Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records

By Walter Day

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

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.