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    Asteroids

    Game » consists of 23 releases. Released November 1979

    Atari's bestselling game of all time, Asteroids was one of the most influential releases of the Golden Age of Arcade Games. One of the first space shooters, it was the inspiration for many of the dual stick shooter games of the modern era, Geometry Wars chief among them.

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    #51  Edited By Blackmoore

    Congrats! He beat it.

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    #52  Edited By Aussiepowa

    he did it
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    #53  Edited By mikenam

    Freakin A, I just missed it

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    #54  Edited By Daveyo520

    I've never seen someone break a world record before. It was something.

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    #55  Edited By Gloobus

    That was pretty awesome.  I tuned in about 2 minutes before he beat the high score. Kinda neat witnessing a record of such a classic game being broken live.

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    #56  Edited By thenexus

    Lots of people in the chat keep spamming -  "HAHAHAHAHAH HE DIDNT BEAT THE RECORD THEY MISCOUNTED AHAHAHAHA"

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    #57  Edited By Scooper

    I hit play literally just as people clap his victory. What the hell.

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    #58  Edited By mikenam

    Hopefully there will be a quick replay somewhere on Giant Bomb

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    #59  Edited By bigsmoke77
    @Andre: he probably thought "if anybody wants to stay up and play this game for two and half days. more  the power to them"
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    #60  Edited By Crono
    @thenexus said:
    " Lots of people in the chat keep spamming -  "HAHAHAHAHAH HE DIDNT BEAT THE RECORD THEY MISCOUNTED AHAHAHAHA" "
    This is surprising?  A person's inner douche bag loves the internet.
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    #61  Edited By Hot_Karl

    He did it! 
     
    Mr. McAllister, you have the respect of all the duders here. Asteroids is a hard son-of-a-bitch game, and to get over 41 million points is a remarkable achievement. Congrats!!

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    #62  Edited By Rebirth1337

    I was there! Thanks Jeff for posting this.

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    #63  Edited By zymase

    This is likely the high point of my day.  Awesome!

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    #64  Edited By TheHT

    Asteroids? lol alright, i respect that.

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    #65  Edited By sodiumCyclops

    Well done! Cheers for me evening highlight Jeff.

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    #66  Edited By dezvous

    Weird, what is it about the 41,33#,### range that gets so tough? I mean you'd think if you came that far you might as well try really hard to obliterate the previous record.

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    #67  Edited By thomasmolby

    Thats amazing :)

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    #68  Edited By Winternet

    Well, I am now waiting for the attempt to break 42 million. Anytime soon, right?
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    #69  Edited By sho76und3wd

    Awesome.  High scores are fun!

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    #70  Edited By Bilawal

    What's an Asteroid????? :S

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    #71  Edited By KillerBears

    still waiting on the film version of Asteroids

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    #72  Edited By Zella
    @dezvous said:
    " Weird, what is it about the 41,33#,### range that gets so tough? I mean you'd think if you came that far you might as well try really hard to obliterate the previous record. "
    He'd been playing for 50+ hours, I think he just wanted to stop.
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    #73  Edited By JoelTGM

    At one point super close to the record he came back from a bathroom break, lost focus and was down to two lives.  Asteroids is intense. 

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    #74  Edited By Milkman

    I could beat him.

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    #75  Edited By DystopiaX
    @Zella said:
    " @dezvous said:
    " Weird, what is it about the 41,33#,### range that gets so tough? I mean you'd think if you came that far you might as well try really hard to obliterate the previous record. "
    He'd been playing for 50+ hours, I think he just wanted to stop. "
    he'd been playing over 60 hours with only bathroom breaks...i'd wanna stop too.
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    #76  Edited By Brunchies

    I missed it sadly, anyway grats to the guy for being able to play over 50 hours of asteroids and setting a world record.

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