Title: Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book Of World Records
Subtitle: Third Edition, Arcade Volume
Description: This is a world records guide/reference book to various arcade games. About 2/3 of the book are related to Video Games, both original, and emulator versions of those games. The second 1/3 focuses on Pinball games. There is also a short section about "Novelty" arcade games. Scattered through the book are biographies of various record holders, each profile has a photograph of the person, and a blank place under their image, to receive a autograph, and a allow the date of the autograph to be recorded. There are also articles about various video game events, both these and the biography sections are listed as "Feature" in the books 'contents' pages. Three editions of this book were released. The "first edition" ISBN: 1887472258, was released in 1998, is the first book of this series, featured arcade, computer, and console video games, along with a shorter section on Pinball games. The "Second Edition" released in 2007, was originally meant to be part of a 3 volume set, with "Arcade Games" being the first of the three volumes. The planned second and third volumes were to focus on "Console Gaming", and "PC Gaming". However these do not seem to have been published. This "Third Edition" released in 2009, is the final book released by Twin Galaxies, was also planned to be a 3 volume set. Both the "Second", and "Third" editions of the guide were available in Paperback, Hardcover, and eBook versions. The word "Edition" in the title, refers to the number in the series, and not the actual "versions"/editions of that each book. In 2008 the "Guinness World Records" released their "Gamer's Edition", in collaboration with Twin Galaxies from 2008-2013. The "Guinness World Records: Gamer's Edition" has been released every since its first release.
Places: Twin Galaxies, 1984 Arcade
People: Zack Hample, Steve Hair, David Dean, Steve Jurazek, Tai Kuang Neng, Eric Ginner, Rick Fothergill, Steve Collins, Greg Mott, Donn Nauert, Mark Ahlers, Eric Ahlers, Ahlers Brothers, Mark Robichek, Gary Whelan, Billy Mitchell, Adam Letkoff, Patrick Scott, Chip Sbrogna, Jean Baudin, Patrick Wyrick, Anna Cram, David Palmer, Nick Ortakales, Eugene Jarvis, Dennis Weaver, Russell Archey, Jeffrey D. Lowe, Jr., Dan Cunningham, Yasuhiro Oda, Stan Loo, John Dworkin, Darren Harris, Robert Mruczek, Steve Harris, Doug Lowry, David Hernly, Tony Temple, Jimmy Linderman, Richie Knucklez, Paige Knucklez, Jamie Cahill, Mark Little, April P. Simmonds, Rob Gerhardt, Todd Rogers, Pat Laffaye, Martin Bedard, Walter Day, Jonathan Koolpe, Jeff Davis, John Conley, David Cruz, Greg Sakundiak, Jason Cram, Brandon Erickson, PhilYounger, Steve Wagner, Eric Liddell, Bill Jones, Cameron Feltner, Elaine Hodgson, Steve Sobe, Chris Eversole, Dean Liakakos, Graig Kinzler, Philip Britt, Mike Sullivan, David Dunn, Chris Emery, Nick Hutt, Gary Hatt, Tim Sczerby, Tom Duncan, Troy Whelan, Isaiah """"TriForce"""" Johnson, Lance Eustache, Justin Wong, Jeron """"Hiro"""" Grayson, Andrea Encarnacion, John McAllister, Ken House, Andrew Laidlaw, Icarus Hall, Brian Cady, Bill Mitchell, Steve Wiebe, Michael Bangs, John Russo, Callan Hendricks, Chris Mansfield, Greg Laue, Adam Wood, Chris Millard, Christine Millard, Jeff Peters, Benjamin M. Falls, Aart Van Vliet, Steve Sanders, Jack Gale, Paul Dean, Gary West, Richard Ross, Ok-Soo Han, Wayne Folse, Takeo Ueki, James Vollandt, Leah Banks, Dennis Blechner, Sascha Blechner, David S. Yuen, Desiree McCrorey, David Presley, Rick Smith, Brian Kuh, Chris Ayra, Tim McVey, Fred Pastore, Raina Lee, Shawn Paul Jones, Kevin Steele, David Nelson, Ken Sweet, Damian K. Broadwell, Blaine Locklair, Perry Rodgers, Dr. Eric Leuthardt, Gary Vincent, William Carlton, Tom Blankley, Bob Lawton, Joe Levan, Anthony Ramos, John Zabel, Rodney Day, Video Bob Albritton, Alex Valle, Daigo Umehara, Duc Do, John Choi, Mike Watson, Hsien Chang, Bronson Tran, Mr. Scott Safran, Derek Litton, Kelly Tharp, Christian Cram, David Demers, Jason Wilson, Dwayne Richard, Jay Kim, J.C. Padilla, Greg Erway, Shawn Cram, Michael Sao Pedro, Robert Griffin, Neil Chapman, Jason Alexander, Jason Gilleece, Matt Liu, Greg Bond, David Lowe, Tom Asaki, Donald Hayes, Abdner Ashman, Jennifer Moore, Brien King, Mr. Kelly R. Flewin, Cristiano Assumpcao, Danny Rodriguez, Nelson Santa Maria, Dan Iacovelli, Rob Craig, Craig Hassell, Dan Loosen, Ken Chaney, Bryan Wagner, Jason DeHeras, Kent Farries, Chris Steele, Larzrick Latiker, Tim Balderramos, John Thomas, Josh Powell, Ben Gold, Joel Hedge, Mark Alpiger, William Billich, Robert Jones, Patrick Mundt, Chin-Yu Lee, Jonathan MacKay, Shane Durette, Randy Lawton, Mark Boolman, Mark Spaeth, Richard W. Marsh, Steve Kyriakides, Walter Glassett, Ron Bailey, Rob Barrett, Stephen Krogman, Mark Longridge, Christopher Burnell, Chris E. McClard, Tim McIlroy, Charlie Weatherbee, Corey A. Sawyer, Nik Meeks, Lisa Paul, David Marston, Tom Votava, Ellis J. Rowland, Scott Kessler, Les Martin, Marc Cohen, Chris Whiteside, Christopher W. Benedict, Todd Walker, Eric Akeson, Terence O'Neill, Andrew Peter, Sebastien Giraud, Martin Rioux, Rodrigo Lopes, Rafal Politanski, Ryan Sullivan, Tommi Tiihonen, George Strain, Valter Treib, Conway Ho, Phil Chapman, Robert Macauley, Alex Weir, Anders Svensson, Didier Senechal, Rudy J. Ferretti, Lyman Sheats, Bowen Kerins, Steve Epstein, Rick Stetta, Roy Wils, Paul Jongma, Linus Jorenbo, Dick Klaver, Rob Berk, Mike Pacak, Stefan Anderson, Andreas Harre, Frederik Linberg, Markus Salo, Ron Mowry, Paul Madison, Kevin Martin, Jim Belsito, Neil Shatz, Roger Sharpe, Trent Augenstein, Jacek Przybylski, Janek Nietrzebka, Jaroslaw Nietrzebka, Aleksander Zurkowski, Helena Walter, Alysa Parks, Ellen Frankel, Tiina Rytky, Scott Herald, MNatthew Sell, Chris Walsh, Bret Fritch, Gary Stern, David Hegge, Donavan Stepp, Keith Elwin, Zach Sharpe, Kenneth Lunceford, Dallas Overturf, Dan Quayle, Josh Sharpe, Dan Wilson, Martin Ayub, Jim Schelberg, Martin Pfeiffer, Franck Bona, Taco Wouters, Brenn Oosterbaan, Mats Runsten, Albert Nomden, Millie McCarthy, John Miller, Chris Newsom, Andy Rosa, John Kosmal, Mike Mahaffey, Glenn Wilson, Keith Johnson