Why "Pull" classic Era Guinness Book High Scores when no wrong doing is found?
Mark Alpiger, (Crystal Castles Champion)
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Another High Score is pulled: Star Wars score by David Palmer
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Sunday, July 11, 2004 - 06:02 pm Walter Day Post to Funspot Classics
Regarding "Pulled" Star Wars Guinness Book High Score of
David Palmer from 1986 of which he is fighting to get score reinstated.
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For the record, here's how the David Palmer story goes:
When the book was finished by me in 1997, I saw the 31 million point
score by David Palmer and automatically presumed it was a marathon
score because of its high number. I deleted it because Palmer already
had a higher score, 108 million.
Many years later, Mark Longridge asked me why i disqualified the 31
million score. I said: "what are you talking about, he has a higher
score at 108 M!!" Mark said he believed the score was supposed to be
a TGTS score, not a marathon score.
The score was tabulated by the U.S. National Video Game Team after I
retired, so I had no working knowledge of the score. However, I felt
Mark Longridge was wrong at the time and never put any more thought
to it.
Now, David Palmer has surfaced and is preparing evidence. It appears
that I may have made a mistake in wrongly judging the score back in
1997. I appreciate the non-wavering attention other players have put
on this score, seeking its reinstatement. I would hate to see this
achievement not be recognized because of my mistake -- if it should
prove to be authentic.
Walter Day
November 8, 1982, LIFE Magazine visited Twin Galaxies to capture
sixteen of North America's best players in a group photograph.
Two months later, on January 9, 1983, ABC-TV's "That's Incredible"
came to Ottumwa, Iowa, to film nineteen of the worlds best players
competing in the first-ever video game world championship.
Here is a link to the original version
of this famous Life Magazine Article and Picture
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Surgery Results:
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The following link is the blow by blow on my surgery results, please take a look.
I have tried to explain the injury so others can get an idea of what it is
and to highlight the problems of such an injury:
http://spyhunter007.com/spy_medical_records3.htm
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