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		Twin Galaxies has been producing posters for events for nearly 25 years.
		Own merchandise that proudly displays these historic posters
	www.cafepress.com /galaxiesgifts (42 words)

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		And, according to the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game and Pinball Book of World Records, Doris was the oldest person to actively pursue video game world records, competing against gamers one-quarter her age.
		Next, in April, 2006, during a Twin Galaxies event called: Who's the Toughest Gun in the Dodge City of Video Games, Doris matched scores with her chief Q*Bert rival, Kelly Tharp of Indiana, who was less than half her age.
		Four Twin Galaxies referees (Robert Mruczek, Tom Votava, Adam Wood and Billy Mitchell), offer to pay out of their own pockets more than $20,000 in cash prizes for world-record high-scores on games as wide-ranging as today's Doom3 and Halo2 and all the way back to the NES, Colecovision, Atari 2600 and much more.
	www.twingalaxies.com /index.aspx?c=19&id=1398 (2522 words)

	Highwaygames.com - Boise to be Video Game Capital of the World
		Twin Galaxies’ plans to make a video game contest stadium in Boise were revealed today on the front page of the Idaho Statesman, Idaho’s premier newspaper.
		Twin Galaxies has not contacted the city's economic development council or the Chamber of Commerce, said Shirl Boyce, vice president of economic development for the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce.
		Twin Galaxies has held more than 90 competitions over the past five years at a variety of locations — Las Vegas, New Hampshire and the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., to name a few — drawing from 100 to 100,000 spectators, according to media reports.
	www.highwaygames.com /print.php3?news_id=1455 (655 words)

	Game Tunnel - Boise to be Video Game Capital of the World (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Twin Galaxies has held more than 90 competitions over the past five years at a variety of locations - Las Vegas, New Hampshire and the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn., to name a few - drawing from 100 to 100,000 spectators, according to media reports.
		Twin Galaxies continued to rank top players and Day was picked to edit scores for the 1984-1986 editions of the U.S. Guinness Book of World Records.
		Twin Galaxies is currently run by a handful of its shareholders.
	www.gametunnel.com /html/article325.html (1145 words)

	Cached.net - The place to get 0wned. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Twin Galaxies, the worldwide authority on player rankings, gaming statistics and championship tournaments, has announced the formation of a brand new invitational league, designed to create an organization that will cater to the Internet's community of Unreal Tournament (UT) players.
		Twin Galaxies, http://www.twingalaxies.com, is the on-line tournament leader, featuring a complete tournament and contest schedule with over fifty thousand dollars in prizes.
		Twin Galaxies has been keeping score for the world of video game and pinball players since 1982 and is recognized as the Official World Referee and Scorekeeper for the Interactive Entertainment Industry.
	www.cached.net /?go=main/columnarticle/single/89 (1101 words)

	Planet GameCube Forums - Win Money for High Scores
		Robert Mruczek, Chief Referee of Twin Galaxies, has promised cash bounties for proof of high scores on a set of classic (and a few modern) video games, including several games among the NES, Super NES, and N64 systems.
		Twin Galaxies is, after all, the leading authority and maintainer of video game world records.
		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.
	www.planetgamecube.com /forums/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=8248 (474 words)

	file:///d:/my documents/frontpage/back in time/Events/CD2000/FramePacMan.html
		For the fourth year, Funspot and Twin Galaxies have teamed up for the World Championships in coin-op videogames and pinball.
		When Twin Galaxies was invited to participate, their vision become the premiere classics contest in the world, drawing participants from the USA, the Middle East, Europe and Canada.
		Twin Galaxies is honoring the 1.5 million that Abdner achieved up to the point that the power went out.
	www.backntime.net /Events/Clas2002/Framec2k2-1.html (2024 words)

	Twin Galaxies Atari 2600 Timed Deca Final Results - AtariAge Forums
		And as is usual for a Twin Galaxies event, the competition was spirited and inspired.
		However, as he is a TG employee, the Twin Galaxies recognized 1st place winner for certificate purposes is Jonathan Ewing with 880.74 points.
		Note that the official Twin Galaxies ruling is that the game starts from the instant a gamer moves to the instant the grail is brought back to the gold castle AND the music starts.
	www.atariage.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=14564 (2682 words)

	Good Deal Games - Classic Videogame Games INTERVIEW - Walter Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Walter Day, founder of the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard, is the single authority in the world of competitive videogame playing, and is known as the official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing.
		Twin Galaxies was originally just an arcade in Ottumwa, with an additional location in Kirksville, MO. The name Twin Galaxies popped out of my head one day while driving in my car.
		Twin Galaxies became the scorekeeper when we tried to verify a local score and discovered that no one was keeping score for the industry.
	www.gooddealgames.com /interviews/int_Walter_Day.html (1100 words)

	Twin Galaxies: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Twin Galaxies: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic
		(his database of records was released publicly as the Twin Galaxies National Scoreboard.
		Twin Galaxies became known as the official scoreboard for many years, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tw/twin_galaxies.htm (400 words)

	CNN.com - Missing 'Asteroids' champ found dead in California - March 19, 2002
		Twin Galaxies, which has been keeping track of feats of video-game mastery since 1981, had been trying to find him ever since, in order to send him a certificate of merit.
		Twin Galaxies head Walter Day's quest ended in disappointment last week, however, as Safran's sister Marci Billow revealed that Scott fell off his California apartment's rooftop in 1989 while trying to round up his cat Samson.
		In lieu of presenting the Twin Galaxies reward to Safran, Day will instead give the certificate to his surviving sisters.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/TECH/fun.games/03/19/asteroids.champion.idg (258 words)

	Video Game Festival (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Once every couple of years Twin Galaxies come out with the Video Game and Pinball Book of World Records and now it's time for a new edition.
		July 20-22 in Bloomington, Minnesota the Twin Galaxies Video Game Festival is taking over.
		Twin Galaxies Video Game Festival is the place to be on July 20-22, 2001 at the Mall of America in Bloomington Minnesota.
	www.kidzworld.com /site/p1071.htm (340 words)

	HubbleSite - Hubble Reveals Stellar Fireworks Accompanying Galaxy Collisions - 10/21/1997
		The Hubble telescope has uncovered over 1,000 bright; young star clusters bursting to life in a brief, intense, brilliant "fireworks show" at the heart of a pair of colliding galaxies.
		The respective cores of the twin galaxies are the orange blobs, left and right of center, crisscrossed by filaments of dark dust.
		The sweeping spiral-like patterns, traced by bright blue star clusters, are the result of a firestorm of star birth that was triggered by the collision.
	hubblesite.org /newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1997/34 (178 words)

	News archives @ Classic Arcade Gaming (dot com)
		Twin Galaxies to establish headquarters in Boise, Idaho
		The score was originally 'pulled' (even after appearing in print in Walter Day's 1998 record book) a few years back, along with a number of others from the VGMT contests of the mid-80's (namely: Star Wars, Joust, and Robotron).
		His previous best of 21,849,650 (made 05-30-2003) was the Twin Galaxies official record, and his brother had the true world's record of 28,749,000 (set in the Spring of 2003).
	www.classicarcadegaming.com /news/archives/02thru05-2004.htm (1769 words)

	The CPL and Twin Galaxies Form Alliance
		The CPL and Twin Galaxies Form Alliance to Crown Champions
		The Founder and President of the CPL, Angel Munoz said: "We are pleased to become affiliated with Twin Galaxies because we respect their 22 years serving the industry as its official scorekeeper.
		Though this alliance focuses mainly on the current superstars of Unreal Tournament 2003, Half-Life Counter-Strike and other CPL championships conducted in recent years, Twin Galaxies will be looking to the CPL to produce the official champions on future titles to be released in the coming years.
	www.thecpl.com /press/tg.html (672 words)

	Donald Hayes beats Billy Mitchells classic high score Legacy
		The staff of Twin Galaxies congratulates Donald on his historic and inspirational 10 million point world record performance on the classic arcade title "Millipede".
		Donald played on what is known as Twin Galaxies tournament settings, or "TGTS", of hard difficulty and three (3) ships to start, with an extra awarded at a certain point threshold.
		Twin Galaxies proudly proclaims Donald Hayes as the new champion of "Super Zaxxon".
	www.spyhunter007.com /donald_hayes_beats_billy_mitchells_classic_high_score_legacy.htm (14047 words)

	Missing Asteroids Champion To Receive Posthumous Award - GamersMark
		When both Atari and Twin Galaxies moved offices in the early 1980s, all correspondence with Safran was lost and he could never be located again.
		The Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard, based in Fairfield, Iowa, has been keeping score for the world of video game and pinball playing since 1982 and monitors the highest scores on all home and arcade video games, PC-based games and pinball.
		Twin Galaxies also conducts an Annul Video Game Festival at the Mall of America in Bloomington, MN.
	www.gamersmark.com /news/2002/03/1/1000 (1059 words)

	PS1 News: Twin Galaxies to document stellar gaming feats.
		Entering its twentieth year of existence, Twin Galaxies, a firm well known for ranking the world's best videogame players, recently confirmed plans to release a monstrous compilation of its findings in a 1200-page volume of videogaming records and feats.
		Tournaments and competitions covered in the comprehensive log are exceedingly varied, and range from the 1982 Tron World Championships to the frenzied and highly competitive ladders of modern first person shooters, such as Quake III, Half-Life, and Unreal Tournament.
		Twin Galaxies plans to document each individual achievement, and ceremoniously crown each game's champion.
	www.psxextreme.com /scripts/news/new.asp?newID=168 (388 words)

	ScienceDaily: Seeing Double: Spitzer Captures Our Galaxy's Twin
		The targeted galaxy, known as NGC 7331 and sometimes referred to as our galaxy's twin, is found in the constellation Pegasus at a distance of 50 million light-years.
		Barred spiral galaxy -- A barred spiral galaxy is a spiral galaxy with a band of bright stars emerging from the center and running across the middle of the...
		Galaxy -- A galaxy is a huge gravitationally bound system of stars, interstellar gas and dust, plasma, and (possibly) unseen dark matter.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2004/06/040629015009.htm (1947 words)

	Universe Today - Our Galactic Twin (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Since we're inside our galaxy, many of its interesting features are shrouded by dust, so looking at NGC 7331 is like looking into a mirror 50 million light-years away.
		While these so-called twin galaxies do not share the same parents, they have many features in common, including number of stars, mass, spiral arm pattern and star-formation rate of a few stars per year.
		The Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey project is conducted by a team of about 25 scientists from 12 institutions, and is led by principal investigator Dr. Robert C. Kennicutt of the University of Arizona, Tucson.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/our_galactic_twin.html?2962004 (793 words)

	steve wiebe score not accepted
		Only one other gamer in recorded Twin Galaxies history, Bill Mitchell, has simultaneously owned world records on both "Donkey Kong" and it's sequel, "Donkey Kong Junior", so Steve is part of a very elite group of gamers for sure.
		Mruczek was the Twin Galaxies employee who viewed Wiebe's 2-hour long videotape in order to verify the legitimacy of the claim to the Donkey Kong title.
		As chief referee for the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard, I am very pleased to know that titles that are over 20 years old still have a very loyal following, and that gamers to this day are still trying their very best for personal records, and if they are good enough, world records.
	www.spyhunter007.com /steve_wiebe_score_not_accepted.htm (16477 words)

	Have a High Score to Share?
		Twin Galaxies invites the public to nominate players displaying stellar accomplishments for this volume.
		Twin Galaxies has been keeping score for the world of video game and pinball playing since 1981 and is recognized as the Official World Referee and Scorekeeper for the Interactive Entertainment Industry.
		After nearly 20 full years of judging the best there is behind the joystick and mouse, Twin Galaxies continues to sanction the contests, enforce the rules, and set the standard for competitive video game play on console, PC and arcade titles.
	www.winternet.com /~mr_n64/updates/feb01/021401.html (600 words)

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		Mike Mahaffey, Twin Galaxies' worldwide editor for Pinball, attended the big pinball championship in Golden, Colorado and has gathered pinball results on Stern's new hit pinball: The Lord of the Rings.
		One of Twin Galaxies' proudest and most respected traditions is our annual MAME decathlon, a grueling event in which 10 arcade titles are contested by a large number of participants over a period of time.
		Twin Galaxies, the worldwide authority on player rankings, game statistics, and championship tournaments, will be conducting a series of Classic Video Game Championships at the PhillyClassic5, March 20-21, 2004.
	www.twingalaxies.com /index.aspx?c=12 (1359 words)

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		Billy Mitchell, the first and only person known to play a perfect game of Pac-Man (he racked up a score of 3,333,360 after clearing all 256 levels in more than six hours in 1999, according to video game record keepers Twin Galaxies) says Pac's popularity was in its nonviolent simplicity.
		Boston Globe Magazine, Boston, MA Lori Baker broke the Gameboy Tetris DX World Record at Funspot IX, and Twin Galaxies and the Boston Globe Magazine were on hand to witness this important gaming event.
		Today, Twin Galaxies, the world's scorekeeper, is still looking for Ryan.
	www.twingalaxies.com /index.aspx?c=18&id=1104 (1236 words)

	ClassicGaming.com - An Interview with Walter Day (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In the world of competitive game playing there is a single authority: Twin Galaxies.
		Twin Galaxies is recognized as the only source of this information.
		Day: Twin Galaxies has created the nation's first Video Game Festival, which will be a celebration of all the different avenues of electronic gaming.
	www.classicgaming.com /features/articles/walterday (1095 words)

	CNN.com - Sci-Tech - Twin Galaxies seeks greatest gamers - February 13, 2001
		(IDG) -- Twin Galaxies has launched a worldwide campaign to identify the world's greatest computer gamers for all titles, genres, and game platforms by soliciting the help of fans and industry players across the globe to provide record-breaking scores and achievements.
		Twin Galaxies is inviting the public to nominate players with incredible skills for this volume.
		Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records will document over 20 years of contest results and world record scores, ranging from the results of the 1982 Tron World Championships to today's rankings on first-person shooter games like Quake, Half-Life, and Unreal Tournament.
	www.cnn.com /2001/TECH/fun.games/02/13/gaming.records.idg/index.html (351 words)

	Twin Galaxies Offers Bounties for Record Breakers - News at GameBattles
		Wednesday January 12, 2005 - Twin Galaxies, considered one of the main leaders in gaming world record statistics, is currently offering over $20,000 in cash prizes for those who can break the specified gaming records.
		The owner of Twin Galaxies, along with some of his fellow colleagues, chose the game selection based on their meaning to them over the years.
		If you are wondering how the owner of a small gaming website is going to pay off these cash prizes, he has stated that he will sell his company stock in the event that all of the bounties are claimed.
	www.gamebattles.com /news/20050112/204p1.html (194 words)

	BlogWorks: Twin Galaxies: Gaming's "Official Scorekeeper" Archives (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This month's Wired has a brief interview with Walter Day, the maintainer of the Twin Galaxies web site, who has become known as video gaming's official scorekeeper.
		Day began tracking video game high scores in 1981, and The Twin Galaxies site provides a wealth of information on competitive gaming and record high scores.
		The Twin Galaxies media archive has links to many of the news stories written about Day and/or Twin Galaxies in recent years.
	www.blogworks.net /blogarchives/2004/Oct/27/twin_galaxies_gamings_official_scorekeeper.html (286 words)

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