Jump to content
Have You Played Atari Today?
2600|5200|7800|Lynx|Jaguar|Forums|Store  

Crimefighter

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content Count

    985

  • Joined

  • Last visited

Posts posted by Crimefighter

  3. Posted

    I just looked at the video - it looks like it's being played on an emulator...and the text is all screwed up. Plus I don't remember falling off a cliff going through the lost forest in Majora's Mask - walkthroughs don't mention it either. So it's obviously a rom-hack. Whether it would creep me out...doubt it - especially if I can play through Resident Evil 4.

  9. Posted

    ......and frankly I'm done with your negativity...

     

    I can back up everything I have said. Just because you have chosen to ignore my facts does not make me negative.

     

    I'm sorry I don't agree with that, you've just fired off a bunch of statements of opinion that you are claiming to be facts. You're being negative JUST to be negative. You seem to have some major beef with the guys running this thing which is why you're talking it down so hard. And THAT is pissing me off.

  10. Posted

    RMAERZ, I think you need to watch this. The key quote can be found at the end of this story. The anchorman said something very interesting.

     

    http://www.heartlandconnection.com/news/story.aspx?id=492421

     

    50% of the people on the street that the reporter talked to had never heard of the event and did not know what was going on. Yeah, the Ottumwa crew did a stellar job of promotion. :roll:

     

    If 50% of the LOCAL population doesn't know about what you are doing, how can you be a success?

     

     

    Half of the local population cannot name ANY of their elected leaders...nor do they ever pick up a newspaper or watch the local news.

  12. Posted

    I saw The King Of Kong,A Fistful Of Quarters last night on YTV.No matter how good one thinks they are, there's will ALWAYS be someone who is better than YOU.This seems like something Billy's father forgot to tell him when he was a kid.Billy's records were being broken, and to be fair, sure he was annoyed, and had a right to be.I don't think Billy is all that bad as the movie made him out to be.Steve Weibe befriended Billy's arch rival, Roy, i'm sure that was the major reason Billy was annoyed by Steve.I got into the movie a little late, why did Billy Hate Roy anyway?, besides the supposed cheating, gummy substance thing?.Maybe my opinion of Billy will not be the same after learning this reason?.Animosity exists between all competitors realistically.Also to be quite honest, Billy did seem to be a sore loser, i must add.It's okay to be sore at first when beaten, but to carry an ever lasting negative grudge when you're beaten fair and square is not respectable

     

    If it's the Roy I think it is (I've not seen the movie, but this guy uses a walker), he got himself booted out of Big Bang when he raised a stink over the legitimacy of the new records. The guy actually hung out at the front doors for hours tell anyone and everyone why he believes the new records are phony. Of course his excessive whining turned out to be for naught as there were witnesses and footage of him playing the games. Good lord, and people complain about ME having nothing better to do with my time....I'm surprised someone hasn't just flat out said "well he must be gay!".

  13. Posted

    Notice that Billy Mitchell does not play Donkey Kong 3? That is because Billy Mitchell knows he can't break my record! :D :cool:

     

     

    OK, honestly it is probably the fact that he does not hold this record in high esteem as the other records. But it is kind of cool that my score is right along side a great like Billy Mitchell. There were only 3 Donkey Kong machines released in the U.S. during the early 80's(Donkey Kong,Donkey Kong Junior, and Donkey Kong3), and I happen to be the only person on the planet besides Billy Mitchell to have one of those records.

     

    That's because DK3 is regarded as the red-headed step-child and the weakest DK title of the series...

     

    http://www.videogamecritic.net/nesde.htm#Donkey_Kong_3

  18. Posted

    Some news out of Big Bang --

     

    Billy Mitchell reclaims records - http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/167295-announcement-at-big-bang/

     

    The VG Hall of Fame ceremonies took places - http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=27&id=2214

     

    The Tetris Party record was set - http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=27&id=2212

     

    Raising the flag - http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=27&id=2208

     

    Check out the Bridge View Center - http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=27&id=2208

     

    Other pictures - http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=27&id=2205

     

    There's more over on Twin Galaxies...but this is just a sample.

     

    The Pac-Man competitions going on with the Star Worlds display was quite fierce, some big numbers posted on Ms. Pac-Man Fast with a 303K score, Jr. Pac-Man with 70K score, Hangly Man had a 404K score, someone racked up 448K on Baby Pac-Man, and I got 85K on Super Pac-Man set to very hard. Championship Pac-Man over on the XBox 360 had someone score over 300K in the 5 minute championship mode.

  19. Posted

    Announced today at Big Bang, Billy Mitchell showed video gameplay footage that he has retaken the Donkey Kong & Donkey Kong Jr. world records in the same day. Mitchell only raised the record by only 1100 points choosing not to go for every point he could get...while on DKJ he ran the points up on the sparks board by standing on the left edge of the third level waiting for sparks to come down and hopping one or two at a time over and over until the clock ran out up until his last man. He reached the kill screen on DKJ.

     

    http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=27&id=2213

  20. Posted

    Well I'm here...since it's Thursday it looks like most of the activity begins tomorrow...but Star Worlds is here with a Pac-Man arcade, the Bring Your Own Console -- btw, you have to bring a console to go in that area at all; maybe an Atari Flashback machine or a dedicated video game device is acceptable -- is only a quarter full at this point...there's also an gaming display area with four of the arcade machines used to score a world record. Organizers say they are raising money to open an actual gaming museum in the future. Free copies of Computer Power User magazine.

  21. Posted

    what this all goes back to is crimefighters first post here in this topic and his first line:http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/166255-the-big-bang-ottumwa-ia-85-88/page__view__findpost__p__2053547

    Gee, why didn't I hear about this earlier???

    and for the record one article in the Iowa paper isn't great either except for people in Iowa.

    good publicity is tv ads, mentions on the net, paper ads etc etc.

    Walter haven't been doing all that. I think mike and I know what we are talking about

     

    http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=big+bang+iowa

     

    Well there's more than one....

  22. Posted

    Pointing out their shortcomings is not bashing. They made the comments publicly & set the expectation. I am merely pointing out that they have not lived up to them. That is not bashing, but a statement of fact.

     

    No, that is a statement of your opinion.

  23. Posted

    Here's publicity for ya....

     

     

    http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100803/NEWS/8030365/Ottumwa-hopes-to-make-video-game-celebration-national-event

     

    Ottumwa wants to set its own high score.

     

    The first fistful of quarters drops Thursday with the Big Bang, a four-day celebration of all-things video games that will culminate with the first induction of luminaries into the International Video Game Hall of Fame.

     

    "We want to become the Cooperstown of video games," said Ottumwa Mayor Dale Uehling, referring to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.

     

    The goal may sound lofty, but both the baseball hall of fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland sprouted from similar humble beginnings in the last century.

     

    Organizers expect the event to draw between 3,500 and 5,000 people to a city most famous for being the hometown of fictional "M*A*S*H" company clerk Walter "Radar" O'Reilly.

     

    A different Walter leads Ottumwa's video game effort: Walter Day, 61. This gray-bearded, native Californian, New England-educated, former oil futures trader and passionate transcendental meditation devotee stands at the center of what could be a cultural evolution for Ottumwa.

     

    "The fact that this is happening in Iowa, and especially Ottumwa, is astounding," Day said. "We are stepping up to do something that San Jose, L.A., Seattle and Tokyo haven't. This could transform Ottumwa for the benefit of all of Iowa."

     

    At first glance, Ottumwa seems like an odd spot for a video-game landmark. Atari was born in San Jose, Calif. Nintendo makes its American home in Seattle. Tokyo is the capital of video game technology and development.

     

    But Ottumwa, population 25,000, is a manufacturing town. Top employers include a John Deere hay-baler plant and Cargill Meat Solutions packing plant.

     

    Still, Ottumwa might have a more legitimate claim to becoming the video-game hall of fame than Cooperstown did to the baseball mecca.

     

    Cooperstown rallied for the museum's placement in the village during the Great Depression, based on the erroneous assumption than Civil War Union general Abner Doubleday invented the game there.

     

    Now, Cooperstown, population 2,000, has a tourist attraction that draws more than 350,000 people and millions of dollars to the region a year.

     

    Ottumwa stakes its claim to the video-game flag based on nearly 30 years of history that began when Day opened the Twin Galaxies arcade on the city's Main Street in November 1981.

     

    Shortly thereafter, a customer notched what Day believed was a record for the game Defender. He made nine phone calls to various game manufacturers and distributors trying to verify the record.

     

    "What I found out was nobody was keeping the records," Day said. "So I volunteered. I left my name and number at every place I called and said I had a scoreboard and was going to keep the records."

     

    Within a half hour, Day received a phone call from a man in Goodlettsville, Tenn., wanting to report a score, unofficially christening Day as scorekeeper for competitive video gaming.

     

    The score-keeping gig, which is unpaid, lasted longer than the arcade, which closed in March 1984.

     

    Day assembled a network of volunteer referees to help him manage and verify scores. Verification requires referees to watch a record set live in an approved venue or a video-recorded submission.

     

    "There are these very smart, very dedicated people who love doing this," Day said. "They watch 30, 40 and 50 hours of performances to verify a record. They are very passionate about it."

     

    At the center of it all remained Day, who has been featured in two documentaries about video games, "The King of Kong" and "Chasing Ghosts."

     

    Day mediated disputes and organized tournaments to raise money to pay for costs of keeping records and maintaining a website. Through Thursday, the Twin Galaxies network has verified 132,209 scores since 1981.

     

    In the competitive video gaming world, Twin Galaxies is so widely known and respected that Guinness World Records uses data from the Ottumwa organization.

     

    Day wants to retire. He's handing Twin Galaxies over to a Florida man, who plans to turn it into a for-profit data company.

     

    Still, Day has one game token left to play: He wants to make Ottumwa the center of the video-game universe.

     

    Day and Ottumwa are going after a piece of one of the biggest pies in the world. PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates the video-game industry, the fastest growing segment of entertainment, will be worth $68 billion by 2012. If Ottumwa, and by extension Iowa, can take a sliver of that, it would be a massive tourism force for the Hawkeye State.

     

    "I have a vision of 100,000 people coming to Ottumwa every year for a four- or five-day event," Day said. "I want it to be a major cultural event nationally and internationally. People will plan their vacations around coming to Ottumwa to visit this hall of fame."

     

    History proves it can happen. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted its first class in 1936, three years before the museum opened. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame enshrined musicians for a dozen years before a building debuted in Cleveland in 1995.

     

    "We started small," said Tim Wiles, head researcher for the Cooperstown hall of fame and a University of Iowa graduate. "The original incorporation papers for the museum show the group planning the hall optimistically predicted hundreds of visitors a year."

     

    The International Video Game Hall of Fame is following the same path. It has formed a nonprofit corporation and assembled a board of directors that includes the chamber of commerce, city and state officials, and two curators from an Ottumwa piercing parlor.

     

    The committee wants to gather a working copy of every video-game title ever made - more than 100,000 titles - and in every format, from Atari to PlayStation 3. It has launched a campaign to gather all 4,500 coin-operated arcade game titles, to be the centerpiece of an interactive museum.

     

    "We're very excited about this," Uehling said. "This could become a tremendous tourism draw for our city."

     

    This weekend, hall leaders are inducting 29 famed video-game creators, developers, high-score champions and one game: Pac-Man, the 1980 game that became a cultural phenomenon that endures today.

     

    If the video-game world's response is any indication, few are scoffing at Ottumwa. Pac-Man's owners, Namco-Bandi, a Japanese company that recorded 2009 revenues of $4.7 billion, is sending a team from its American offices, including the official traveling Pac-Man mascot costume.

     

    Inductee Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of Donkey Kong and Mario Bros., a figure revered in Japan, sent the organizers a letter telling them he was unable to attend but was honored by the recognition.

     

    Billy Mitchell, a hot-sauce maker and restaurateur from Hollywood, Fla., was dubbed "video game player of the century" while attending the 1999 Tokyo Video Game Show. He believes Ottumwa is the perfect spot for a video game shrine.

     

    "Ottumwa is absolutely the right place," Mitchell said. "It's the birthplace of competitive video gaming. The industry couldn't see the forest for the trees, but Walter (Day) in Ottumwa stood up and brought order to the chaos. He kept the records. He created a trust and reputation.

     

    "It belongs in Ottumwa."

  25. Posted

     

     

    Thanks a bunch. I believe that Crimefighter had the high score and it was between 33,000 and 37,000 at VGS. Next time I show the game we will need to start over though because several bugs have been fixed including collision and scoring issues that make playing the different versions of the game an unfair comparison. (Crimefighter, it looks like your VGS 2010 record will stand for eternity :))

     

    D. Scott Williamson

     

    I shot it up well over 50,000 before I stopped...I bet I could rack up 100,000 on the finished product.

AtariAge
Forums
Store
General
Follow AtariAge

Copyright ©1998-2021 AtariAge

×
×
  • Create New...