Volgens sommige was het onmogelijk om de 28 jaar oude highscore van de arcadekast Asteroids te breken, maar John McAllister brak afgelopen weekeinde na 58 uur non-stop spelen met 41,338,740 punten het vorige wereldrecord.

After 58 straight hours of playing Asteroids in a friend's basement in Hillsboro, a Seattle man is presumed to have surpassed the all-time record store achieved on the Atari-brand arcade video game.

At about 10:15 p.m. Monday, John McAllister finished his marathon game of Asteroids with a final score of 41,338,740 points. According to the website of Twin Galaxies-- the authority on video game scores and scoring--the previous record for Asteroids is 41,336,440, which was set in November 1982.