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.

Every gamer has heard of the legendary game Asteroids. It was released in 1979 and quickly became one of the most popular in the arcade. As people got better at the game they started amassing big scores and competing for the coveted high score position. Unfortunately that competition ended on 1982 when a 15 year old boy named Scott Safran set a record so huge that no one beat it for 28 years.

Last night, the impressive score of 41,336,440 was finally surpassed.

Guinness is giving any gamer the opportunity to break into the record books by breaking arcade gaming records at the 10th Annual International Classic Video Game and Pinball Tournament scheduled from May 29, 2008, to June 1, 2008, at the Funspot Family Entertainment Center in Laconia, NH.

Gamers who successfully tumble established arcade gaming records at the event will have…

Video games have changed the way we sing and dance, and perhaps for this reason the folks behind the reality series “So You Think You Can Dance” organized a huge video game dancing event. A hundred dancers simultaneously got down on dance pads from the popular dancing game Dance Dance Revolution Universe 2 May 19, 2008, at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angles, CA.

When they were through with their dancing session groovin’ to “Funky House” by DJ Diod and “Progressive Mix” by DJ Hill for 9 minutes and 28 seconds, they had set a new record for the…

OK, here’s the deal. There’s a guy who can not only beat “Through the Fire and Flames” on expert on Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, but he can get 97% of the notes and get a streak over 1000. In the immortal words of Stan Lee: “ ’nuff said.”

A 16-year-old boy from Rochester, Minn. (USA) by the name of Chris Chike won a tournament where apparently all the contestants were true guitar heroes, as all of them had to play “Through the Fire and Flames” on expert. His victory got him the Guinness World Record for…

The Boston Herald online recently published a tease of the upcoming gamer’s edition of Guinness World Records, due out in March. The book will be the very first all-gaming edition, and will launch on March 11, 2008.

Among the morsels mentioned in the article was the heated competition between Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell for the top Donkey Kong score (the drama that was so perfectly examined in the recent film The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters), along with some of the more impressive sales records (the original NES Super Mario Bros. and Halo 3 are in that category).

The King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters is a rare achievement: a genuinely good videogame film. Directed by Seth Gordon, the documentary follows nice-guy Steve Wiebe as he challenges the ultimate Donkey Kong score (and ego) of Billy Mitchell, the self proclaimed king of classic arcade games.

The film is by turns hilarious and touching. Seth Gordon has a light touch with all the humor. Overly serious arcade gurus like Mr. Awesome and eccentric Twin Galaxies creator Walter Day get played for gentle laughs, while the real zingers are aimed at Mitchell’s inflated sense of self. At one point, he even exclaims, without a hint of irony, “When I talk, it brings controversy. It’s like the abortion issue.”

It’s clear that…

Trying to break arcade records is certainly nothing new. Since the earliest days of arcade games, millions of quarters have been plunked into those boxy behemoths for the chance to flick a joystick and get a triad of initials forever burned into the top of the screen. Very few, however, have been lucky enough to get their high scores in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Making way to select theaters on August 17, 2007, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a documentary about two gamers competing for the highest score in the classic arcade game, Donkey Kong. The film’s site gives a quick synopsis of the movie, which follows…