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The 14th Annual ACAM tourney is less than one month away!

Come experience the arcade tournament that sparked the revival of classic arcade game competitions! The annual International Classic Videogame Tournament at The American Classic Arcade Museum (ACAM) is quickly approaching and 2012 marks the 14th year for this historic event.

The tournament will take place from Thursday, May 31st through Sunday, June 3rd, 2012. Tournament hours are Thursday Noon-10pm, Friday and Saturday 10am-11pm and Sunday 10am-5pm. Admission is $60.00 and includes 250 game tokens. This year's tournament is sponsored in part by Mix 94.1FM, The Planet 100.1, New Country 106.9 & Gamer Soda. The first 100 registrants will receive a commemorative T-shirt and goodie bag.

More information can be found on the ACAM web site:
http://www.classicarcademuseum.org/Old-Site/tournament.htm

ATTENTION MAME STREAMERS!

Time to man up and get ready for CT4.

The Greatest Thing Ever In The World!!!

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Almost no one was watching until late in the game.

He had 140,400 at the start of level 5.

Lost his 3rd man at 939,100 on 18-2, shy of a 1.2 million pace but still on pace for a new record regardless.

For at least the last four full levels he didn't say a word or make a sound, until the end when he let out a stress-induced exhalation like he hadn't breathed in three hours. Total elapsed time 3 hrs 5 min.

Highest. Donkey Kong score. Ever.

The American Classic Arcade Museum is pleased to bring you extensive photos of the PAX-East show in Boston. Over 70,000 people are expected to attend, and as in prior years, ACAM is providing the classic arcade exhibit complete with 80's music blasting along with a laser light show.

Details can be found in this thread.....

http://www.aurcade.com/forums/default.aspx?a=top&id=1713

Fresh off the Battle of the Arcades two weekends ago and 48+ hours of Track & Field back in late December, up-and-coming classic arcade gaming star Elijah Hayter is going to attempt what few people have ever done, 1 BILLION points on the Rock-Ola classic Nibbler.

Elijah has been in contact with current record holder Tim McVey as well as past record holders and competitors Rick Carter and Dwayne Richard, honing his skills and talking strategy. He is confident he can eclipse the existing record of 1,041,767,060 ironically set the same weekend Elijah set the bar for Track & Field with an amazing score of 26,479,630.

As always, Elijah's attempt will be streamed live on his twitchtv.com channel HERE from what has come to be known as 'World Record' corner at the KenCade.

Start time is scheduled for 9:00am Pacific time Saturday, 4-7-2012.

UPDATE: Official start time 8:35am PDT

UPDATE: 12:35pm 4 hours in 108M. 27M per hour pace.

UPDATE: 2:35pm 6 hours in 163M. Just over 27M per hour pace.

UPDATE: 5:35pm 9 hours in 243M. 27M per hour pace.

UPDATE: 8:35am 24 hours in 650M. Still 27M per hour pace!

UPDATE: 1:35pm 29 hours in 773M. 26.6M/hr pace overall.

UPDATE: Game over just as he passed the 32-hour mark. Final score was 846,730,580. Great first effort, Elijah!

UPDATE: The local news came out to the KenCade during the event. They got the final score wrong but still pretty cool. You can see it HERE.