Subject:      National Arcade Contest
From:         wday@telegroup.com
Date:         Fri, 29 Nov 1996 16:41:08 -0600
Message-Id:   <849306471.24589@dejanews.com>
Newsgroups:   rec.games.video.arcade.collecting



To celebrate its 15th Anniversary, The Twin Galaxies Intergalactic  
Scoreboard is pleased to announce that the 1997 Videogame Masters  
Tournament will be held simultaneously in dozens of locations in North  
America on Saturday and Sunday, April 19-20, 1997. 
 
This is the famous high-score contest which was carried in the 1984-87  
editions of the Guinness Book of World Records. 
 
All classic arcade games, homegames, pinball, and a limited number of  
network games will be included in the competition.   
 
Since most participating arcades will feature recent games, classic  
players must band together in regional arcades filled with donated classic  
games in order to break old records. Players may bring their own copy of a  
game to a contest site to have their play witnessed and documented. 
 
To verify homegame scores, players must bring their game systems/ 
cartridges to a contest site to have their play monitored by a contest  
official. 
 
All classics games will be played on the difficulty settings established  
by Twin Galaxies in the early '80s. Settings for recent games are now  
being established. 
 
The results of the contest will appear in the Twin Galaxies Videogame &  
Pinball Book of World Records published by Sunstar Publishing LTD. The  
finished volume will be unveiled at the ABA Convention in Chicago on May  
30. 
 
Players may assist the contest in two ways: 
 
1. Help locate promotional-minded arcades willing to join the contest. 
2. Players can bring their classic games to a contest site.  
 
Email Walter Day at wday@telegroup.com