Editing Missile Command (section)

===Marathon settings===
In 1981, Floridian Jody Bowles played a ''Missile Command'' arcade game for 30 hours at The Filling Station Eatery in Pensacola. Bowles scored 41,399,845 points with one quarter using Marathon settings, besting the previous known record, according to Atari spokesman Mike Fournell.<ref>[https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ydUTAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KwYEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4104,1725781&dq=missile-command+game&hl=en Man Plays Video Game 30 Hours To Win Record With One Quarter.] ''Ocala Star-Banner''. 4 May 1981.</ref> The record was broken when Victor Ali of the United States scored 80,364,995 points in 1982.

Beginning on March 15, 2013, Victor Sandberg of Sweden scored 81,796,035 points live on [[Twitch (service)|Twitch]] after 56 hours of play.<ref name="DiskborsteMC's Twitch channel">[http://sv.twitch.tv/diskborstemc DiskborsteMC's Twitch.tv channel]</ref> On December 27 of the same year, Sandberg started a 71-hour and 41 minute game with a score of 103,809,990—10 points short of getting an additional 176 cities.<ref name="DiskborsteMC's Twitch channel"/>