End of month high scores - 30 April 2013

My top 5 scores since comeback:

1.    684,970    7 April 2013
2.    617,430   27 April 2013
3.    563,580   25 April 2013
4.    542,990   25 April 2013
5.    539,460   20 April 2013

Fastest Act clearance - 14 seconds
Fastest Act clearance with 10,000 bonus - 27 seconds

Top 5 official Twin Galaxies high scores:

1.   1,217,650    Paul Hornitzky   10 July 2012
2.   1,110,370    Rodney Day      13 August 1983
3.     809,990    Kevin Leisner     25 February 1983
4.     723,950    Frank Lupia        20 September 2008
5.     694,030    Paul Elia             31 March 1983

 

And according to its website:

 

Twin Galaxies is the officially recognised world-wide authority on all video game high scores and world-records. Since 1982, Twin Galaxies has been the official scorekeeper for the entire world, charged with the responsibility of validating the world records on all electronic games and preserving the integrity of the industry’s repository of gaming statistics. Twin Galaxies is the only score-tracking organization recognized by Guinness World Records to be the official authority on all video game world records and high scores.

 

So, officially, Robert Leaf’s score of just 800 achieved on 21 March 2004 ranks 90^th in the world according to Twin Galaxies’ 90-strong list.

 

I’m scratching my head to work out how anyone with (presumably) the regulation five Pengos can only manage to squash two sno-bees in the first Act, or get some other permutation of 800 points. Even harder to understand is how that person would think it was such a great effort it should be submitted for inclusion among the highest Pengo scores in the world.

 

But he did and it was - and good luck to you, Mr Leaf.

 

And a similar acknowledgement to Quinten Rowland who scored an equally curious 830 points on 3 May 2009 to come in at 89^th on the all-time world’s best list.

 

Officially, you’re both ahead of me!