Duncan Brown in May 1980 "Coin Connection"

I just received a few old "Atari Coin Connection"
newsletters, and spotted this in the May, 1980
edition:

Asteroids Champ

In the last issue of the Coin Connection, we
reported a high score on Asteroids of 1,000,000
points. Well, records were meant to be broken,
as the saying goes!

Duncan Brown of Charlottesville, Virginia,
broke that record on March 29. Duncan reported
that he played one game of Asteroids for
fifteen and one-half hours, scoring 7,200,620
points. When he quit playing, there were still
twenty-two extra ships left.

Duncan has been playing Asteroids since January
at Noel's Sub Shop and Game Room near the
University of Virginia. Before his record-breaking
game, Duncan had spent alot of hard-earned money
learning how to play Asteroids.

Duncan's Asteroids technique is much the same as
other expert players have reported. He leaves a
couple of small asteroids on the screen so that
the largers ones do not appear. He then places
his space-ship on the side of the screen and
waits for the enemy saucer to come out. The
player has a distinct advantage over the enemy
saucer because the saucer is usually not as
agressive as the player.

An Asteroids game modification is now available
to help cut down on excessive player game times.
This modification will make the enemy saucer
more agressive.
Received on Tue Dec 2 09:27:30 1997