Twin Galaxies’ first Coronation Day Tournament is recognized as history’s first video game “World Championship”–held January 8-9, 1983 at the the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA.
Co-sponsored by Twin Galaxies and ABC-TV’s That’s Incredible, the event featured nineteen of North America’s top players competing on five current titles: Frogger, Millipede, Joust, Super Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong, Jr.
Billed as the “North American Video Game Olympics,” this contest continued onward as Twin Galaxies’ Coronation Day Tournament, an “invitation-only” Player-of-the-Year contest which features competition between hand-picked superstars. Every invitee was a record holder on at least one video game title.
Wow, that is ridiculously old as shit. It's nice to see how the games have progressed so rapidly over the years. Just 25 years later, old arcade style games have been replaced with 3D stuff.
I guess the competition was based on who could get the most points in the least amount of time, not playing 1v1. Nice, old as hell haha Thanks for sharing
Really epic, but it seems fakeish, like it was a staged television stunt thing rather than a real competition. I'm not saying I think it's fake, but it just doesn't feel completely believable for some reason. It's... campy I guess.
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