The founder of world famous video game recordkeeping website Twin Galaxies, Walter Day, has confirmed in a new video interview that he has retired from the organization after more than 28 years.
Day founded Twin Galaxies in late 1981 in Ottumwa, IA, a small town where he had opened a video game arcade as an excuse to play games all day. Upon discovering that nobody was keeping track of world record video game scores, he offered to the game manufacturers of the day to do so, and within minutes began receiving phone calls from all around the world.
The Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa closed during the crash of the video game market in the mid-80s but Day continued to run contests and make plans. In 1997, Twin Galaxies re-emerged on the internet, containing the old arcade scores from back in the day along with new content from modern gaming consoles.
Today, Twin Galaxies still keeps track of World Record scores on games such as Donkey Kong and Frogger, but has also made considerable waves with score tracking on the Nintendo Wii, XBox 360, and PlayStation 3, including being the organization that will decide the winner of 2K Sports $1,000,000 contest on new baseball release MLB 2K10.
Twin Galaxies has also expanded to have staff stationed all over the world, including the United States, Canada, England, Europe, and others. Denton, TX is not only home to myself, one of Twin Galaxies Division Managers, but I'm just one of several staff members who have been stationed in Denton over the years.
Enjoy the video interview, done by the Twin Galaxies broadcast team.
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