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The game was chosen for the final round of the 1981 Atari World Championships run by Tournament Games International. The men's champion was Eric Ginner and the women's champion was Ok-Soo Han. [58] The world record score on the arcade version of Centipede was 16,389,547 points by Jim Schneider of the USA on August 1, 1984. [59]
On July 8, 1985, he became the fifth person to achieve a score on Centipede of more than 10 million points in marathon play. [55] He set a record score for Donkey Kong Jr. of 957,300 in 2004. [55] He said he recaptured the world records for both Donkey Kong (1,062,800 points) and Donkey Kong Jr. (1,270,900) on the weekend of July 24, 2010. [23]
In 1988, the Guinness Book of World records stopped publishing records from Twin Galaxies due to a decline in interest for arcade games. [12] On February 8, 1998, Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records was published. It is a 984-page book containing scores compiled since 1981.
According to the National Museum of Play, the history of arcade games in the United States traces its roots back to the 19th century, originating in dime museums and amusement parlors. Pinball ...
In game theory, the centipede game, first introduced by Robert Rosenthal in 1981, is an extensive form game in which two players take turns choosing either to take a slightly larger share of an increasing pot, or to pass the pot to the other player. The payoffs are arranged so that if one passes the pot to one's opponent and the opponent takes ...
Funspot is ranked by Guinness World Records as the world's largest arcade. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The majority of games at Funspot are part of the American Classic Arcade Museum's collection, a non-profit organization located on Funspot's second floor, [ 2 ] whose goal is to "promote and preserve the history of coin-operated arcade games."
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Several of Todd Rogers' records have come under scrutiny for being seemingly impossible or lacking sufficient proof. In 2002, Robert Mruczek, then chief referee at Twin Galaxies, officially rescinded Todd's record time in Barnstorming after other players pointed out that his time of 32.04 seconds did not appear to be possible, even when the game was hacked to remove all obstacles.