In just eight weeks, the deadline for submitting record breaking scores and proving your skill to the world will have passed. Twin Galaxies is gearing up to publish the next edition of their Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records.

Basically, you follow all of their specific rules and ultimately make a VHS tape of you kicking ass! Once you have the VHS tape that proves just how much free time you have, you need only send it in before the deadline. Here's a quick list of the nine games in question.

Wacky Races (DC)

Crazy Taxi 2 (DC)

SSX (PS2)

Wave Race (N64)

Mario Kart (N64)

18-Wheeler (DC)

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 & 2 (all platforms)

F-Zero X (N64)

Diddy Kong Racing (N64)

Racing seems to be the predominant theme here. For more details, just follow the link above, or read the excerpt from Twin Galaxies' press release below.

With only eight weeks left to submit scores to the next edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, nine big high-score contests are being created by Twin Galaxies' editorial staff to give players a last chance to win a berth in the record book.

Supporting all three major platforms, the nine contests will feature competition on some of the industry's hottest titles: Wacky Races (DC), Crazy Taxi 2 (DC), SSX (PS2), Wave Race (N64), Mario Kart N64, 18-Wheeler

(DC), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 & 2 (all platforms), F-Zero X (N64) and Diddy Kong Racing (N64).

Scores will be accepted for the record book on both NTSC and PAL formats.

Each contest is a high-score contest, requiring contestants to submit videotapes of their best gaming performance from the opening loading screens to the final scoretable that shows their scores. Only scores that are verified by a videotaped submission will make it in the book of records. Walter Day, Chief Scorekeeper at Twin Galaxies, says: "It is absolutely necessary to verify high scores through videotape because there are so many difficulty settings, game cheats and other variables that can affect the player's score. We make the players play under standardized game settings."

Chief Referee Mruczek, an accountant from Brooklyn, New York, who was the brainstorm behind the entire series of competitions, fashioned this phalanx of contests after the very-successful Crazy Taxi World championship, which he created for Twin Galaxies. Not only has the CT World Championship attracted the best CT players in the world, but it has won media coverage around the globe. Out of the nine contests looming on the near horizon, Mruczek will be personally refereeing six of the titles, making him the world's busiest video game referee.

Some of the other members of the Board of Scoreboard Editors who are refereeing the events are Jason Whalls and Kevin Booth, both N64 experts who specialize in Mario Kart 64, who will be reviewing all the videotapes submitted for the Mario Kart 64 competition. Booth, who lives in Portland,

Oregon, runs a web site for Mario Kart 64 and is completely knowledgeable of all cheats, glitches and other banned tricks that Twin Galaxies has outlawed in the event.

Participation in the contests is free of charge. Score submissions will be accepted from June 22 until August 31, 2001. To see the contest rules, terms and conditions, go to http://www.twingalaxies.com.