{"id":620984,"date":"2010-01-05T10:19:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=87439"},"modified":"2010-01-05T10:19:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T15:19:55","slug":"man-shatters-george-costanza-frogger-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/620984","title":{"rendered":"Man Shatters George Costanza Frogger Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Pat-Laffaye-George-Costanza-Frogger-Record-500x375.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" title=\"Pat Laffaye George Costanza Frogger Record\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-87440\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pat Laffaye, of Westport, Connecticut, has done the unthinkable. He beat George Costanza&#8217;s fictional Frogger record. <\/p>\n<p>Laffaye is the first person in video gaming history to beat the &#8220;Costanza Score&#8221; of 860,630 points, set during a classic episode of <em>Seinfeld<\/em>, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twingalaxies.com\/index.aspx?c=19&#038;id=1928\">Twin Galaxies International <\/a>&#8211;the official scorekeeper on all eras of video gaming since 1981.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-87439\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/a-FbktgqCqY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Laffaye shattered George\u2019s score, earning 896,980 points for crossing pixilated frogs across a busy street in a record-setting game that ended just before midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve. <\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Even though it was imagined by television writers, Pat has broken one of the most famous scores in pop culture,&#8221; <\/em>Twin Galaxies Division Manager Patrick Scott Patterson said. <em>&#8220;Pat&#8217;s amazing score will now forever be attached to not only Twin Galaxies history, but pop culture trivia as well.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JDE6LwA5FXZdTGJ0GVNlREnioyY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JDE6LwA5FXZdTGJ0GVNlREnioyY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JDE6LwA5FXZdTGJ0GVNlREnioyY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/JDE6LwA5FXZdTGJ0GVNlREnioyY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Laffaye, of Westport, Connecticut, has done the unthinkable. He beat George Costanza&#8217;s fictional Frogger record. Laffaye is the first person in video gaming history to beat the &#8220;Costanza Score&#8221; of 860,630 points, set during a classic episode of Seinfeld, according to Twin Galaxies International &#8211;the official scorekeeper on all eras of video gaming since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2BxS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}