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Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records

1st Edition edition

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.

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Publisher
Sunstar
Language
English
Pages
968

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Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records
May 22, 1998, Sunstar
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Table of Contents

Prologue. v
Aclmowledgements. ix
Introduction. xxv
Part I: The Rules of the Games.
Section One: The Rules for Video Game & Pinball Playing. 3
The "Player versus the Computer" Principle. 4
A Letter from Steve Kirk. 7
Section Two: Twin Galaxies Tournament Settings (TGTS). 15
An Outline of Rules to Follow to Have ¥Jur Scores Published. 15
Part II: The Scores.
Part II Contents. 39
Section One: The Champions of Video Games & Pinball. 43
Section Two: Arcade Games. 47
Video Game Scores. 47
Pinball Game Scores. 183
Section Three: Arcade Emulators.
Video Game Emulators. 243
Twin Galaxies Video Game Masters Tournament 1997 Scores. 247
Pinball Emulators. 260
Pinball Scores. 260
Section Four: Home Computer Game Systems. 281
IBM-PC & Macintosh Scores. 281
Texas Instruments Scores. 292
Strategy War Games Scores. 295
Section Five: Home Game Consoles.
Atari Home Systems. 305
Atari 400/800/XL. 305
Atari 2600. 311
Atari 5200. 356
Atari 7800. 359
Atari Lynx. 363
Atari Jaguar. 365
Colecovision. 378
Commodore Systems. 386
Commodore 64. 386
Vic-20. 389
Intellivision. 391
Nintendo Entertainment Systems (NES). 401
Odyssry 2. 674
Sega Systems. 675
(Sega Master System. 675
Sega Genesis. 679
Sega CD. 678
Sega 32X/32X-CD. 678
Sega Saturn. 688
Playstation by Sony. 692
Turbo Grafix-16. 700
Vectrex. 705
Part III: How to Get in this Book.
Section One: Getting in the Book. 711
A Letter to Your Arcade Manager. 713
Official Submission Form for High Scores. 714
Section Two: A Calendar of Up-Coming Contests that will Get You into this Book. 717
Part IV: Special Bonus Section The Golden Age of Video Game Arcades (How Twin Galaxies Became the Official Scorekeeper).
Part IV Contents. 729
Section One: The Golden Age of Video Game Arcades. 731
Section Two: Twin Galaxies. 739
Section Three: The Official Scoreboard. 753
Section Four: LIFE Magazine: The Players Finally Meet. 771
Section Five: The Video Game Capital of the World. 783
Section Six: "That's Incredible". 789
Section Seven: The Dodge City of Video Games. 805
Section Eight: The Governor's Visit. 819
Section Nine: The Electronic Circus. 829
Section Ten: The United States National Video Game Team. 843
Section Eleven: The Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard Gets Tough. 861
Section Twelve: The Video Game & Pinball Masters Tournament. 879
Section Thirteen: The Golden Age Ends. 923
Section Fourteen: Where Are They Now?. 933

Edition Notes

Series
Video Game World Records
Other Titles
Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records (on front cover and title page only)

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
xxxii, 936p.
Number of pages
968
Dimensions
23 x 15 x 5 centimeters
Weight
2.9 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL8708394M
ISBN 10
1887472258
ISBN 13
9781887472258
OCLC/WorldCat
38589450
Library Thing
4693892
Goodreads
302754

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