Brian Kuh
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| Birth name | Brian Kuh |
| Years active | 1981–present |
| Website | http://www.twingalaxies.com [1] |
Brian Kuh (pronounced "BRY-an KOO") is a competitive gamer who is interviewed in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.
He retired in 2005 from American Marine Bank [1]at age 30 – he was a bank comptroller in New York City – so he could move to Weirs Beach and go to Funspot every day to pursue video game world records full time. In 2007, he broke 16 different world records on the first day of the annual Funspot tournament. At noon on the first day of this competition, he had already broken 10 world records; by 3 p.m., he had broken 17, surpassing his own record for the most video game world records made in a single day.[2]
The seventeen world records in a variety of arcade games in one day on May 31, 2007 at Funspot Family Fun Center.[3] [4] are:
- 1943
- Final Lap
- The Real Ghostbusters
- Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
- Lethal Enforcers
- L.S.A. Squad
- Lunar Rescue
- Mercs
- Rampage
- Sprint 2
- Starship 1
- Stratovox
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Turbo
- Vs. Super Mario Bros.
- Xenophobe
