On April 15, 2011,George Leutz was hot on the trail of the nearly 30-year-old record in Q*bert when as Examiner reports, someone unplugged a nearby machine accidentally resetting the record attempt. Luetz had around 16 million points and hundreds of lives, on excellent pace to break the record of 33,273,520 record set by Rob Gerhardt in November 1983.

This is one of the coolest uses of cupcakes and gaming that I’ve ever seen. Some folks over at Steel Head Studio have created 100 gaming-related cupcakes, some from the board gaming-realm, but most from the wonderful land of videogaming.