Last month, George Leutz set out to topple a high score nearly 28 years old: Q*Bert‘s all time mark of 33,273,520. It’s believed that it would take playing for 70 hours on a single quarter to beat that score. Halfway into it, someone kicked a power cord, (seen above) and all of Leutz’s work was lost. More »
A 27-year-old video gaming world record has fallen to a British man playing on an arcade cabinet he rescued from a garbage dump nearly 20 years ago. More »
The infamous “kill screen” sets a limit to the highest possible score in Donkey Kong. Steve Wiebe, who reclaimed the world’s No. 1 in September, says the game still has about 100,000 points to go. More »
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This Sunday I facetiously suggested that an Activision game tester had claimed the world record fastest time for eating a horrible meat sandwich called the Double Down. Disney Interactive Studios wants it known they have just obliterated the mark. More »
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Two Activision game testers staged a speed-eating competition of the KFC culinary profanity known as the Double Down, with the winner polishing it off in 57.97 seconds. Video inside, plus my review of the “sandwich.” More »
The people who made Bejeweled 2 bring us what they say is the true tale of the first person to conquer Bejeweled 2. 2200 hours. 2,147,482,575 points. Max score possible. Meet Mike Leyde [Bejeweled official site]
