Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records

Description:

This is a book of records, a history of the Twin Galaxies' Arcade, and the author's efforts to create video game competitions for skilled players to make game playing a sport. It has scores, best times, and finished game information, along with the names of the record setter, and the state and town that the player lives. In some places there are listed over 100 records for the same game, for example 156 listing for 'Koopa Beach' level of "Super Mario Kart" for the Super NES. With times from 41.69, to 1:22.70, on this level. The book also tells the reader how they can get their scores placed into future editions of the book and listed on the Twin Galaxies's Scoreboard. This is the first book in the series that ran from 1998-2009.

subjects: Pinball,  Video games,  Videogames,  Games,  Sports,  Passtimes,  Hobbies,  Aracde,  Electronic Games,  Records,  Scores,  World Records,  Atari Video Computer System,  Atari VCS,  Atari 2600,  Atari 400,  Atari 800 Atari XL,  Atari 5200,  Atari 7800,  Atari Lynx,  Atari Jaguar,  Colecovision,  Commodore 64,  Vic-20,  Intellivision,  Nintendo Entertainment Systems,  NES,  Super NES,  Super Nintendo Entertainment Systems,  SNES,  Odyssey2,  Odyssey 2,  Sega Master System,  Sega Genesis,  Mega Drive,  MegaDrive,  MD,  SMD,  Sega CD,  Sega 32X,  32X-CD,  Sega Saturn,  Playstation,  Sony,  Turbo Grafix-16,  Vectrex,  IBM-PC,  Personal Computers,  Macintosh,  Apple,  Texas Instruments,  Emulation

People: U.S. National Video Game Team,  Walter Day

Places: Fairfield,  Iowa,  Ottumwa

Times: 1082-1998