On January 4, 2010 TwinGalaxies.com announced a man from Connecticut had beaten the "Costanza Score" in Frogger, a high score made famous in a classic episode of Seinfeld. http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=19&id=1928 The man reached a score of 896,980 points, which was over 40,000 points more than the 860,630 points high score, held by Seinfeld character George Costanza (played by Jason Alexander). The man, Pat Laffaye, is also the World Record high score holder for the game Paper Boy. TwinGalaxies announced in a press release:
"Mr. Laffaye's new World Record mark of 896,980 points was verified by Twin Galaxies referee Eric Akeson and announced by Twin Galaxies at the stroke of midnight on New Years as the ball dropped in Times Square. "
"Even though it was imagined by television writers, Pat has broken one of the most famous scores in pop culture. Pat's amazing score will now forever be attached to not only Twin Galaxies history, but pop culture trivia as well."
The new record holder has been in a long and fierce competition with fellow gaming champion Donald Hayes for the top Frogger ranking.
Twin Galaxies, established in Iowa in 1981, tracks record scores and times for video games going as far back as the 1970s to current day hits for the Nintendo Wii, XBox 360, and PlayStation 3 via it's website.http://www.twingalaxies.com/index.aspx?c=19&id=1928
World Record holder Pat Laffaye, who beat the world famous "Costanza Score"
Frogger on Seinfeld
Seinfeld incorporated Frogger in one of season 9, episode 18, called The Frogger, in which they have to move a frogger machine from one side of the street to the other.
