Twin Galaxies
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| Formation | November 10, 1981 |
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| Founder | Walter Day |
| Founded at | Ottumwa, Iowa |
| Purpose | Video Game Scorekeeping |
| Headquarters | Banning, California |
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Key people
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Jace Hall (Caretaker and Custodian) |
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Parent organization
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HDFILMS, Inc |
| Affiliations | Guinness World Records |
| Website | www |
Twin Galaxies is an American organization that tracks video game world records and conducts a program of electronic-gaming promotions. It operates the Twin Galaxies website and publishes the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, with the Arcade Volume released on June 2, 2007. The Guinness World Records - Gamers Edition 2008 was released in March, 2008 in conjunction with Twin Galaxies, who Guinness World Records considers to be the official supplier of verified world records to the annual volume.
For a time in late 2013, after more than 30 years as a record-keeper of video game world records, Twin Galaxies appeared to be defunct with the website (including the record high score database) being inaccessible. In March 2014, Jace Hall announced himself as the new owner of Twin Galaxies. On April 28, 2014, the full Twin Galaxies website, including the high score database and forum content, came back online.
During the summer of 1981, Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies incorporated, visited more than 100 video game arcades over four months, recording the high scores that he found on each game. On November 10, he opened his own arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, naming it Twin Galaxies. On February 9, 1982, his database of records was released publicly as the Twin Galaxies National Scoreboard.
Twin Galaxies became known as the official scoreboard, arranging contests between top players. Twin Galaxies' first event attracted international media attention for gathering the first teams of video-game stars. Top players in North Carolina and California were formed into state teams that faced off in a "California Challenges North Carolina All-Star Playoff", playing on 17 different games in Lakewood, California, and Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. California defeated North Carolina 10–7 over the weekend of August 27–30, 1982.
Similar competitions were also conducted during the summers of 1983 and 1984 when Day organized the players in many U.S. states to form teams and compete in high score contests for the Guinness Book of World Records. The states included California, North Carolina, Washington, Illinois, Nebraska, Ohio, Michigan, Idaho, Florida, New York, Oklahoma, Alaska, Iowa and Kansas.
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