Twin Galaxies is the world authority on player rankings, gaming statistics and championship tournaments. Founded in 1981, Twin Galaxies grew from modest origins as an arcade chain operator to gain recognition as the "official scorekeeper for the world of video game & pinball playing," invested with the authority to verify "official" world record high-scores and crown new world champions.
As an industry statistician, Twin Galaxies organized electronic game playing into a sport, with a tradition of contests, player stats, world records and star players. As Twin Galaxies' fame grew in the early 1980s, its role as the industry's official ranking body attracted the attention of major media outlets, like LIFE Magazine, ABC-TV's That's Incredible and the Guinness Book of World Records, who publicized the top-ranked players through contests and major news stories.
To support today's interactive gaming industry, Twin Galaxies has published its famous scoreboard of world records in a searchable online database at www.twingalaxies.com. With gaming statistics dating back to 1982, Twin Galaxies' online database is the official repository of gaming history for the electronic interactive gaming industry. Also, Twin Galaxies promotes the electronic gaming hobby with a bi-annual publication: Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records, which is the official book of records for the gaming industry.
To organize video game playing into a mature sport, Twin Galaxies has established numerous player's leagues, including the Twin Galaxies Unreal Tournament Leage (TGUTL) and the Twin Galaxies' Electronic Gamers League (TGEGL), which are the world's first cross-platform gaming organizations that sponsor an international schedule of tournaments featuring both console and PC titles.
To further establish electronic gaming as a professional sport, Twin Galaxies has created a Board of Scoreboard Editors who examine every game to standardize the settings required for world record competition. Under Twin Galaxies' jurisdiction, this Board works to enforce the rules, create the contests, compile the historical statistics and crown the champions on all games.
Today, Twin Galaxies is conducting a global campaign to identify the world's greatest gamers for publication in the forthcoming commemorative edition of Twin Galaxies' Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records.
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