DreamTR
Well-known member
No one is arguing that his score should've counted on TG. It's just a great score that's worth calling attention to.
Frankly the TG score verifying process is one of the dumbest things on the planet. Always was, and for some reason still is. And why anyone would want to go through that hilariously labyrinthine process when so many early high scores are clearly phony is beyond me.
And just to be clear, this was done on an original dedicated Galaga board, with a high score kit installed. Installing the kit doesn't suddenly bend time and space and morph the board into one of those tv plug n play joysticks. If he actually did want to submit to TG, the kit could easily be removed, and the original Galaga pcb would still be sitting there, no "new opened track" necessary.
You are 100% correct. Jumping through hoops upon hoops for some of the scores is crazy. Many years back (about 15-20 years or so) there were events where you could put up scores (which made way more sense) that would be verified by referees and confirmed by a TG rep on location during a 3 day period (Funspot among other places did this).
I know not everyone can do this but I guess if you want your name in the record book you have to go through this rigorous process.
I don't stream myself and I don't care about the attention. If I get a score and it is recorded at an event, great, but I play the games for my own personal goals/achievements, etc. For some reason I am just not as into it as other people are. I've always been pretty proficient at a lot of the games I play but I just don't like the attention it brings and time vested these days into people "watching" persay.
Granted now knowing that was 5 ships only at 5,000,000 that is a very very good score. This rule on the modified board thing needs to stop. These PCBs are 35 years old now.
