Highest score on Asteroids (Atari, 1979)

According to Official Guinness Records,

The highest score on Asteroids (Atari, 1979) is 41,838,740, achieved by John McAllister (USA), who played for 58 hours in an attempt verified by Twin Galaxies on 5 April 2010.
Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011The attempt was made possible by the fact that John is so skilled at Asteroids he was able to build up a reserve of 99 extra lives that allowed him to leave the game running while he took comfort breaks: even though his ship was repeatedly destroyed this still did not result in a Game Over screen because of the this excess.

For a complete list of 2010 records, please visit 2010 Guinness Records in United States.

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