Last night, to relieve some stress, I sat down to play me some Bejeweled on the xbox. I’m actually pretty good. (I know, it’s sad.) I got my highest score so far, over 800,000. It shows you your ranking in the world, and I was something in the 2,000s. I was pretty amazed. That’s pretty good right? In the world?? And I was playing for fun.
I thought: what if I actually practiced. What if I could get a world record??
Dan and I recently watched The King of Kong, a documentary on a challenger trying to beat the world record for Donkey Kong. It sounds funny, but it’s actually a great drama. There is a whole council set up to verify scores and establish official world records. (available streaming on netflix)
Then I thought, I could try to get a documentary started on me attempting to get a bejeweled world record. Harmless little Asian girl vying for top merits in an arcade game.
I asked Dan if he would support me and he said yes, absolutely.
This morning, Dan sends me an article of the current world record holder:
Are you effing kidding me?! over two BILLION points?? He actually BEAT the game- I didn’t know that was possible? Bejeweled/Pop Cap founder explains that this player Mike, achieved the highest calculable score, causing his score to actually flip and go into the negatives. He is featured on Bejeweled.com.
I felt like I did in elementary school when I was planning on being the first Asian female President of the United States and then I found out you had to be a native-born citizen. My hopes and dreams were crushed.
For now, I think I’ll stick to recreational bejeweled and keep searching for another claim to fame.