Although Jerry’s bookcase was stocked with Nintendo cartridges (in addition to bootleg pornography), the Seinfeld gang hardly ever appeared very serious about video video games. However that every one modified within the ninth and ultimate season of the present.
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“The Frogger” discovered George going to excessive lengths to protect his excessive rating on an previous Frogger arcade cupboard, ultimately enjoying a wildly harmful real-life model of the sport as he tries to maneuver the machine throughout the road.
In line with director Andy Ackerman, recreating the sport on the Seinfeld set proved to be a giant “problem,” requiring 30 stunt drivers, and forcing Jason Alexander to dive out of the best way of a rushing truck. “It was nearly an all-day occasion to place collectively a one-minute sequence,” Ackerman admitted.
However the laborious work was clearly price it. Not solely did we get one other basic Seinfeld episode, however this storyline had a huge impact on folks — and never simply because Peacock basically turned it right into a sport present in 2021.
In 2005, Twin Galaxies, the “authoritative physique” for “verifying achievements” in video video games, offered a contest of types — no, not that sort of contest — providing a money prize of $1,000 to anybody who might “beat George’s Frogger excessive rating” of 863,050 factors (though it was truly simply 860,630 factors).
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Whereas the supply was legitimate between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2005, no one ended up beating the report held by GLC (George Lewis Costanza). However in 2009, George’s self-described “legacy” was toppled by Pat Laffaye of Westport, Connecticut, who scored a whopping 896,980 factors, setting a “new world report” for Frogger.
Although this quantity was seemingly determined upon at random by the identical group of creatives who got here up with the puffy shirt and “Mulva,” Twin Galaxies heralded the information as a significant achievement. “Regardless that it was imagined by tv writers, Pat has damaged one of the well-known scores in popular culture,” the group stated in a press release. “Pat’s superb rating will now perpetually be hooked up to not solely Twin Galaxies historical past, however pop-culture trivia as properly.”
Reportedly, each Laffaye and one other participant later obtained Frogger scores of over one million, which is a variety of effort to place right into a janky simulation of city animal endangerment.
However as Kotaku famous on the time, Frogger’s rating can’t truly go as much as one million, as a result of the rating rolls again to zero “at any time when a participant surpasses 99,990 factors.” Gamers can nonetheless hold observe of how a lot they’ve by counting the variety of instances the rating resets, however because of this the report George tries to protect on Seinfeld was principally as actual as his home within the Hamptons.
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