Twin Galaxies is the official supplier of video game scores to the Guinness World Records books.
Twin Galaxies is the world authority on player rankings, gaming statistics and championship tournaments, with pinball statistics dating from the 1930s and video game statistics from the early 1970s.
OUR HISTORY
In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, realised that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove popular. He was right!
Kong on the Strip
If you happen to be in Las Vegas this week and you’re looking for some glitzy Vegas-style video game world record-breaking action, The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino on March 5th between 6:00pm and 10:00pm is the place to be.
The game is Donkey Kong, and the challenge is for The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters co-star, Steve Wiebe, to beat 1,050,200 points achieved by legendary gamer and fellow King of Kong star Billy Mitchell. The rivalry between Wiebe and Mitchell is intense and if the high score is beaten it will be another chapter complete in an epic high score saga that has been running since Donkey Kong first hit arcades in 1981.
GWR:GE will reveal how Steve fared in his attempt when Twin Galaxies’ Walter Day reveals the result of the evening’s action right here this Friday...
Keith Pullin, Editor
4th March 2008