Twin Galaxies Founder Retires for Music Career

Twin Galaxies has been recording video game records for almost 20 years, and now, the man behind the company's success is hanging up his clipboard.

Walter Day, who founded the company in 1981 after finding no one was keeping track of video game scoring records, in retiring to pursue a music career, according to a Twin Galaxies press release. The company began as a small video game arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, during the origin of the video game boom.

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Recognized by Guinness World Records, CNN, MTV, Wired Magazine, and others, Twin Galaxies references have appeared in numerous movies and popular television shows over the past year.  Last June, G4tv aired an official Twin Galaxies World Record attempt on live television as part of their E3 Expo coverage.

Day has been slowly removing himself from day-to-day duties at Twin Galaxies over the past few years, turning over many of his former duties to a new generation of staff members including David Nelson, Rich Booth,Todd Rogers, Patrick Scott Patterson, and Nik Meeks.

Walter Day now plans to pursue his lifelong dream of a music career, as seen in several documentary films.  He states in the video interview that he finally feels that Twin Galaxies is in the right people's hands to move into the future.

Good luck, Walter, and thanks for helping to document the impressive feats of our industry.