Hey, remember the time you and I did a bunch of whippits together and then tried riding that ostrich at the arcade? Well sure, of course you do -because that afternoon with me was the best day of your life (not confirmed). Anyway, that little game with the ostriches and the knights and the eggs and the mounting frustration, called Joust, well that game has been holding a high score of 107,216,700 for the past 25 years, a record that just got trumped.
The gloating stack of masculinity you see in the banner pic above is none other than video game pro John McAllister (pictured with the Asteroids arcade machine he also holds the high score record for). HATERS GONE HATE, but John gets to laugh all the way to the bank. Check the video after the jump of McAllister getting absolutely medieval with Joust’s state of the art gameplay. I can’t really explain how he pulls off some of these moves on an arcade machine, all I know is that if I had the hand-eye-coordination that this guy does, I’d probably walk around telling women that I was an actual Jedi.
Video after the jump:
Special thanks to Buzzfeed for the tip.
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Now that Asteroids high score is impressive. Wreaks havoc with your masturbation hand.
Are the birds those little crows from BattleToads (the ones that turn into toenails when you kill them in the tunnel level)?
True story time: I set the world record for Joust on my Atari 5200 in 1983. I took a picture and sent it to the Guiness book of world records people and got confirmation that they received it. When the 1983 edition of book came out they no longer reported the high score for Joust. Which is just as well because I exploited a defect in the game. I was able to fly from right to left infinitely by landing on characters the game produced in regular repeating intervals. I walked away for 8 hours and bam, high score.
My years might be off by one, as it was fucking 25 years ago, but true nonetheless.
I once got to enter my initials into Lethal Enforcer?
No? Okay fine, essequemodeia FTW.
no idea wtf is happening in this video