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Human accomplishment, in all its weird and wonderful forms, has been proudly celebrated and documented by GAMES. Since the first issue in 1977, there has been no shortage of articles about gamers with extraordinary abilities. You may remember reading about Mandi Martin. In 1979, she played pinball for 505 hours to set a world record. Or perhaps Billy Mitchell is more familiar to you. Mitchell set several video game high scores during the zenith of the arcade age in the mid to late 1980s, but later came under scrutiny for falsifying his scores. GAMES reviewed his appearance in the 2007 motion picture The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Several daredevils made the pages of GAMES, too. Henri LaMothe made an impression by diving from tall buildings into shallow pools of water. And then there’s Michel Lotito. He ate a bicycle.

Despite the fatiguing physical demands and safety risks that are inherent to these