The highest score for Virtua Tennis is held by Jan-Erik Spangberg (Sweden) who clocked up a total of 44,000 on his way to achieving the highest score in the Exhibition (Los Angeles) singles mode of the Sega Dreamcast version of Virtua Tennis. Spangberg set the record on 14 February 2001 with the game set to “Very Hard” difficulty.
The highest score on Asteroids (Atari, 1979) is 41,838,740, achieved by John McAllister (USA), who played for 58 hours in an attempt verified by Twin Galaxies on 5 April 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011 The attempt was made possible by the fact that John is so skilled at Asteroids he was able to build up a reserve of 99 extra lives that allowed him to leave the game running while he took comfort breaks: even though his ship was repeatedly destroyed
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The highest score ever achieved on the high speed mode of Dr. Mario (Nintendo, 1990) is 1,599,900, achieved by Steve Germershausen (Canada) on 12 February 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
On 13 February 2008, Zach Robinson from Washington, USA, fought his way to an impressivescore of 1,987,420,900 points on the arcade version of Capcom’s Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (2000). The attempt was made on the hardest difficulty setting and conducted under strict Twin Galaxies tournament rules. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The highest score on Intelligent Qube (Sony, 1997) is 1,244,800, achieved by Phil Tesseneer (USA) and verified by Twin Galaxies on 10 December 2008. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
On 6 October 2007, Tom Votava (USA) managed to rack up a record score of 10,102,000 points on the NES version of the classic arcade shmup Gradius. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
Norwegian Kristian Emanuelsen is Twin Galaxies’ undisputed champion on the NES-era Ninja Gaiden (Tecmo, 1988), which is regarded as one of the toughest games of its time. Emanuelsen holds the records for highest score (1,226,800) and fastest completion (12 min 23 sec) of the US version of the game, as well as the fastest completion (13 min 26 sec) of the European version, known as Shadow Warriors. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamer”s Edition 2010
The high score record on Sonic the Hedgehog (SEGA, 1991) is 404,980, achieved by Michael Sroka (USA) as verified by Twin Galaxies on 26 May 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011 Sroka”s score beat the previous record by over 120,000 points.
The highest score on Scrabble Blast (EA, 2005) is 3,451, achieved by Kelly R. Flewin (Canada) on the Puzzle mode of the original Game Boy Advance version in Manitoba, Canada, on 25 March 2010 Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
Jason WIlson (USA) amassed a score 251,840 points on R-Type (Irem, 1987) on 15 June 1997. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011