Upcoming Twin Galaxies Event
posted in Video Game News by mfc on Jan 18th, 2004Walter Day from Twin Galaxies just wrote in to let us know about an upcoming event. Here's what he said:
- Video Game Player Promises Thousands of Dollars in Prize Monies to Players
Who Break Selected Video Game World Records
FAIRFIELD, IOWA - January 17, 2004 - Cash prizes have been promised for top
high-scores achieved during the course of the new year 2004. And the money
is coming straight out of Robert Mruczek's own pocket - nearly $3,000
dollars in bounties. Mruczek, who is most well known as Twin Galaxies' Chief
Referee, says: "I want to prime the pump and get players tackling old world
records that have not been beat in some time. I think its good for the
hobby."
What is a bounty? It is a cash reward promised to individuals who attain an
established goal in a designated time frame. In this case, the goals are
high score thresholds designated by Mruczek on many different titles on the
NES, SNES, Magnavox 2, Dreamcast, Playstation, PS2, X-Box, N-64,
Colecovision, Atari 2600 and arcade coin-op platforms.
"This is a very significant offer," says Walter Day, Twin Galaxies' Chief
Scorekeeper and editor of the forthcoming Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game
& Pinball Book of World Records. "Robert Mruczek is a devoted supporter of
the gaming hobby. In fact, he is one of the hobby's leaders in civic
activism, willing to put the needs of the hobby ahead of his own gain. The
only other player who has put his own money up to encourage competitive
playing was Billy Mitchell, who issued a famous poster in 1999 that offered
thousands of dollars in prizes for high scores on dozens of classic arcade
games from the early 1980s." To see Mruczek's list of bounties, go to http://www.twingalaxies.com
For more imnforamtion, Contact Walter Day at Twin Galaxies at (641)472-1949
or walter@twingalaxies.com
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