Pat Laffaye, of Westport, Connecticut, has done the unthinkable. He beat George Costanza’s fictional Frogger record.
Laffaye is the first person in video gaming history to beat the “Costanza Score” of 860,630 points, set during a classic episode of Seinfeld, according to Twin Galaxies International –the official scorekeeper on all eras of video gaming since 1981.
Laffaye shattered George’s 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’s Eve.
“Even though it was imagined by television writers, Pat has broken one of the most famous scores in pop culture,” Twin Galaxies Division Manager Patrick Scott Patterson said. “Pat’s amazing score will now forever be attached to not only Twin Galaxies history, but pop culture trivia as well.”