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Fri Mar 26 23:56:52 1982
New World Record in "Defender" Set Today
BEAVERTON, OREGON (NOP) -- In totally unplanned effort,
16-year old Ron Schwartz set a new official world's record
for the Defender video game at 25,370,875 points in just
over 34 hours of play, thus toppling the old world record
of 24 million points. This new score has been submitted to
and verified by Williams Electronics, Inc., makers of the
arcade game, and will stand until somebody more masochistic
comes along.
Ron had no intention of setting out to break the record.
He was just stopping by his local 7-11 store to "waste
a quarter or two" and ended up staying for the day-and-a-half
that it took. He was allowed 5 minutes per each hour of
play for rest and food. He finally ended on attack wave
"2180 something" when his contact lenses were destroying
his eyes beyond his tolerance level. After 12 Coke Big-Gulps
and numerous assorted high-priced munchies, he was exausted
but happy.
His previous high score was only 1.3 million.
He found a number of bugs in the Defender software, including
a wraparound problem at 256 ships in reserve. It seems the
authors of the Defender program chose to put the number of
spare ships in a byte variable, and at 257, it wraps around
to only one ship!
When asked if he was going to go out and play again soon, he
said "not a chance". Evidently, he will "try to stay away
[from the Defender Game] for a month or two, to prevent
nightmares" about all the aliens coming at him. [I don't
blame him!]
[Submitted by Randal L. Schwartz, Ron's older brother]
["I taught him everything he knows. Now he knows more." -- rls]
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