Walter Day

Walter Day
Walter Day in January 2009
Born	Walter Aldro Day, Jr. (1949-05-14) May 14, 1949 (age 67) Oakland, California
Education	Salem State College (left before graduating)
Occupation	Video game referee and scorekeeper
Years active	1981–2010 2010–present (musician)
Known for	Twin Galaxies
Home town	Fairfield, Iowa
Title	Founder
Website	http://www.twingalaxies.com/ https://thewalterdaycollection.com/

Walter Aldro Day, Jr. (born May 14, 1949) is an American businessman, historian, and the founder of Twin Galaxies, a video game related company. Day is an authority on video game scorekeeping records who in 2010 retired from the industry to pursue a career in music.

Day was born in Oakland, California, on May 14, 1949. His father worked for the Federal government of the United States as a purchaser of jet engines. Day enrolled at Salem State College in 1967 and left the school in 1978 without obtaining a degree. He later moved to the city of Boston and pursued the practice of Transcendental Meditation.

Day has had several professions and hobbies during his life, including being an oil trader, landlord, vintage-newspaper vendor, musician and video arcade owner.

After moving to the town of Fairfield, Iowa, Day sold commemorative newspapers for a living and in 1980 went to Houston, Texas, to become an oil futures trader. Discouraged, Day moved back to Fairfield and became a landlord and purchased the Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1981. After reading the January 1982 issue of Time, which featured video games on its cover, Day was inspired to create an international scoreboard database. According to Day's company web site, six months later he began receiving 50 to 75 phone calls per day from video game players around the world wanting to report their high scores. Later, Day became "known as the king of video game stats" and appeared on the cover of Time in 1982. He became so well known for his video game record-keeping that Guinness World Records chose him as their assistant editor of video game scores for their 1984 to 1986 editions of the Guinness Book of World Records. Day closed his Ottumwa arcade in 1984 but continued his international score keeping activities through his company Twin Galaxies.