Marathon History
The core patterns and strategies used in Nibbler were introduced to Twin Galaxies arcade by Tom Asaki from Montana who made a pilgrimage to Ottumwa, IA in 1983. His intention was to reach 1 billion points and acquire Rockola's Nibbler machine prize. Due to a number of setbacks, Tom only reached a score of 838,322,160.
Decades later, Canadian Dwayne Richard, broke the coveted billion point mark. Afterwards, the circuit boards used in his game were analyzed and found to have a timing problem. Per his own request, the world record score was removed from the Twin Galaxies scoreboard.
The East coast's elite gamer, Rick Carter eventually broke the billion point mark to claim the world record. Tim McVey reclaimed the score for awhile. Then in the summer of 2012 a young man from the pacific Northwest of the US, Elijah H, broke the world record with a billion point showing. Not to be outdone, later in 2012, Rick Carter came back with a crushing 50 plus hour game to topple the world record at 1.2 billion points. To date, his 1.2 billion point game retains top honors as the score to beat (November 2012 in Chicago, IL- 1,231,372,670- 53 hours, 8 minutes).
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