[B]George Costanza of Seinfeld is no longer king of the hill any more when it comes to Frogger. A Connecticut man has broken the mythical record and secured his place in the Guinness World Records Gamers Edition.[/B]

Pat Laffaye of Westport, Conn., broke the record on his personal Frogger unit located in a storage room in his home. He records each of his games to be verified by Twin Galaxies, which authenticates videogame high scores. He broke the recoprd on Dec. 22, and it took him more than five hours. The final tally: 896,980, besting the the TV show mark of 860,630.

An [URL=http://www.westport-news.com/ci_14177300]article in the Westport News[/URL] chats with Laffaye and also with Andy Robin, who wrote several of the Seinfeld episodes, but not the videogame one entitled "The Frogger." Even though the game is old by today's standards, Laffaye has played the game for years and has been in a variety of tournaments involving the game. He still plays on a regular basis:

[INDENT]"The game is elegantly simple at first glance," said Laffaye. "Just make a little frog cross a road and a river, what's so hard about that? However, its true difficultly is completely disguised in that there are at least a dozen ways to get killed."[/INDENT]But how did an arcade game make it into a Seinfeld episode, Robin wasn't exactly sure, but he remembered the discussion surrounding the episode in April 1998. But he does remember that a few hundred thousand points were added to the real existing record.

Robin, who was a competitive gamer in the 80s found it interesting that someone would go out of their way to break a record created for a TV show:

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