In Real Life

George Costanza’s Frogger Record Shattered

The one shining achievement in the life of Seinfeld’s George Costanza is no more, as a Connecticut man shatters the fictional Frogger record previously thought unattainable by real people.


October 14, 2009
News

Infinite Bits: Miami’s First Video Game Convention

Next weekend in Miami you can enjoy live music, tournaments, world record competitions, special guests, a costume contest and a video game museum at Infinite Bits, South Florida’s “first major video game convention”.


September 12, 2009
News

Pac-Man World Record Broken

The official Pac-Man world record has become a little less attainable, as the sixth person in history to achieve a perfect score in Namco’s arcade classic is also the fastest to date.


September 3, 2009
In Real Life

Can You Beat These Wii Sports Resort Scores?

Video game record keeper Twin Galaxies has posted the first official record scores for Wii Sports Resort. Have you got what it takes to oust the champions?


May 4, 2009
In Real Life

Video Game Hall Of Fame Gains Momentum, Support

Barely a month old, the movement to place a video game hall of fame in Ottumwa, Iowa has formed a city-backed committee and is hiring legal services to incorporate itself as a nonprofit venture.


April 30, 2009
In Real Life

Iowa Town To Announce Plans For Game Hall Of Fame

Billy Mitchell, the world record holder in Donkey Kong and one of gaming’s original stars, will be in Ottumwa, Iowa today as the city announces its intention to create a video games hall of fame.


April 27, 2009
In Real Life

Steve Wiebe Gets A Donkey Kong World Record

Steve Wiebe will be taking a crack at Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong world record during this year’s E3. To help him warm up, then, he just set a new Donkey Kong Jnr. world mark.


April 7, 2009

A Claim to Fame, in the Dodge City of Video Games

These days, a big weekend in Ottumwa, Iowa, population 26,000 or so, is defined by the line out the door at its Applebee’s. On its chamber of commerce’s list of 101 things to do there, you’ll see attractions like genealogy research, pumpkin picking, and a tour of the John Deere factory. The same as most towns spread out on the frying-pan flat Midwest of the United States, Ottumwa is the kind of place whose charm you’d come to understand not if you bothered to visit, but if you cared to stay.


December 31, 2008
Uncategorized

The King of Stampede

The thing about goals, they must be measurable, and they must be achievable. That’s how I justify going after some low hanging fruit — beating Steve Wiebe’s score on an Atari 2600 classic.