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To be error free in the face of the swarming bugs is one aspect that drew Laidlaw to the game. “For somebody who likes to bowl, trying to always do better, or play golf or do anything to always try to be better, it’s addicting in that aspect,” Laidlaw said. Improving one’s score with an eye to perfection seems to be a theme for Galaga fans. “It increases her confidence because she is always trying to improve her score.” “I think this game teaches strategy and teaches problem solving,” she said. Amateurs will compete Saturday for a $1,500 top prize.Ĭlara Roybal, a high school math teacher, is all for it. It’s a family affair for the Roybals, with mother Clara, father Glenn, and sisters Bella and Gabby accompanying Arielle to Santa Fe.Īrielle will find out Friday night if she’ll get to move on as part of the top 10. “There is something about it that I found really intriguing.” “It’s just really therapeutic for me,” Roybal said. Roybal is the only female and youngest competitor in the competition, but she has played the game since she was 6, and plays about three hours a week. While the pros traveled from around the country and across the globe to get here, 14-year-old Arielle Roybal and her family drove the 60 miles from Albuquerque. “I’ve only been playing this game about two and one-half months seriously to qualify.” “I have been practicing since I heard about this tournament,” he said. While he holds the record for Gorf, another classic arcade game, Swanson said he’s a long shot in this competition. “It’s not like my favorite game,” he said, “but with the prize money for this, I’ve got to see what I can do.” A game he previously played only for fun took on monetary meaning. “It was the one that fascinated me the most.”įor Swanson, 49, the carrot this weekend is cash. There were other classic arcade games at the time such as Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, but Laidlaw fixated on Galaga. Galaga was developed by Namco Japan as a sequel to a game called Galaxian. “We didn’t have Xbox, we didn’t have PlayStation,” he said. Laidlaw watches a standing Gonzales, who is too preoccupied to talk, fire away with bursts of “missiles” at the invaders or “bugs,” while Barrow, twisting on a stool at his Galaga machine, asks art director Everett for a bottle of water.įor Laidlaw, 52, the game hearkens back to the days when he started going to arcades as a kid. Marathon mode, however, means exactly that, a game limited only by a player’s durability, need for water or a call of nature. The tournament mode has finality because a “kill screen” eventually stops the game. Laidlaw set the world record for Galaga’s tournament mode with a score of 4,525,150 in 2011, taking the title from Day. “It seemed significant to me that an artists’ collective was sponsoring a video game competition.” The gathering, which features a simultaneous amateur competition, drew freelance journalist Nicholas Mainieri from Indiana, who pitched the story to, a long-form journalism website. “The difference between a guy who can score a million points and a guy who can score 5 million points, that’s like five people in the world,” he said. The players are on an otherworldly level, said Meow Wolf creative director Adam Drucker. Meanwhile, other players are trying for records in several other classic arcade games. But “invaders” like Andrew Barrow of New Zealand and Philip Day of Australia could be spoilers. Others like Keith “Arcade Doctor” Swanson of Orlando, Fla., or world record-holder Andrew Laidlaw of Seattle had other ideas.

Several onlookers at Thursday’s initial competitions said they consider Gonzales, 44, a relative newcomer to the venerable arcade game, a “dark horse” favorite to win. He explained that “video games make storytelling interactive, which set the stage for Meow Wolf to make storytelling interactive and immersive.” “They grew up in the classic video game era.” “The Meow Wolf founders and many of the artists of Meow Wolf are of the video game generation,” said John Feins, Meow Wolf’s vice president for communication, when asked what led the arts production company to sponsor the gathering.

That was an era of electronic entertainment that still inspires many of the people who help create the immersive art installations with multimedia elements at Meow Wolf. Meow Wolf put up the funds for the grand prize and flew in the world’s 12 best players of Galaga, a game developed in Japan that reached U.S. “He could be playing for 14 or 15 hours if he wants the record,” said Meow Wolf art director Chadney Everett as he watched entrants try to qualify for Sunday’s final.

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