Twin Galaxies

Overdrive · 08-17-2009, 03:36 AM

As many of you know since I've returned to Wire Forums, I've spent most of my time over at Twin Galaxies. The site is basically the official recordbook of video game and pinball scores. They're linked with Guinness Book of World Records, as well as we're now affiliated with the newly established World Wide Federation of Gaming.

Many people have thought that doing runs (for example) and putting them on the well known site of speeddemosarchive.com (The site still exists, just I don't think it's active really anymore) would call it officially a speed run - this is untrue. To be an official record, you'd have to go through Twin Galaxies submission process and the recording FAQ can be read here.

I've spoken to many people here in Winnipeg for example who are unaware of the name Twin Galaxies and many have immediately turned away and have just said, "it's just for the modern consoles", or "everything is too hard". Well actually Twin Galaxies tracks games all the way back to the Magnavox Odyssey to the modern day consoles, and even tracks the consoles that never really seemed to reach publicity or may have only released a few games. Also, many games don't even have a record at all - some games are completely in reach of records as well. Games like the recently released Wii Sports: Resort has many records that haven't been touched at all that simply display, "No Scores have been entered for this variation at this time. You could be the first person to set a record on this game!" All it really takes is a tiny bit of research to find a title of your interest, a bit of time to play the game, and then submit it with the instructions above.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask here, and I'll be happy to even find some records, specific variations, or if we currently track a certain title, or even something I may not have mentioned.