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Robbie Lakeman is a competitive video game player who holds the world record for the arcade games Donkey Kong (1981), Stratovox (1980), and Super Pac-Man (1982). [1] He also formerly held the record score for the 1976 arcade game Death Race.
Selling over 200,000 cabinets worldwide, "Street Fighter II" established Capcom as a major player in the arcade industry and this is thanks to the likes of Guile and Chun Li. Ms. Pac-Man (Bally ...
In Redmond, Washington, out-of-work engineer Steve Wiebe has purchased a Donkey Kong cabinet in hopes of achieving the world record. Using his mathematical knowledge to identify exploitable patterns in the game, Wiebe sets a new record of 947,200 points in 2003. He sends the tape to Twin Galaxies as evidence and becomes a Seattle celebrity. [2]
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." [3]
Apple II: ATR: Atari 8-bit computers: Arcade: Arcade video game: C64: ... Players control individual tanks, ... Heroes of World War II. 2006:
Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection 2 is a compilation of arcade video games either made by, or acquired by Midway Games for the PlayStation and Windows. This game is technically the sequel to Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits , which also had Midway acquired games included, also released on the PlayStation.
Atari, Inc. was an American video game developer and video game console and home computer development company which operated between 1972 and 1984. During its years of operation, it developed and produced over 350 arcade, console, and computer games for its own systems, and almost 100 ports of games for home computers such as the Commodore 64.
The Video Game Masters Tournament was an event that was created in 1983 by Twin Galaxies to generate world record high scores for the 1984 U.S. Edition of the Guinness Book of World Records. [1] It was the most prestigious contest of that era and the only one that the Guinness book looked to for verified world records on video games at the time.