If you know me well enough then you probably know that my lovely wife Lisa is also a huge video game nut. She isn’t too interested in the fixing part, she’s more interested in playing. Not really playing, more like destroying anyone in her path. A bit competitive you might say.

Back when I got started in the hobby, my friends invited us to a party in a basement full of games and talked trash the weeks leading up to the party. Lisa calmly accepted their Galaga challenge and waited for the day to arrive.

After half a red stripe, Lisa proceeded to play Galaga with a buzz, she’s a lightweight. They taunted and heckled, but all jibes quickly subdued after she surpassed the current HS on the game, around 250k. People just walked away after she more than doubled it. I’m not positive, but I think she put up about 750k that night on my friends machine. A respectable score.

Years later at our old house in the city, I was sitting around working and keeping an eye on Nathan, when I realized Lisa had vanished. I searched and found her in the basement playing Galaga. Not just playing it but kicking its butt. She ended with a score over 1.3million and could have gone farther as she still had 4 lives left. She just got tired and had sore wrists. I think with a little effort we could easily get her name in the top 10 Galaga scores on Twin Galaxies. Game on!