The Video Game Masters Tournament was an event that was created in 1983 by Twin Galaxies to generate world record high scores for the 1984 U.S.
[1] It was the most prestigious contest of that era and the only one that the Guinness book looked to for verified world records on video games at the time.
[3] In order to administer the contest, Twin Galaxies appointed the U.S. National Video Game Team to the task of collecting and verifying scores from the eight cities that participated in the 1983 edition of this event.
[5][6] The 1985 Video Game Masters Tournament was conducted as a fundraiser to raise donations for CARE.
The fundraiser set aside half of all entry fees for the CARE/Twin Galaxies African Relief Fund.