Corey asked if I could stream my 1,061,700 game (my first WR game) of 2/26/10 for historical purposes. Just to put this game into context:
Billy Mitchell's (arcade) world record of 1.050M stood for ~2.5 years at that point. I think a lot of that had to do with the 1M live rule which pretty much ended the back and forth rivalry between Billy and Steve. And at the same time it stunted the new generation of players from coming forward. The 2nd gen players were starting to reach 1M. Dean had done it in MAME already. Tim and Scott Kessler had done it on Arcade but at home and with no ref present. The MAME WR was 1.073M (someone double check that). I had just gotten my first 1M a few months earlier in 9/09 and almost simultaneously the 1M live rule was lifted (maybe in 11 or 12/09). This was my golden ticket-- everything was falling into place.
That particular day it was snowing heavily. By heavily, I mean up to my waist in snow. I actually tried to go to work, but my car was buried. Needless to say, I called in sick and played DK =). I seem to remember that whole day was frustrating. I had trouble getting games started. So I would take naps in between attempts to shake off the frustration and to catch up on sleep. It was getting close to midnight so it was going to be my last attempt for the day and of course... bingo.
When I broke the record, I was extremely nervous for several reasons. First while I was leeching one of the rivet boards, I had that hardware audio gate glitch occur. It was the first time I had seen/heard of that glitch and was afraid it would disqualify the game. Secondly, I had no idea if I was doing the post-game verification correctly. I don't think anyone had submitted a game under the "new" rules yet and I was basically going through the rules line by line. I think one of the funniest parts of the video is when I looked at the label on the CPU and I said "Z80.....A ??" I later learned that Z80A is what it's supposed to say. TG asked me to keep things hush about the game at the time, but I think that time is long gone.
Anyhow I don't know exactly what time I'll stream. I'll probably do it during one my breaks, maybe sometime in the afternoon. I can shoutbox/bump this thread if people are interested.
