For those not initiated, from this link:
“Burgertime is a 1982 Japanese arcade game created by Data East Corporation for its DECO Cassette System. The game was originally titled Hamburger in Japan, but was renamed Burgertime before being introduced to the United States. A maze game, Burgertime puts the player in the role of a chef (“Peter Pepper”) who must drop layers of a hamburger onto trays by walking over them while avoiding other food characters who chase him around the maze.”
For some reason a table top version of this game was installed in the high school I attended in Cuba (this was a pseudo-military government school, where we lived year round). We played this game at any opportunity and organized tournaments around it. Now I find from the same link referenced above that:
“According to Twin Galaxies, the world record high score on Burgertime is 9,000,000 points, achieved by Bryan L. Wagner of Turbotville, Pennsylvania on June 2, 2006 at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.[1]”
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is nowhere near the world record for this game. I was not the best player around and I rolled the score over the 9,999,999 mark once. Others did it several times. Basically at that point the numbers revert back to 0 and it starts again.
I don’t know if I should even make an entry about it in the website since I have no proof of this. And in the interest of full disclosure I should add that we played for free, since we could open the coin collector and reuse the same coin over and over.
I guess you can’t believe everything you read in Wikipedia.