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 Need some cash for school? Autumn game money? A chance at glory? Well this year's CGE has it all!
25 years to the day that Billy Mitchell set the world record for the arcade classic Donkey Kong, he set a new world record of 1,050,200 in front of a huge audience on July 14 2007. To mark this accomplishment and promote competition, Billy has personally offered a $10,000 prize to anyone who can beat his world record this weekend, July 28-29 at the Classic Gaming Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
So get out there and tag-team this giant of professional gaming and humble him with your mad hammer-swinging skills, and tell him www.RFGeneration.com sent you. 
http://www.twingalaxies.c...m/index.aspx?c=19&id=1465
 I have a dream......sorry had a dream, that I would one day become Twin Galaxies Tetris DX champion. I thought of it often, considering myself very skilled at the game and within a couple dozen lines away from the world record holder I was closing in fast. Until recently the 545 lines that Harry J. Hong achieved was a goal well within my grasp. I was sitting somewhere around 520-ish and improving constantly.
I could almost feel the weight of the crown as it sat on my head, feel the weight and balance of the nerd cred scepter in my hand, and was prepared to ready myself for the Hexomino warlords, Tetromino barbarians and polycube pagans who would eventually try to take my kingdom of blocks away from me. I trained in the arts, fasted often, made pilgrimages to level 30 every chance I could, I thought it was enough.
But alas it was not meant to be, for a stranger from yonder land hath smite me upon my brow, before my triumphant victory hath befallen me, leaving me to my fate on the digital field of battle.
The name of my nemesis is Lori Baker and with her absolutely incredible performance of 841 lines she has earned my admiration and my respect as well as a bit of scorn and plenty of jealousy. My only conclusion after finding out is that she has raised the bar so high i'll need to become gaming's version of a pole vaulter if I ever want to reach such a loty height. Instead of a crown prince in the line of succession I feel like the court jester with a serious inferiority complex. There isn't a performance enhancing drug anywhere on the black market that will help me overcome a 300 line lead like that.
Hats off to you Lori on an amazing record. May my jewel encrusted crown you stole turn your forehead green until you give it back to me.
http://www.twingalaxies.c...m/index.aspx?c=43&id=1457
Gaming history was made June 1st 2007 at the Funspot 9th Annual International Classic Game Tournament in Weirs Beach, NH when Steve Austin...err I mean Brian Kuh broke his previous world record of 16 coin-op records in one day by beating 17 this year.
Imagine the skill and endurance it would take not to mention the practice to set such a world record. Even playing that much coin-op in one day gives me tennis elbow and backache just thinking about it. Last years's record of 16 in one day had such notable games as Chase HQ, Paperboy, Super Sprint and Xenophobe among others with a combined points total of over 17 million points.
Fellow classic gaming record holder Billy Mitchell himself commissioned a poster to commemorate this remarkable achievement. At this point I think only Jaime Sommers or Lieutenant Commander Data could possibly match a performance like that. Hats off to you Brian, I think you've easily secured your place among gaming elite. Looking forward to hear about his exploits next year at Funspot's 10th Annual.
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