade game, Pac-Man.
Taking nearly six hours to accomplish the feat -- on one quarter --
Billy Mitchell, 33, a Fort Lauderdale hot sauce manufacturer visiting
the famous Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, NH, scored
3,333,360 points -- the maximum possible points allowed by the game.
The results will go into next year's edition of the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records -- which is the official record book for the world of video game and pinball playing. Though the Funspot is a world famous vacation spot, Billy Mitchell
was
not there to enjoy the holiday festivities. Mitchell was there for
the
sole purpose of beating the Canadians to the Holy Grail of video game playing: history's first perfect game on Pac-Man.
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