[citation needed] On February 9, 1982, Day's database of records was released publicly as the Twin Galaxies National Scoreboard.

[citation needed] On November 30, 1982, Ottumwa mayor Jerry Parker declared the town "Video Game Capital of the World", a claim that was backed up by Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, Atari and the Amusement Game Manufacturers Association in a ceremony at Twin Galaxies on March 19, 1983.

[4][5][6] Beginning in the summer of 1982, Video Games magazine and Joystick published high-score tables taken from Twin Galaxies' data.

[10] In March 1983, Twin Galaxies was contracted by the Electronic Circus to assemble a professional troupe of video game high-scorers.

Though the Circus was scheduled to visit 40 cities in North America, its Boston inaugural performance lasted only five days, closing on July 19.

[16] On April 28, 2014, the full Twin Galaxies website, including the high score database and forum content, came back online.

The US National Video Game Team was founded on July 25, 1983, in Ottumwa, Iowa, by Walter Day and the Twin Galaxies Intergalactic Scoreboard.

[17][18][19][20][21] Twin Galaxies conducted the first "Classic Video Game World Championship" on June 2–4, 2001, at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.

The documentary was critical of Twin Galaxies' handling of challenges to long-established top scores and suggested that its organizational structure is rife with conflicts of interest.

[non-primary source needed] Frag, a feature documentary about modern professional gamers, was released on DVD on August 1, 2008, by Cohesion Productions[26] of Cedar Falls, Iowa.

The first ten minutes of the documentary covered Twin Galaxies' role as the pioneers of organized video game playing back in the early 1980s.

Records by both Todd Rogers and Billy Mitchell were invalidated by Twin Galaxies after investigations determined that the scores were not genuine.