On February 8, 1998, Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records was published. Guinness sends letter to U.S. National Video Game Team, April 8, 1986, U.S. National Video Team Picks its Favorites, Vending Times, New York, NY, April 1, 1987, Video Game Masters Match Will Help March of Dimes, Vending Times, New York, NY, April 1, 1987, Video game champ buys 40 hours of play with 25 cents - Torrance Daily Breeze, Torrance, CA, July 12, 1987, "History's First Video Game Film Festival To Celebrate Gaming's Impact on Media and Culture", May 18, 2001, "Twin Galaxies Planning 2nd Video Game Film Festival", May 15, 2006, NintendoWorldReport.com, January 21, 2001, Video Game Festival at Mall of America, July 1, 2001, Classic Video Game World Championship Set for New Hampshire May 8, 2001, Classic Video Game World Championship Attracts the World's Best, May 26, 2002, Festival Marries Classics with CounterStrike, RePlay Magazine, Woodland Hills, CA, September 1, 2001, "New World Record In Joust Awaiting Certification", Cohesion Productions Releases FRAG - www.cohesionproductions.com, Twin Galaxies' Gallery of Posters, 1982-2008, "GameRankings - Video Game Reviews from around the Internet", http://www.strategyplanet.com/news/index.asp?month=1&day=5&year=2001, http://games.ign.com/articles/358/358789p1.html, http://www.gamersmark.com/news/2002/05/1/1371, "Video Games, News, Reviews, Walkthroughs, Cheat codes and More - Interact", http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php/topic,1884.msg23119.html#msg23119, https://infogalactic.com/w/index.php?title=Twin_Galaxies&oldid=3435674, Articles with dead external links from September 2010, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, About Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core. ... Day founded Twin Galaxies as an arcade in 1981 in Ottumwa… April 8, 1986; The U.S. National Video Game Team is authorized by the Guinness Book of World Records to organize contests.

Day closed his Ottumwa arcade in 1984 but continued his international score keeping activities through his company Twin Galaxies. [46][47], In July 2001 and 2002, Twin Galaxies conducted the annual Twin Galaxies' Video Game Festivals at the Mall of America, attracting approximately 50,000–75,000 attendees each year.[48]. During the summer of 1981, Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies incorporated, visited more than 100 video game arcades over four months, recording the high scores that he found on each game. In 1981, Walter Day founded the arcade “Twin Galaxies” in Ottumwa.

In 2007, a film about Twin Galaxies and video game champions in the 1980s, Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade, was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. Founder Walter Day left Twin Galaxies in 2010 to pursue a career in music,[16] and since then ownership of Twin Galaxies has changed hands several times. The players selected by Twin Galaxies for the Circus are believed to be history's first professionally contracted video game players. Twin Galaxies/"ABC-TV's "That's Incredible", Lake Odessa, MI/Omaha, NE/Chicago, IL/San Jose, CA/Seattle, WA, 1997 Video Game & Pinball Masters Tournament, Fairfield, IA/Wilmington, NC/Edmonton, AB, Canada/Voorhees, NJ/St. The goal of the Iron Man competition was simple: competitors had to continue playing their game for as long as they could. Winds SW at 5 to 10 mph.. Mostly clear. “We have notified Guinness World Records of our decision.”. [12][13][14], In 1988 the Guinness Book of World records stopped using Twin Galaxies as a source.[15]. [10], In March 1983, Twin Galaxies was contracted by the Electronic Circus to assemble a professional troupe of video game superstars who would travel with the Circus as an "act." Credits, Media/Business Inquiries McVey himself is recognized as the world’s first video arcade billion-point scorer, and spent time with Mitchell growing up. Twin Galaxies closed in 1984. November 15, 1983; Ottumwa Proclamation to the People of the Country of Italy, November 15, 1983].

Twin Galaxies is an American organization that tracks video game world records and conducts a program of electronic-gaming promotions. The plaque was unveiled August 16, 2015. Twin Galaxies, the thirty-year-old company that kept the gaming records and moved to Denver in 2012, has disappeared. Attraction status, hours and prices change without notice; call ahead! Sign up now to get our FREE breaking news coverage delivered right to your inbox.

July 25, 1983; The Team founded in Ottumwa, Iowa by the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard with Walter Day as Team Captain. However, he earned back forty of them.