![]() That’s Incredible! held numerous televised video game competitions, starting with a Ms. Gamers like Eric Ginner became famous for competition wins. TIME Magazine put Defender champion Steve Juraszek front row and center. Books with strategies on Pac-Man made the New York Times Best Seller list. Newspapers around the country gave coverage to aces on Asteroids. It was a very big deal to be the resident Space Invaders ace at the local arcade or bowling alley. To really understand it is to know what it was like in the FIRST (not the only) “Golden Age of Video Games” in the late 70s and early 1980s. Today, in the wake of these “score scandals”, I’d like to talk a bit about what I experienced while there and even in the years following my resignation, all in an attempt to help people understand how a portion of that world seems to see it. I came out of it feeling that the whole thing was a lot of hype with very little substance. Without going too deeply into my experiences there, I went in thinking it was something really cool, thanks to what I read on their website and saw in various documentary films. The main question people have seems to go back to “why would a grown man lie about video game scores”?Īs I’ve noted here before, I worked for Twin Galaxies in various roles from October 2008 to February 2011. Allegations of cheating, working the system and more have been brought up to the forefront, scores have been stripped and more stuff related to it all seems to be on the way as of this writing. It’s been all over both gaming and mainstream media websites: Retro gaming champions such as Billy Mitchell and Todd Rogers have been under fire.
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