In episode 18 of the 9th season of Seinfeld, while visiting Mario’s, a soon to be closed pizza parlour and old high school hangout, George Costanza discovers he still has the high score on the restaurant’s Frogger video game with 860,630 points. Fearing the achievement will be lost once Mario’s goes out of business and in order that the score be preserved as a monument to his unbettered glory, he decides to buy the machine. However, this poses a problem: how to move the machine while keeping it plugged in so that the high score is preserved? On September 24, 2005, Twin Galaxies, the organization that tracks video game world records offered a $1,000 cash prize to anyone who could beat Costanza’s fictional record. The prize went unclaimed; no one was able to improve on his score already of more than 10 years standing before the December 31st deadline. Nearly 4 years later, on December 22, 2009, Pat Laffaye of Westport, Connecticut, achieved a Frogger world record high score of 896,980 points. No other Frogger game has been verified as having beaten the fictional George Costanza Seinfeld score.
A perfect Pac-Man game occurs when the player achieves the maximum possible score on the first 255 levels (by eating every possible dot, energizer, fruit, and ghost) without losing a single life then scoring as many points as possible in the last level. At which point, a glitch in the original game code that corrupts the bottom of the screen and right half of the maze results in an unplayable stage, effectively ending the game with a score of 3,333,360.
In reverse order of scale: a man with a magnifying glass; the earth; information.