High Scores Welcomes TRON!

After our long and arduous search, we finally welcome home a TRON machine practically just around the corner. Fellow KLOV member Bungy put a lot of great work into one he had in his garage, and it joined the High Scores family of games yesterday.

Shawn tells a heartbreaking story of when he was a little kid, he tried to get in on the TRON machine but all of the older kids were playing it and he couldn't get a chance. Its like the "when I was your age, I had to..." story but without the snow. Except for some cabinets we've seen here and there over the years, this is the first time he gets to play TRON, uninterrupted. Guess I'll see him in a few months or so.

Hope to see you soon!

Meg

August 28 High Scores

Weekends are the times for erasing and renewing the High Scores Board as skilled gamers come through the door. It started with Phillip B (FIL), who put up a 17,250 in Star Castle. He also bumped up his own record on Joust with 118,000. Nice job, Phillip!

Gary H (GDH) got a 6,072, finally replacing the default score we set for our 4 Aces Pinball, which no one has even come close to getting.

Mike W (MRW) always sneaks in the door and ends up with his name on the board. He now holds the Donkey Kong High Score with 316,800, Pac Man with 161,080, and Ladybug (a new addition to the board) with 212,060. Here he is in the picture showing off :)

New Artwork from TJ Reddick

TJ came around and delivered some ridiculously cool new artwork. We now have designs inspired by Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders, Pac Man, Dragons Lair, Joust, Frogger, QBert, Tempest and Tron. They are all painted with fluorescent oil on canvas, and show up really cool under blacklight. All of TJ's pieces are also for sale!

$50 for the small and $150 for the large!

I have to admit, I did feel a little badly for the girl that wanted to play Donkey Kong yesterday. She had her heart set on playing on the dedicated cabinet (rather than on one of the multicades), and I had to tell her that this was sometimes just the way it goes - we couldn't interrupt Randy Y. (YEG), I saw that he was on a mission.

And on a mission he was, breaking the High Scores record for Donkey Kong with a score of 306,200. Congratulations to Randy!

Also wanted to spread the word about the upcoming 2010 Classic Arcade Gaming Dot Com (CAGDC) World Record Tournament, scheduled for Saturday, September 25 at Richie Knucklez in Flemington, NJ. We were talking to Mark Alpiger (of King of Kong fame, as he likes to say :) ) earlier today about the possibility of High Scores being an official qualifying location to practice for the tournament...the game list is still up in the air, but so far we feature a lot of the contenders in our selection.

Hope to see you guys soon - open again on Wednesday!

Spotlight on Spanish Eyes

Hello all! We keep gaining more and more fans from the streets of Burlington coming to try their hand at competition. Our first weekend open, Sonnie Boy came through and set his score up on the board for the Spanish Eyes pin. Every day he checked to see if his name was still up...yesterday he visited to find out that Bill W came around and made Sonnie's score history with a new High Score of 93,820. Spanish Eyes is a pretty challenging pin, so we're impressed!
We've added some new names to our High Scores "Rookie Board" as well; some are re-polishing their skills that were dusty since the 80's, while others are discovering these games for the first time. Frequent visitor Anthony F. nailed his name up on Championship Baseball and continues to improve on Track and Field, while Stacey works his way up on DK Jr. Proving to be a strong player on most games, Philip had his best score yet on Donkey Kong.

Hoping to see some new scores broken this weekend - we'll keep you posted!

HOLY SH*T! A Kill Screen at High Scores!

Whew! What an awesome day at High Scores. Our new friend Sam (ZAZ) visited us from PA and totally shook down the score board. Sam is a world-class player who is trying to discover the kill screens for all of the different variations of Pac-Man that exist out there. He started his visit out by trying his hand at a little Galaga, and by setting a 98,700 on Mr Do and then, and then....

Then - God help us - he moved on to play the best Ms Pac Man (turbo) game I've ever seen in person - 2+ hours of play on one credit, complete with a kill screen and an overall score of 871,710. We're hoping that Sam will submit his scores officially some day, as this score would have taken #2 in Twin Galaxies. We are so honored to have welcomed such a talented player into our spot. Check out the video here.

Even more fun is that he had about 5-10 people crowding around his game to watch, lots of fun to introduce that level of awe and competition to the little kids who all walk around talking smack because they can beat their friend playing Modern Warfare 2 online. Mike W. came around for some late night gaming and grabbed up the spot on the board for Star Castle at 13,010.

Thanks to all of our visitors tonight - its super sweet to be able to raise the bar on our score board a bit!
Meg

High Scores Board Update

Here is an update of the High Scores Board! Phillip B (FIL) came and clobbered Shawn's JOUST score-today- and took Greg B's Pacman score right away from him. He took it right away. Actually, Shawn says he saw Greg get a Pac-Man score over 100,000 last week at Richie's, so there is some competition to be had there! Myesha also took the current Ms. Pac-Man score down! No one has managed to get close to the World Record on KABOOM! quite yet, but there is a day left. We have seen some newly hatched retro gamers putting some surprising scores up on our Rookie Board (with respectable qualifying scores) and we will post the scores end of week. Special Thanks to Joe, Ron, Gary, and everyone who pitched in to help us have a great week! Meg and Shawn.