John's Asteroids Attempt

cyberfly · **Joined:** Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:17 pm **Posts:** 812

Looks like John will break the Asteroids WR by days end. Can anyone put the link on the TG's front page????????

d3scride · **Posted:** Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:45 pm

Yeah I'm kinda curious as to why there's no link up for it either.

John is at approx 35.7 million (48-49 hours played?). Another 8 or so hours until he breaks the record.

OriginalPSP · **Posted:** Mon Apr 05, 2010 5:18 pm

d3scride wrote:

Yeah I'm kinda curious as to why there's no link up for it either.

John is at approx 35.7 million (48-49 hours played?). Another 8 or so hours until he breaks the record.

Note: Editor-in-Chief is out of town right now.

Note: Someone who's typing this message spent 5 hours today contacting the press and getting media coverage to share in this... and it's finally taking. That is going to do more good for this than a link on the front page will.

cyberfly · **Joined:** Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:17 pm **Posts:** 812

Great work Patrick :!:

.....the internet has already pick up the story and is running live feeds.

ZIMMZAMM · **Posted:** Mon Apr 05, 2010 8:07 pm

I think because their focus is mostly on modern and Donkey Kong.

awesome job John!

PJ DiCesare · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:27 am

Just broke the record as of a few minutes ago. I couldn't load the actual JTV page, but I was watching from a mirror site.

Congrats John! Amazing score! I never thought I'd see the day when that score fell.

Mr. Kelly R. Flewin · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:29 am

41,338,740

This was beyond amazing!

This looks like last year was the warmup for Marathons and this year's going to be the cream of the crop!

Congratulations John!

Mr. Kelly R. Flewin

Ebo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:30 am

That was insane and beautiful. And now Furrer's gotta change his sig

Well done, John. I got to watch about 4 hours in total and it was amazing.

Mr. Kelly R. Flewin · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:33 am

Ebo wrote:

That was insane and beautiful. And now Furrer's gotta change his sig

HAHAHA! I totally forgot about his signature! Oh that's gonna be priceless!

Mr. Kelly R. Flewin

OriginalPSP · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 1:45 am

Huge deal... I actually got a call from India as it was ending from our founder Walter Day, who got word of it out there!

Great moment and if he never plays Asteroids again I won't blame him :p

ZIMMZAMM · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:40 am

Walter is still in India? damn. that is awesome!

Ebo · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:13 pm

My husband was annoyed with me for sitting and watching (even though I only watched the last two hours... I'd watched earlier in the day/day before, though). It was 28 years in the making - c'mon!

ZIMMZAMM · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 2:22 pm

I watched for a couple hours during the day on Monday. I found out about it on aurcade.com I was unable to watch the gameplay camera due to the lag, especially with all 3 videos playing at once. so, I just left the room view video on. which was fine. I had fun chatting with people and watching Bill give John a massage.

I loved how Bill quickly washed his hands after giving the massage. :lol:

TStodden · (as of 08.31.10 -- 3:15 PM CDT)

Press Linkage (snagged off Fark): http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/04/asteroids-record

Kotaku Linkage: http://kotaku.com/5510531/a-twenty+eigh ... re-crushed

KWG (Portland TV, W/ video Clip): http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Man-preli ... 75212.html

bigbee99 · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 6:16 pm

Super cool! Congrats John! I popped in to watch some of it from like 17-18 mil. I just amazed at the endurance.

B

BDP · **Joined:** Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:34 am **Posts:** 101

Simply Amazing. Way to go John!

ZIMMZAMM · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2010 11:11 pm

TStodden wrote:

KWG (Portland TV, W/ video Clip): http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Man-preli ... 75212.html

"one single uninterrupted game" - he did take bathroom breaks and stuff, right? well, I guess the game kept going

did they say it will take 2 months to verify? wow, that is crazy! why is that? because of the drug test or something? but, a drug test does not take that long.

awesome job John!
will we see you in August?

Megamatt79 · **Joined:** Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:05 pm **Posts:** 498

ZIMMZAMM wrote:

TStodden wrote:

KWG (Portland TV, W/ video Clip): http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Man-preli ... 75212.html

"one single uninterrupted game" - he did take bathroom breaks and stuff, right? well, I guess the game kept going

When he needed a bathroom break, he stepped away from the machine and shed a few lives until his return. It got a little scary towards the end, because he started to run alarmingly short on extra lives as a result of his final bathroom break. He recovered well shortly thereafter, but not without giving all of us onlookers quite the scare first.

TStodden · (as of 08.31.10 -- 3:15 PM CDT)

Like all marathon attempts, you rack up a crapload of lives... but staying under 255 or so (to prevent bit-rolling errors) before taking a break. The game (& video tape) just keeps running while your lives count drops down to a semi-manageable level.

The 2 month estimate is probably for the poor ref that has to verify every hour of video tape as Asteroids rules have an anti-leaching rule in it with UFO's.

RMacauley · **Joined:** Wed Apr 09, 2003 6:21 am **Posts:** 352

TStodden wrote:

The 2 month estimate is probably for the poor ref that has to verify every hour of video tape as Asteroids rules have an anti-leaching rule in it with UFO's.

Actually no. The rules for arcade Asteroids includes the following:

"Special Note: The TG board of directors has agreed that the technique of shooting down back-to-back command ships at the end of each stage has been deemed legally permissible and is not considered 'point scrabbing', after much consideration. This confirmation of TG's stance on this decision is dated 7/19/02."

Shoot saucers to your heart's content.

Cheers

Rob

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