[MrBumpNJump]

Twin Galaxies was fantastic. The new owners were told time and time again from day 1 that paid submissions wouldn't cut it, yet they ignored everyone. I really had hopes of one day being listed in the official printed Guinness Book of Gamer Records, but I was never ever going to pay for that - well not the $100 or so it would cost with exchange rates, postage etc.

In a way it's sad what has happened, but in another way I feel like the new owners got exactly what they deserved. They bad mouthed the previous owners and now the saviors of TG have all but destroyed it.

I'm sure Walter won't make a comment publicly, but I'd really love to hear his thoughts on what has happened to his baby. Of course, he all but gave his blessing to the change over knowing (I'd assume) full well what was planned.

So what is next? I'll get in contact with Guinness with my arcade world record and find out what is next. The big problem with no official arcade scorekeeper is that it is very open to non legitimate scores getting into their pages. Without a background in gaming, how will they know what DIP switches they are looking at? how will they know if leeching is involved.

Someone needs to take the ball and run with it - unfortunately this will probably mean doing it at no cost to the gamer, but there are other ways to increase revenue if that's what you want and there are a hell of a lot of people who are more than willing to volunteer their time to verify scores.