Competitive Play
According to Twin Galaxies, Rodney Day of Canberra, Australia has held the world record Pengo score of 1,110,370 points since August 13, 1983. Day's performance has been commemorated by both the Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records and Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition.
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“The shift from the perception of the child as innocent to the perception of the child as competent has greatly increased the demands on contemporary children for maturity, for participating in competitive sports, for early academic achievement, and for protecting themselves against adults who might do them harm. While children might be able to cope with any one of those demands taken singly, taken together they often exceed children’s adaptive capacity.”
—David Elkind (20th century)
“They should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)