Twin Galaxies is the electronic gaming industry’s premiere statistician, dedicated to preserving the history of video gaming in a huge database that documents gaming milestones.
Founded in 1981, Twin Galaxies grew from modest origins as an arcade chain to gain recognition as the ”official scorekeeper for the world of video game and pinball playing,” invested with the authority to verify ”official” world record high scores and crown new world champions.
Founder Walter Day was working as a travelling salesman in the early 1980s, which allowed him to pursue his interest in arcade gaming. Covering the length and breadth of the US for his work, Walter took time out to visit as many video game arcades as possible to record the high scores he found on each game.
On 9 February 1982, Walter’s growing database of high score statistics was made available to the public as the Twin Galaxies National Scoreboard. The release received immediate recognition from the major game manufacturers of the day – Atari, Midway, Williams Electronics, Universal, Stern, Nintendo and Exidy – in addition to support from RePlay and Playmeter magazines, the two premier coin-op publications of the era.
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