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Twin Galaxies also holds annual events at the Classic Gaming Expo (http://www.cgexpo.com) Additionally, we run monthly MAME and Console challenges thru our sister site Snipercade (http://www.snipercade.com/twingal)

Wow! $9.95 for something otherwise FREE?!? Count me in for 100 of those puppies! NOT! Some people... I say kill them all and raise the genepool...

IMHO, better SQ than ET...

Thomas, I have and I love it!

Agreed. In fact, most people couldn't last the entire 15 minutes in the live challenge we (TG) ran at CGE. No way, no how...

If you really want a challenge on VCS Asteroids... Game 32, Diff A This is the variation I play most often as it offers the greatest challenge. Two years ago at CGE I ran a tournament for 32A with a 15 minute time limit. Here are the results: http://www.twingalaxies.com/cgi-perl/searc...latformSelect=5

This story ran on several sites, but here is the one I refer most people to: http://www.twingalaxies.com/cgi-perl/news_..._champ_found.pl

Most valuable cart I own is Swordquest: Waterworld. Rarity 9 here and a 7 in the DP guide.

Frying is the term. Haven't heard of any others tho'.

Ms. Pacman Berzerk (Voice Enhanced) Megamania River Raid... o.k., I like 'em all. What can I say, I'm an Atari FANATIC!!!

Welcome Candyrose! I am a crossbreed here. I am a serious collector and gamer. Best of both worlds right? Most I've ever paid for a cart is $150 for a Colecovision Proto (which I no longer own due to theft). http://www.snipercade.com/twingal/bin/imag...s/ron_chart.png for a summary of my collection. Here in Phoenix, AZ, cart prices are still "reasonable". You can still find commons for $ .50. Take care.

ATARI 2600 ASTEROIDS RECORD SMASHED Reported by Ron Corcoran - Worldwide Atari and Intellivision Editor Saturday, August 17th, 2002 As most of us were sleeping this past Saturday when the clock struck midnight and Sunday began, Mike Morrow was quite awake... albeit extremely tired... After all, he had just finished playing Atari 2600 "Asteroids" for 33 hours 7 minutes straight on game 1B!! In the process, he achieved a final score of over 10 million points, more than 6 times the previous world record of 1.6 million. Each million points took approximately 3 hours to achieve, and Mike estimates that he pressed the fire button roughly 300,000 times during this marathon stretch, a calculation that comes down to about 2.5 presses per second, enough to induce a hand cramp at the very least !! Oh yes, for the mathemeticians out there...this averages approx 84.175 points per second. Mike used an original 2600 "Woody", and a commercial Asteroids cartridge for this achievement. The entire event is captured on four 8-hour videotapes at SLP speed, plus a little over an hour on a 5th tape. All materials will be sent for final validation prior to his record being posted on the Twin Galaxies online scoreboard and in the Book of Records. This marks Mike's first completed venture into the "marathon realm" of gameplay, and in doing so he has joined a small but intrepid and dedicated group of gamers who have burned the midnight oil and then some while on the same gaming credit. Mike told us that "ships were sacrificed in order to rest my hands for a few seconds, eat, drink, and to visit the restroom. This is risky as you can never have more than 9 ships, so breaks may only be as long as 30 seconds or you can lose your game." Mike also explains..."I'd like to dedicate this record to the memory of Scott Safran", who we know to be the recognized arcade Asteroids world record holder who had passed away a few years back while attempting to save his cat. Mike is also the officially recognized and verified world record holder on quite a few important gaming records, including the world's only sub-60 minute completion of "Resident Evil" from the more modern PS2 system, and is hard at work at Atari 2600 "Xenophobe", already achieving a score of 1,084,285 and trying for more. Congratulations Mike, on an awesome and inspiring achievement in the world of vintage video gaming !!

I only play Left "B" and Right "B". All scores in the TG database are also B - B difficulty. As I said, if anyone wants to play AB, BA or AA, I can create new categories in the database and track those seperately.

It's a start!

I'd be game for this. (Shameless TG plug) If you record your game to tape or .avi (PCAEWin), you can submit it for TG consideration. (Shameless plug off)...

Yes, our intent is to fix all score anomolies (sp) as soon as we can. I could create a new category for Diff A...

This sounds like a good question for Brien. I have an iPAQ which can read raw .csv or I can convert to PocketExcel. I know very, very little about Palm as I have been a WinCE user for years and never got into PalmOS. Sorry.

Actually, the scores listed are for number of strokes taken in 9 holes, not a measure of "under par".

The scores listed on the TG site are strokes taken a) for 9 holes b) not sorted properly (my score should be second to last) c) played on Difficulty B As for scoring, the following comes straight from the manual for the game: Hole No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL Par 3 5 4 4 4 5 4 3 4 36 The Human Cannonball scores in the dBase are still hosed. We are working to get many shortcomings fixed.

The Pseudo Echo remake is pretty funky too...

Something similiar to the Kobe gum thing was a big news story here in Phoenix, AZ recently. Apparently a security guard picked up the gum of one of the baseball players (Diamondbacks) and sold it on ebay for several thousand dollars... strange...

If any of those folks declined to give an autograph I would be shocked beyond belief... HSW not only autographed a copy of his tapes for me but wanted to know more about me and Snipercade. Truly stunning considering I am a nobody...

Here is another I've created that shows company logos of those companies that created titles for the Atari line of consoles. All images used with Al's permission. http://www.snipercade.com/twingal/software...gameco_1024.jpg

it's in there... you just have to look *really* hard...

Here is a little something I threw together using PaintShop Pro. It was created for 1280x1024. All images came off the AtariAge site and were used with Al's permission. Oh, yes, I know it's busy but there are a lot a games to represent. Enjoy!