The Tubers High Score Challenge!

Earlier this year myself and a friend, Steve, decided to challenge each other on YouTube at an arcade game. The premise was simple:

One credit, 3 lives, 3 practice runs and then go for it!

The game in question was Thunder Dragon 2 and Steve kicked my butt. He had played it a lot more mind...

It was quite fun so we decided to do another and another. By now or if not straight away another Tuber wanted to join in so we said yeah why not? The more the merrier! Several weeks down the line the High Score Challenge began to become more popular and we all kept in touch via Twitter. Each week it would be someone else's turn to pick the game of choice. As long as you could earn a score the game would qualify.


Eventually our members grew too big for tweets to handle so we created a Facebook group called the Tubers High Score Challenge!

This made it much easier to stay in touch. Currently we have 40+ members and the group is as popular as ever.

The rules have slightly changed. Now you can practice as much as you like but must record and upload your run by the end of Sunday each week. The reason for this is that Steve and myself film a high score recap video in work the next day which has proven to be quite popular!

A tuber called Interghost then adds the scores to his website Interghosts Retro Records

Someone different chooses the next game each week, usually on Sunday, and in order to qualify for a game selection you must at least upload one high score challenge video!

We have files in the group explaining how this all works including a list of previous challenges and the order of game selectors.

It's great fun and a good way to discover new games! I haven't heard of the majority of games we've chosen!

So if you fancy joining in then visit our Facebook group:

Tubers High Score Challenge

Here's the link to my YouTube channel:

Matropolis86

A list of all other participating YouTubers are listed in the group!

So check out the group, watch a few videos and please join in!