McAllister scored 41,338,740 points on a friend’s Asteroids arcade cabinet in Hillsboro, Oregon over the course of three days. The previous 1982 record of 41,336,440 points, held by Scott Safran of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, was surmounted on 5th of April at 10:18pm Pacific Time. It took McAllister 58 hours to beat the record.

If the challenge of playing continuously for three days weren’t enough, McAllister also had to deal with the lack of a pause function.

Every few hours, once he had racked up enough extra lives, McAllister got up from his bar stool, paced the room, ate a sandwich, then sat back down to play and stated that a last-minute toilet trip almost cost him the record.

McAllister’s score will remain ‘unofficial’ until verified and recognized by the high scores authority Twin Galaxies.

First reported in Wired Magazine.