Reminding me of a scene from Chuck Vs Tom Sawyer the longest standing record in video game history has fallen. 27 years Scott Safran set the score of an incredible 41,336,440 points during a three day session.
You see the thing with Asteroids is that, unlike Missile Command in Chuck, there is no kill screen – it just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on. Once you’ve got the fundamentals of the gameplay down Asteroids is more about endurance than anything else (Oh and an old machine not glitching up and crashing).
On Saturday an American by the name of John McAllister sat down and started playing, by Monday morning he had racked up the awesome score of 41,338,740 (all of it could be seen on Justin.tv).
Every so often, when he had enough extra lives, he would get up walk around, grab a sandwich or answer a call of nature (Indeed one call saw him drop to only two lives left) but this is a monster effort. Once the guys at Twin Galaxies confirm the details then it will all be official. I guess the question is not so much “will the score ever be beaten” but more a case of “will anyone ever bother to try again”
For the record lets mention that the previous holder Safran is no longer with us to reclaim his title. Unfortunately he died in 1989 whilst attempting to rescue his cat.
