Those outside the walls of the typical competitive gaming communities may or may not know there are often high score controversies that don't involve Donkey Kong, gummy substances and movie clips. More often than not there is discussion about the legitimacy of early 1980s scores, correct settings or people claiming they can do better than an officially listed record without actually proving it.
Recently, the original Street Fighter arcade game had a new champion crowned over at Twin Galaxies. Not Street Fighter II or any of it's thirty-five dozen sequels and variants, but the original 1987 arcade game that pre-dated the whole fighting game craze by many years.
Prior to a recent submission there was no champion crowned at Twin Galaxies on this original arcade title. The original Street Fighter release took place during a period where Twin Galaxies was in limbo and only in recent years was a category created that would allow gamers to take aim at the title.
With that, Grass Lake, MI's Jesse L. King was recently announced as the first officially recognized champion on the arcade version of Street Fighter with a score of 100 points. No, that is not a typo. En route to being crowned the first-ever champion, King literally landed one punch and stopped playing, filming everything that needed to be filmed to submit a score and mailed it in.
By comparison, the highest score on Twin Galaxies for Street Fighter on the MAME emulator is 734,300 points with a score of 52,600 points in last place on that version.
Reaction to the 100-point "World Record" score has been mixed. Some gamers found humor in the submission while others stated they feel the lack of effort to be a slap in the face of other world record scores. In a public post on the Twin Galaxies message boards, King states that the score was set in an effort to draw attention and competition to a game title that didn't have any.
What do you think? Did Jesse King just troll the idea behind the Twin Galaxies scoreboard at the expense of other legitimate world record holders or will the 100-point "record" serve to spark competition in a manner nobody else has done before?
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