Man seeks to become Jedi Master by playing videogame

Cafe Society
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Until two and a half years ago, I used to live in the Portland metro area. I remembered earlier tonight about an arcade there that devoted itself entirely to arcade games from the 1970s and 1980s. After looking up their website and finding out that they had moved to a larger location, I also discovered something on their news section of their webpage, and I’m not sure if I should be impressed, amused, or if I should repress the urge to yell “NERD!”

The news section apparently updates once a month, so if you’re reading this OP long after it has been posted, it’ll be out of date. For that reason, I’ll quote an excerpt from the article:

As of this writing, the guy has now been playing for 13 hours and 6 minutes straight, and has amassed a score of 84,386,736.

There’s a charity fundraiser involved, which has raised a modest amount.

Since I no longer live in Portland anymore, I can’t pop by there and check to see if this is for real or not. Has any Portland-area Dopers seen this guy on the news lately? Anyone volunteer to visit there and confirm this?

And for the rest of you, your thoughts on this guy? Personally, I think this bit from the webpage is priceless:

You can’t make this stuff up.

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Well, I hope he remembers to wear a food suit – otherwise come Wednesday he’s gonna be very hungry AND will have to pee so bad he can taste it…

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Drat – that link worked when I clicked from the Google search, but now it’s coming up as a registration page to Miami Herald elsewhere.

Try this one:

food suit

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Dude, I know that guy!

This is so not out-of-character for him. :slight_smile: The picture says nay, but it would have been cool to see him playing for forty-eight hours in the completely accurate Boba Fett costume he made a few years ago.

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Hey, I loved the Atari Star Wars arcade game like a brother, and even I’m fighting downthe urge to yell “GEEK!” at this. :smiley:

At least it’s for a charity, so there’s a good cause involved. I just hope the “I hope George Lucas grants me the rank of Jedi Master” bit is a gag…

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Looks like he’s over 35 hours now. Guy’s gonna have bleep bloop bleep nightmares… :wink:

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Is there someone dropping Visine in his eyes like in A Clockwork Orange?

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I walk by that place almost everyday at lunch.

I should swing by tomorrow and see if he’s still at it.

Perhaps I’ll put a quarter on the console (old school for ‘I get the next game’)

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Well, check the link now – GAME OVER, and he went for 54 hours and 10 minutes. But didn’t quite make it to the 300 million score. Final score: 283,779,000.

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…thus proving that being a Jedi is a lot harder than it looks. :slight_smile: