![]() "We bought that machine in 1980 and it's been here ever since," notes arcade manager Gary Vincent. True to his word, Jon Stoodley, featured in RG 59, spends just under five hours setting a new British Pac-Man record of 3,227,000, reaching the mythical split screen and beating the score he set in 1983 by exactly 6,000. The best part, though, is encountering all these larger than life characters that do amazing things, like spending ten hours on a single quarter."Īh, we almost forgot about the tournament, a challenging event requiring players to put in their best scores on 15 machines, from Crazy Climber to the obscure Cheeky Mouse, That's partly because we're distracted by one of our British contingent doing amazing things. "The tourney is fun but I just love being in this arcade, playing the machines. "No, I still don't drink, smoke or take drugs and yes, I'm still addicted to videogames," he laughs, referring to his memorable quote that opened the King Of Kong film. We watch Todd Rogers trying to shave a tenth of a second off his Drag Race record and check that Adam Wood hasn't relapsed. He's trying to get there himself, and comes agonisingly close. There's Brian Kuh, who this time isn't telling all who'll listen that there's a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up. Key scenes from The King Of Kong and Chasing Ghosts were shot here, and faces from the big screen are everywhere. Intriguing.īut then, wandering along the aisles here, it can feel like you're on the set of a movie. "You can tell when he's lying: his lips move." A veteran of the scene and still setting records today, Dwayne proceeds to tell me about his forthcoming documentary, Triumph Of The Wilt The Perfect Fraudman The King Of Con And Other Arcade Legends, which will reportedly tell the truth about who really got the first perfect score on Pac-Man and who's cheating on Donkey Kong. "That pagan f*****," whispers Dwayne 'Nibbler Richard in my ear. I'm chief evangelist, looking for the ethereal possibilities for Twin Galaxies." ![]() "What do I have to offer? Only my vision, which wafts and waves and wanders around the higher range of possibility and potentiality and creative embellishment, if you will. "Smarter people than me are now running Twin Galaxies," he explains, gesticulating wildly, as if defending his beard from bees. Eugene Jarvis's mighty triumvirate of Robotron, Defender and Stargate, all in a row the shimmering vectors of Atari's Grayitar and Major Havoc and ultra-rare treasures like Computer Space and Death Race.Īmong the avenues of arcade cabs, we spy another unique exhibit: Walter Day. Here, you'll be dazzled by almost 300 classic games from the Golden Age. Now they just play all the arcade games you remember from your childhood and plenty you've only read about, for while Funspot is a glorious mixture of old and new - downstairs, rows of networked Daytona 2 cabs sit comfortably alongside vintage Fifties slot machines - RG readers will want to head up to the third floor, which houses the American Classic Arcade Museum. My dad wouldn't let me come to places like this when I was a kid - people swore and smoked." "Coming in here I was blown away," says Brett from Toronto, Canada, half of 8-bit band Boss Fight.
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