Thought this story was worth a laugh...in the spirit of The Shawshank Redemption and South-of-the-Border drug lords, 33 year old Steven Archer of Chuckey, TN set out on January 4 to dig a tunnel to gain access to his local GameStop. He was subsequently arrested for stealing $5,300 in games annd $300 in cash. Read the story here.
In other, much more exciting news, High Scores is the official location for the first ever CAGDC Donald Hayes Challenge. For those in our audience who are unaware, Donald is a premier classic gamer having recorded world records in a crazy amount of games - check out his stats here. As in before, Mark Alpiger of Classic Arcade Gaming Dot Com - and King of Kong fame (Donald, too!) will be running the event, scheduled for March 5-6, 2011. I'll be doing a more comprehensive post in the days to come but please follow the links to the official contest page for the most up to date info!
Look forward to welcoming participants and spectators alike!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
High Scores Congratulates Hank Chien!
The competition that will never die! Hank Chien stole back his world record on Donkey Kong with a score of 1,068,000. We remember Hank when he was still playing on MAME - he's a great guy and High Scores congratulates him on a great game!
All three world-record holders (Hank, Billy, and Steve) plus a handful of truly extraordinary DK players will be battling it out live for the world record at Richie Knucklez Arcade in Flemington, NJ on March 19-20, 2011. Check it out here!
All three world-record holders (Hank, Billy, and Steve) plus a handful of truly extraordinary DK players will be battling it out live for the world record at Richie Knucklez Arcade in Flemington, NJ on March 19-20, 2011. Check it out here!
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Real-Life Frogger Turns Bad
A 23-year-old in Clemson, S.C., was recently hospitalized because he was hit by an SUV attempting to play a real-life version of Frogger, a la Seinfeld. Click here to read the story.
I find this to be an unbelievable news story, but not because he got hit. What I want to know is, who are these 23 year olds who like Frogger? We see a lot of early 20 somethings walk through the door begging for directions to the Tekken and Street Fighter machines - to date, I've never seen one jonesing for a game of Frogger, or any classic game for that matter. They don't know what they're missing!
I find this to be an unbelievable news story, but not because he got hit. What I want to know is, who are these 23 year olds who like Frogger? We see a lot of early 20 somethings walk through the door begging for directions to the Tekken and Street Fighter machines - to date, I've never seen one jonesing for a game of Frogger, or any classic game for that matter. They don't know what they're missing!
Monday, December 27, 2010
New DK High Scores...Hours Update
Hello and Happy Holidays!
As 2010 is winding down, our scoreboard is heating up...Check out Randy Y's (YEG) newest update to the High Score board - upping his own existing score to an impressive 505,200!
Also, as Shawn and I will both be away from our "day jobs" this week (and in light of the holiday schedule) we have some flexibility in our hours. We will be open on Thursday, December 30 from 6-10 pm and Saturday, January 1 from 2-10 pm. If you're thinking of visiting Burlington and doing some gaming on another night, give us a ring (609-396-3083) and we just might be open! Hope to see you!
Meg
As 2010 is winding down, our scoreboard is heating up...Check out Randy Y's (YEG) newest update to the High Score board - upping his own existing score to an impressive 505,200!
Also, as Shawn and I will both be away from our "day jobs" this week (and in light of the holiday schedule) we have some flexibility in our hours. We will be open on Thursday, December 30 from 6-10 pm and Saturday, January 1 from 2-10 pm. If you're thinking of visiting Burlington and doing some gaming on another night, give us a ring (609-396-3083) and we just might be open! Hope to see you!Meg
Friday, December 24, 2010
High Scores has BRAND NEW games! We're OPEN 6-10pm on December 25th, Christmas Day!
Peace!
Come join us for some Winter Solstice gaming on Saturday, December 25th from 6pm-10pm. High Scores will be premiering 4 BRAND NEW titles- Sega's Turbo (1982), Midway's final arcade game THE GRID (2000), Off-Road THUNDER (1999) an amazingly fun sit-down driving title, and The High Scores Game-of-the-Month cabinet which currently features the original Soul Calibur (1999) and will have a new game switched in monthly- always playable for only 25cents. Donkey Kong is also back from restoration and will be back on the floor for competitive play!
See you soon!
Come join us for some Winter Solstice gaming on Saturday, December 25th from 6pm-10pm. High Scores will be premiering 4 BRAND NEW titles- Sega's Turbo (1982), Midway's final arcade game THE GRID (2000), Off-Road THUNDER (1999) an amazingly fun sit-down driving title, and The High Scores Game-of-the-Month cabinet which currently features the original Soul Calibur (1999) and will have a new game switched in monthly- always playable for only 25cents. Donkey Kong is also back from restoration and will be back on the floor for competitive play!
See you soon!
Saturday, December 11, 2010
OPEN 7-10 pm tonight and 6-9 pm tomorrow...come and visit!
Current Guiness Book of WR TRON High Score holder David Cruz paid us a visit last night to grace our TRON machine. He left with a custom TJ Reddick TRON painting to join his machine at home!
Good luck to all the gamers playing at Richie Knucklez this weekend!
Come and join our mini-contest tomorrow from 6-9 pm!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Wacky Hours....and Contest Reminder!
Hello!
Naturally with such an awesome event at Richie Knucklez our hours will be a little wacky this weekend...open on Friday as normal, Saturday 5-10 pm, and Sunday 6-9 pm. Come and support Sunday's Mini-Contest! Don't want to compete...that's cool too! Come, play and watch!
Also...effective this week our Wednesday hours are going away...we'll resume opening Wednesdays in late March when its warm enough to walk around!
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