I don't recall the managaers name, but the Arcade was called Electromania in Santee, Ca. They have been closed for many years.(posted 9545 days ago)He was in contact with some national high score commision at the time, not sure who that was either. It was around '83 or so. A few of the guys in the arcade had there scores recorded with this commision. I remeber we had a compitition with an arcade in NY City once, the commision may have been based there.
I had Tron for 100K when it first came out, which was promptly defeated witin a matter of days. I had Zaxxon with 1.3 million which lasted for a few months until I saw it beaten for over 2 million in a competion in L.A. I don't recall anyones elses scores. I'm not sure how authorative this high score commision was, but I think my Zaxxon score was printed in an issue of Playboy or some other Mag. along with some other scores.
I was only a teenager at the time and it was quite a few beers ago so my memory is a bit hazy. :)