American Classic Arcade Museum "Frog-Off"

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American Classic Arcade Museum "Frog-Off"

The "Frog-Off" started today at the American Classic Arcade museum at 1pm. This event features the best two Frogger players in the world -- Pat Laffaye and Donald Hayes. The event is officiated by Gary Vincent, President of the American Classic Arcade Museum at Funspot, and Mike Stulir, ACAM Board of Directors. All game settings were verified by Robert Mruczek.

Attached are photos taken at the start of the contest. The first picture shows (from left) Donald Hayes, Bob Lawton of Funspot, Pat Laffaye, and Gary Vincent of The American Classic Arcade Museum.

In the second photo, Robert Mruczek flips the coin to decide which player picks the machine they wish to play on.

Updates will be published as the weekend goes on.

Mike Stulir
 

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The first set of games is finished. Both players are a bit "rusty" and are counting these games as a tune-up. Pat scored 183,180, and Donald scored 302,380.

We will be starting a new round shortly.
 

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There is a potential Frogger Kill Screen coming up if anyone is interested.

I knew it was only a matter of time before someone said that. :)

Best score so far today -- 736,170 by Donald Hayes. That beats his existing personal-best score by 40,000 points.
 
David Nelson, Richie Knuckles (in the background) and Jman waiting for the DK world record attempt
 

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Feverish action at the Frog off... they must have gone on break... or heard I was coming...lol It was actually awesome watching these guys play. I didnt want to take a picture while they played.
 

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He was just getting ready to make a serious attempt when i was leaving. They needed a TG ref there for him to do it. He was practicing doing what he needed in the early levels to be on track for 1Mill but would kill himself off after a certain point (500k) so he didnt waste a good game when the score wouldnt count.

He had a film crew following him around too... he is actually a real funny guy, very down to earth and actually seems to be enjoying the journey too. It is real easy to like him and pull for him. I actually hope he does it!
 
More photos

Here are some additional photos from the past weekend.

Gary
 

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Some more....

More photos from the weekend.

Gary
 

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The last of my photos :-(

The last of my photos. Well, the ones worth posting anyway......

Gary
 

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The last of my photos. Well, the ones worth posting anyway......

Gary

Hey Gary!

thanks for posting the 71,680 Seaside run for me. It was cool to actually finish the Seaside track with time left with all you guys watching. Not only did I catch it on video, but I had Tom Votava, Darren Harris, You, Mike, Pat Laffaye, Vic Osinaga, Ben Falls all cheering me on. It was a good time. I am gonna upload the vid to my pc over the holiday and post it online for sure!

thanks again for your hospitality bro

~Richie
 
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