- Who
- Ben Gold
- What
- first
- Where
- United States (Ottunnwa)
- When
Ben Gold (USA) became history’s first video-game world champion when he won the North American Video Game Olympics at the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard in Ottumwa, Iowa, USA on 8-9 January 1983. The event was broadcast on America's ABC’s That’s Incredible television show on 21 February 1983.
Co-sponsored by Twin Galaxies and That's Incredible (USA, ABC), the event featured nineteen of North America's top players competing on five current titles: Frogger, Millipede, Joust, Super Pac-Man, and Donkey Kong, Jr. This contest continued onward as Twin Galaxies' 'Coronation Day Tournament.'
