Breaking the Arkanoid high score at Barcade

On February 19, 2017, I road-tripped with a few friends from New York City to New Haven, Connecticut, to break the Arkanoid high score at a place called Barcade.

For those who don't know, Arkanoid is a classic arcade video game that came out in 1986. Fourteen years later, I set the world record on it, and I'm always excited when I get the chance to play it in public.

To help quantify things a bit, the high score here at Barcade was 1,283,140. The second-highest verified score in the world (according to Twin Galaxies) is 1,418,180. The score I achieved at Barcade was 1,520,130, and my best ever was 1,658,110. I know that 1.7 million points is doable. Maybe someday . . .