RE: Duncan Brown in May 1980 "Coin Connection"

G'day folks,

Oh come one...we all know what really happened. Duncan reprogrammed
that Asteroids! 8^) 8^) 8^)

                Steven S Ozdemir
                sso@dsc.com

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>From: aek@goonsquad.spies.com[SMTP:aek@goonsquad.spies.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 1997 9:27 AM
>To: vectorlist@goonsquad.spies.com
>Subject: 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 09:32:59 1997