Tag: TwinGalaxies

Joerg Droege aka Nafcom talking about C64 and games preservation with TwinGalaxies in an interview

Joerg Droege aka Nafcom was interviewed for @TwinGalaxies by Alex McCumbers, thanks to Jesse Collins for making it possible! His take on the topic C64 can be read here, containing a lot of information about preserving computer games and video games and its history included: C64 Mini Analyzed Plus Retro Gaming Discussion with Joerg Droege of Scene World

Billy Mitchell’s records for Donkey Kong have been removed from Twin Galaxies and the Guinness Book of World Records after dispute decision

As we reported earlier, there has been a long ongoing dispute by TwinGalaxies community whether some of the records in the database are true or not. After Todd Rogers being removed, now the Donkey Kong scores of Billy Mitchell also have been removed from Twin Galaxies and the World Records book . In a public statement 2 days later Billy…

Fairfield Man Inspired Spielberg’s READY PLAYER ONE film — worldwide release tonight. Premiere party in Iowa City

Via Facebook, Walter Day posted: Fairfield Man Inspired Spielberg’s READY PLAYER ONE film — worldwide release tonight. Premiere party in Iowa City: Read more at: http://www.ottumwacourier.com/news/local_news/local-icon-cited-as-inspiration-for-spielberg-film/article_01024c38-32f7-11e8-8e89-bbd5d5ff8094.html   Scene World Magazine also did an interview with Walter Day from TwinGalaxies once: https://sceneworld.org/blog/2015/02/12/video-interview-with-walter-day/

The fake records dispute goes on at TwinGalaxies: Now Billy “Gamer of the century” Mitchell is in the cross-hair.

Update: Feb 4th, 2018: There is a detailed discussion about this on the Donkey Forum (Thanks to Twitter user @5ickan for the hint!) After TwinGalaxies banned Todd Rogers from the hiscore list, now they are on researching whether Donkey Kong pro player and “perfect Pac-Man” player “Billy Mitchell” is also involved in cheating. as Twin Galaxies’ editorial team reported yesterday…

Twin Galaxies: Dragster Designer David Crane Has No Doubts Of Todd Rogers’ Record

Scene World helped Twin Galaxies to get information out of the archives of Activision by putting them in touch with David Crane, one of the founders of Activison and pioneer in video game coding and designing! As a result of this support, Twin Galaxies recently published an article entitled “Dragster Designer David Crane Has No Doubts Of Todd Rogers’ Record”…

Jesse Collin’s interview in Games Talk Live now available as a recording!

Jesse Collin’s interview in Games Talk Live now available as a recording! Jesse is Head of Editorial – Twin Galaxies and organizer and founder of the POWER-UP DIGITAL GAMES CONFERENCE in which Nafcom from Scene World had a talk recently, too. The Interview was about “Gaming Disorder: Legitimate or an Excuse for Laziness?” and other guests : Dr. Hilarie Cash…