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Now, Doris Self, of Fort Lauderdale, eats, drinks and sleeps Q*Bert, the classic video game from the early 1980s, practicing day and night. And, if she breaks the Q*bert record, she'll be history's oldest video game world champion.
"I was the Q*bert champion in 1984 with a score of 1,112,300 points," remembers Doris. "At that time, I was the oldest video game champ in the world at 58 years old, a fact verified by Twin Galaxies' scorekeeper Walter Day (www.twingalaxies.com). It's still listed in Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, the gaming industry's official book of records."
Though Doris' score was bested in 1985, she still retained the status of "oldest" champion until 2003 when John Lawton, 72, of New Hampshire, captured the Depthcharge title.
"I was sad when I lost the title I had held for twenty years," laments Doris. "Then I got a call from gaming legend Billy Mitchell, who offered to loan me a Q*bert machine to practice on and win back my title. Billy made me promise that I would give up poker and practice Q*bert everyday." |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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Anonymous at 07:50am 11/27/2005
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bold is very happy in life
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Anonymous at 07:08pm 05/27/2005
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What!? No articles on viagra causing blindness? U miss that or were
u blind? lol. No marathon sessions spanking monkey on viarga!!!
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Anonymous at 05:01pm 05/27/2005
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muuuhahah i know! i'm a useless #!!# that will not one bit improve
this country
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Anonymous at 10:00am 05/27/2005
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Once that generation is gone we're doomed. Gen X and Y are not gonna
know how to clean up this Boomer mess.
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Anonymous at 03:32am 05/27/2005
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i bet you at 79 and still playing video games, she will let you own
her with or without the qbert machine.
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GX-WarSpite at 03:41pm 05/26/2005
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American customs, but anyway...
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Lawdrich at 11:54am 05/26/2005
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Aww mang. I need to get me a Q*bert machine and pwn that b1tch.
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Jakub is STILL mad about his blowup doll getting stopped in German
customs...his game has never been on since...
tsk tsk tsk...
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egglick at 11:44am 05/26/2005
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Yeah, the article itself says 80. She must've held the record
earlier in the year in 1984 and just recently had her birthday.
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