You guys may or may not have heard about this in the past couple of days, but in case you haven't, here's the news.
30-year-old Caitlin Oliver of Chicago, IL, who goes by the name cipater on tumblr, recently set the new world record for the arcade version of Splatterhouse on October 19th at the Galloping Ghost arcade in Brookfield, IL. The event was live-streamed and eventually ended with Caitlin earning 493,700 points and beating the original record of 373,100 set by Anthony Paparo on November 25, 2012.
Since then, she held more live-streaming events at the arcade in her attempt to widen the playing field and break her own record to make the search for the answer "What is the maximum score?" far more interesting. She has since broken her own record with a new score of 533,600. Caitlin has now made her name amongst the ranks of Rebecca Heineman (Space Invaders), Anna Cram (Wonder Boy), April Simmonds (Double Dragon Neo) and the late Doris Self (Q*Bert) in the field of women in competitive gaming that I would really love to see grow larger, and I cannot wait for this run to be verified as well.
I am now, more than ever, glad to be following Caitlin on tumblr, and I've been hearing that she may go for Altered Beast next. I wish her the best.
- PrinceWatercress
10/25/2013
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