Twin Galaxies referee wants to pay you to set world records on various games.Have you ever wished you could be paid to play games? Robert Mruczek, Chief Referee of Twin Galaxies, has promised cash bounties for proof of high scores on a set of classic (and a few modern) video games, including several games among the NES, Super NES, and N64 systems. The bounties range from $25 to $200 each, with all of them totalling for a whopping $3000 to be paid by the end of the year. In addition to being paid for their skills, the winners may also be recognized as world record holder for their particular games. Twin Galaxies is, after all, the leading authority and maintainer of video game world records.
Nintendo games on the bounty list include Super Mario 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Blaster Master, Metal Gear, and Zombies Ate My Neighbors, among others. Hit the link above to find a complete list of the bounties and the official rules. Here's the official press release from Twin Galaxies:
Video Game Player Promises Thousands of Dollars in Prize Monies to Players Who Break Selected Video Game World Records
FAIRFIELD, IOWA - January 17, 2004 - Cash prizes have been promised for top high-scores achieved during the course of the new year 2004. And the money is coming straight out of Robert Mruczek's own pocket - nearly $3,000 dollars in bounties. Mruczek, who is most well known as Twin Galaxies' Chief Referee, says: "I want to prime the pump and get players tackling old world records that have not been beat in some time. I think its good for the hobby."
What is a bounty? It is a cash reward promised to individuals who attain an established goal in a designated time frame. In this case, the goals are high score thresholds designated by Mruczek on many different titles on the NES, SNES, Magnavox 2, Dreamcast, Playstation, PS2, X-Box, N-64, Colecovision, Atari 2600 and arcade coin-op platforms.
"This is a very significant offer," says Walter Day, Twin Galaxies' Chief Scorekeeper and editor of the forthcoming Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records. "Robert Mruczek is a devoted supporter of the gaming hobby. In fact, he is one of the hobby's leaders in civic activism, willing to put the needs of the hobby ahead of his own gain. The only other player who has put his own money up to encourage competitive playing was Billy Mitchell, who issued a famous poster in 1999 that offered thousands of dollars in prizes for high scores on dozens of classic arcade games from the early 1980s." To see Mruczek's list of bounties, go to http://www.twingalaxies.com.
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