Perezstart.com took a ride down to Flemington, NJ for Richie Knucklez’s World Record Weekend this past weekend.. Where top players from all over the world, (and we do mean the World) met up to compete for the top spot of their respective games.

Of course as gaming fans ourselves, we took advantage of the great selection of Classic Games that Richie has to offer. Our EIC and his wife (Juan and Melissa Perez) were fascinated by the Tapper machine. Tapper is an excellent game, but even better when you play it on an actual arcade machine because of its unique controls.

I made my way around the arcade and played a few all time favorites. From Qbert, to Ms. Pacman to Punchout and Galaga. Ritchie’s collection was new and fresh from our last visit a few months ago. He had a new Championship Sprint game that I spent some time on.

I made my way around one of my favorite classic games, Mat Mania.  I squeaked by the Insane Warrior and succumbed to the second challenger, Karate Fighter. In the background, I was being observed by another player..but by whom?

As I moved away from the machine, this new player took over the controls and the rest was History. He destroyed each opponent with a barrage of shoulder blocks, kicks, punches, irish whips and death splashes off the top turnbuckles. He demolished every opponent until he admitted that he was going to stop because it would go on forever. WOW!!!

Little did I know, the Twin Galaxy World Champion of Mr. Do, Mr. Jimmy Linderman was the player. What an amazing player, he was so precise in every movement, he really is a player worth watching. He set his record on Mr. Do back on September 21-22, 2008. Jimmy compiled a score of 30,075,000 which took an outstanding 18 hours to complete!

Watch out for Jimmy, he has many more world records to break!

We also had a chance to see Hank Chein break the 900k mark on Donkey Kong. Hank is a phenomenal player who is eying the world record himself.  I am predicting that he will break a million and break the world record in a few months.  His dedication, discipline and execution are outstanding. He also performs pretty well under pressure which is key to being a world champion! We are all on Hank watch!

We also had a chance to speak to Mr. Pat Laffaye who just recently broke the record in Constanza’s favorite game, “Frogger” Pat scored an amazing 771,060 on Frogger on June 28, 2009 in Richie Knucklez’s arcade!

Overall a video game star studded experience that we all enjoyed! Not to mention we all received a complimentary limited edition bottle of Billy Mitchel hot sauce! Talk about excellent parting gifts!!!

If you are a video game buff, you have to seriously consider owning an actual video arcade game for your home. Nothing beats playing on an actual classic machine. Richie’s unit are impeccable and priced to move!  All of his units boast classic “knucklez” control! Pinpoint accuracy and control are what separates Richie’s machine from the rest! Please visit his website for more information… make sure and tell him Perezstart sent ya!

http://www.richieknucklez.com/html/game_sales.html

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Gaplus
Released by: Namco
Year: 1984
Style: Classic Shoot ‘em up

Space invaders kind of bored me, didn’t do much for me at all. Asteroids was ok, but after a while I was like, “is that it?”

Galaga was the first shooter game to really hook me and to this day can still garners my quarters. It’s one of my few Wii VC old school downloads and I play it at least once a week. The gameplay, challenge stages and variety made this game a winner.

Gaplus, or also known as Galaga Plus or Galaga 3 (the search for Galaga 2?) is this weeks classic game of the week. The game as I can remember never really made a spash. I didn’t remember seeing it until many years later. I remember playing it on PS1 back in 1996 and I was amazed as to how good this game was. This one went over my head in the 80’s. It is said that the game was released right after the video game crash of 1983 which affected its popularity.

In Gaplus, you can now move horizontally about halway up the screen.  A notable enhancement is now the player has a “tractor beam”. In the previous installment, you had to wait for that green (blue if you shot him once) alien to come down and swoop your ship in. For the sequel, however, the player can now acquire the Tractor Beam. This is achieved by shooting one of the alien formation’s ‘generals’—a visibly more colourful alien than its comrades. The Tractor Beam will then activate for a limited time and any aliens the players captures (up to a maximum of six) will dock alongside the player’s ship for enhanced firepower.

The Galaxian Series

• Galaxian (1979)
• Galaga (1981)
• Gaplus aka Galaga 3 (1984)
• Galaga ‘88 (1987)

In conlcusion: If you love classic shoot ‘em ups you migh thave missed this one. The game has all of the fun of Galaga plus more with the classic feel you will enjoy. It even has an easter egg for your to discover.  Next week we will cover Galaga ‘88 which was another great classic! Do any of you have any memories of Gaplus and if so what did you think of it?

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