Aussie Man Sets New Galaga World Record

19 responses to “Aussie Man Sets New Galaga World Record”

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   brad

   August 31, 2009 at 1:12 pm

   dont bother giving it to twin galaxies. they are a bunch of shysters!

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      Danny

      August 31, 2009 at 6:25 pm

      Twin Galaxies… Yikes those guys are as trustworthy as Chinese dental hygiene products.

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   Aaron Clement

   August 31, 2009 at 1:12 pm

   So when can he expect two guys to break in and pull his machine apart to look for defects/hacks, then make a whole movie out of it?

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   doubleDizz

   August 31, 2009 at 1:17 pm

   I didn’t think Twin Galaxies existed anymore…?

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   James

   August 31, 2009 at 1:22 pm

   That’s awesome. I think I’m going to grab Galaga off of XBLA to celebrate.

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   Stinky

   August 31, 2009 at 1:29 pm

   That’s a pretty mental score, it would be great to see the video.

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   Denaz

   August 31, 2009 at 1:30 pm

   Such a great game

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   Andrew Mills

   August 31, 2009 at 1:35 pm

   “There was no one else around.”

   A given… Had to be said.

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8. 

   Chuloopa

   August 31, 2009 at 1:38 pm

   no one around hey??

   i..-ahem-.. got to 4mil on galaga during my lunch break.. -ahem-

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      Chu Liu

      September 1, 2009 at 1:17 pm

      It would have been recorded as per twin galaxy requirements for evidence.

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      James Britton

      September 2, 2009 at 7:42 am

      It’s only those that can do nothing that doubt that those who can DO.

      Good work Phil. Don’t sweat the tall poppy syndrome.

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   David Holbeck

   August 31, 2009 at 1:40 pm

   My friend has been carrying a piece of paper in his wallet for about 10 years, his score from a machine in our local snooker club. I emailed him the article, his response:

   “Man that is so annoying. I got 6,632,130 over about 5 hours.
   Fired 30532 shots
   Hit 27737
   Yes I still have the bit of paper in my wallet”

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      Stinky

      August 31, 2009 at 3:27 pm

      Was he using tournament settings? Double shoot variant? Easy? No shoot glitch?

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         David Holbeck

         August 31, 2009 at 4:11 pm

         It was so long ago that I doubt we could verify which Rank the machine was set to, but he didn’t use the no shoot glitch. It was just a plain old sit down Galaga machine, I don’t believe double shoot variant.

         Maybe I should try to pull him out of retirement, but finding a machine would be a pain in the proverbial.

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    Alex Cullinan

    August 31, 2009 at 1:43 pm

    hey! i was playing the galaga pastiche in Retro Game Challenge just before!

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    Jay Kay

    August 31, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    Aussies pwn at Galaga, come to a certain nightclub in Brisbane and I’ll show you whats what

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    Hirko

    September 1, 2009 at 1:52 pm

    I know Phil Day personally and all of his record-breaking games have been video taped from start to end and vetted and verified by Twin Galaxies.

    He plays on full tournament mode and makes an uncut recording of each game which starts with a view of his arcade machine’s board and dip switch settings then the complete game and ends with another inspection of the board and dip switch settings. I believe that these conditions are required by Twin Galaxies.

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    Chris

    September 2, 2009 at 7:47 am

    hey, phil is my english teacher. he is awesome and he lives for galaga. he never stops talking about it and i think he deserves this win!

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    thud thorax

    October 24, 2009 at 1:26 am

    Galaga is like Blackjack, there’s a trick to it. Old school gamers know exactly what I’m talking about. During the summer holidays when I was sixteen, I used to regularly pull six to eight hour stints at the local corner store racking up an average of 5.4 million points till the shopkeeper kicked me out. Where do I go to get in on this World Record action?

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