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Achievement Unlocked: Seattle Locksmith Breaks Asteroids High Score Record

by Jeff Mattas, Apr 07, 2010 12:40pm PDT

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After playing for fifty-eight consecutive hours on a 1979 Atari classic Asteroids arcade cabinet, Seattle locksmith John McAllister managed to achieve the highest score ever recorded for the retro rock-shooter.

Tallying an impressive 41,338,740 points during a grueling play session that ended at 10:18 PM on April 5th, Kokugamer reports that McAllister narrowly trumped previous champ Scott Safran's record of 41,336,440 points -- a record that stood for twenty-eight years.

Check out the brief video below, wherein McAllister chats about his achievement with local Seattle TV network KGW, or spend the next fifty-eight hours (give or take) trying to relive his impressive (and arguably masochistic) journey to high-score fame with this browser-based port of the space-rock-murdering simulator.

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I actually watched the last few hours of this on the live stream they had running. It was pretty interesting to see and you could tell he was really getting worn out at the end. When I started watching it was taking him about five minutes per 100k, but by the end that was closer to ten minutes. Around the 41 million mark (give or take 100k) he took a bathroom break and lost a ton of lives and was actually down to two lives left with 100k to go.

Apr 07, 2010 12:43pm PDT

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I actually watched the last few hours of this on the live stream they had running. It was pretty interest... : Evil Benius
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  He didn't have a bucket handy? Clearly the record will be broken again by someone with a bucket. : Rape.Farm
- haha holy crap : ThomW
- bathrooms are for chumps! : tunis5000
- So, can this really be called 58 "consecutive" hours if you're not dropping a deuce in your pants? : beatbox32

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Speaking of crazy retro gaming, have you guys seen this guy OWN the hell out of a tetris acrade?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kqKOlcaZuI\

Blows your mind that there's a human beeing that is at so much higher mental level than you.

Apr 07, 2010 4:58pm PDT

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Speaking of crazy retro gaming, have you guys seen this guy OWN the hell out of a tetris acrade? http:... : Fpsnut
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- LINE PIECE!!! : Lucien Irenicus
- Yeah but it's a shitty version of tetris which lets you hold pieces for later and manipulate the blocks l... : yossapw

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Do Missile Command next!

Apr 07, 2010 1:40pm PDT

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Do Missile Command next! : TheQuad
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- Check out the 2006 short documentary called "High Score" (it's on Hulu) about a guy who tried to break th... : calculon68

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Go Seattle!

Apr 07, 2010 1:32pm PDT

Go Seattle! : pun][sher