{"id":6150,"date":"2018-02-18T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=6150"},"modified":"2018-02-18T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T04:56:14","slug":"galaga-video-game-champs-battle-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/galaga-video-game-champs-battle-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Galaga Video Game Champs to Battle in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6151\" src=\"https:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Galaga-Arcade-Game.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Galaga-Arcade-Game.jpg 450w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Galaga-Arcade-Game-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Galaga-Arcade-Game-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Galaga-Arcade-Game-55x55.jpg 55w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Galaga-Arcade-Game-75x75.jpg 75w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/>In 2009, Australian man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wl05hLlCkw8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phil Day<\/a> took out the world record high score for the 80&#8217;s video game Galaga.\u00a0 \u00a0Since then holder of\u00a0 high score for the game has changed hands a few times but next month some of the best Galaga players in the world will gather to give it another go.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among the lineup of the<a href=\"https:\/\/scorewars.com\/events\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Score Wars video game tournament<\/a> will be Phil Day, although he admits that he hasn&#8217;t actually played a full game of Galaga since his 2009 record score.\u00a0 \u00a0 The pro-level tournament has a top prize of 10 thousand dollars (USD).<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be catching up with Phil Day in the coming weeks as he prepares for the competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1uCmDl06eVU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Australian man Phil Day took out the world record high score for the 80&#8217;s video game Galaga.\u00a0 \u00a0Since then holder of\u00a0 high score for the game has changed hands a few times but next month some of the best Galaga players in the world will gather to give it another go. Among the lineup of the Score Wars<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/galaga-video-game-champs-battle-march\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6151,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[828],"tags":[1700,25],"class_list":["post-6150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games-2","tag-galaga","tag-video-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Galaga Video Game Champs to Battle in March - Tech Daily with Andy Wells<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/galaga-video-game-champs-battle-march\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Galaga Video Game Champs to Battle in March - Tech Daily with Andy Wells\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In 2009, Australian man Phil Day took out the world record high score for the 80&#8217;s video game Galaga.\u00a0 \u00a0Since then holder of\u00a0 high score for the game has changed hands a few times but next month some of the best Galaga players in the world will gather to give it another go. 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