A cool record

A good friend sent this to me and all I could say is damned, I thought I had no life! :)

After a grueling 58 hours of continuous play, John McAllister of Seattle, Washington officially became the best Asteroids player on the planet by scoring an unthinkable 41,338,740 points in the classic 1979 coin-op arcade game. The previous mark of 41,336,440 was set by Scott Safran back in 1982 -- the longest standing record in gaming -- and was considered virtually unbreakable.

"It's basically considered a Holy Grail," he told Portland TV station KGW. "It was a title that a lot of people would want, and I wanted it."

I worked at a pizza place when I was a senior in high school. After closing we would play video games (Asteroids, PACMAN, Wizard of Wor, etc) for hours, tossing one quarter in after another. This has led to one question I’ve always wanted to ask God.

“Lord, just courious, how much money did I waste on those video games when I was a kid?”