Nick Gallucci just finished the fifth and final level needed to become the world’s faster player at the video arcade game “Tapper.”  “Did I win?” he asked the official Guinness judge.  “No,” the judge simply said.  At that moment, you could actually see the heartbreak through his body language as he stared down helplessly at the floor, wondering if he had the will — and a another quarter — to try again.

He came in third place.

This was consistent theme throughout the night at Barcade in Brooklyn, New York, as Guinness World Records hosted a special event to give anyone willing a chance at making history by setting new records at a number of classic arcade machines.

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Sean Avery of the New York Rangers is among he most annoying players in the NHL.  If you’re a Rangers fan, you love him.  If you’re a fan of the opposing team, you hate him.  And while Avery’s career on the ice hasn’t been hall-of-fame worthy just yet, his off the ice antics have received
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If you like video games, then you’ll love the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Plaza.  Even if you’re the parent of two annoying 10-year-olds who dreads the thought of going to a place that sells video games, you’ll still love this store.  This two-story fun house is jammed pack with stuff to look at and play around with.  It’s pretty much the video game equivalent of Apple’s store, but with Pokemom. Lots and lots of Pokemon.

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If you’re going to commit insurance fraud by attempting to injure yourself, please, don’t ever consider jumping in front of a taxi.  Besides getting seriously hurt, you won’t get much of a payout, either. It seems the maximum insurance payout by the Taxi and Limousine Commission is only $200,000.  Donna Smith of Manhattan found out
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It’s bad enough close to a million dollars was wasted on two giant fish tanks, but when several of the expensive fish die unexpectedly two weeks later, you have to wonder what the hell is up. The Staten Island ferry terminal recently installed two tanks holding around 400 tropical fish. Things were going smoothly until
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Park Slope, the center of the stroller wars, will be getting a new toy store.  For the baby-boom area, that’s a good thing, right?  Well, not when the store sells sex toys, according to some.  Babeland, which also has two other stores in Soho and the Lower East Side, looks to open a new location
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The Hillary-Obama political ads will no longer be the only commercial attacks on television. Starting today, the New York City Teachers Union will begin their 30-second smear campaign against—get this—standardized tests! That’s right. Teachers against tests! What kind of world are we living in? What’s next? Friendly, patient NYC drivers? "A child’s mind is a
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As if the cost of the living in New York City wasn’t making us cry already, the most expensive townhouse just went on the market, for only $64 million. Well, the Fifth Avenue property does have 15 bedrooms, 17 bathrooms, seven fireplaces, one ballroom and an elevator. "This house is one of the most magnificent
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You know that feeling you get when you read a story about some no-name Joe who makes a fortune off a really dumb idea?  It’s the one where you realize you’ve wasted thousands of dollars and years off your life trying to get a degree just so you can maybe get by.  Well, get ready
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My roommate plays The Birthday Massacre from time to time, so when I saw they were playing live at the Highline Ballroom last Thursday, we decided to go check them out. Not knowing a lot about this group going in, I didn’t know what type of crowd to expect. It turns out that, if you’re
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