Sport is, on one level at least, about the striving for perfection. This drive is seen most clearly in athletics with it's obsession with records and the stringent nature of the regulations governing such factors as the strength of wind-assistance permissable for a record to be recognised.
In the 87 years since Donald Lippincott's 1912 record of 10.6 secs just under a second has been whitteled away from the record. Additionally times are now measured in hundreths of a second now, allowing the illusion of progress to remain. Atheletics is one sport where cheating is reviled above all else (contrast the attitude with the sport of football where cheating is an accepted part of the game). Cheating in atheletics generally takes the form of atheletes consuming illegal, muscle building substances. The triumph of chemistry over training. In a similar way ZXZX is a steroid for the simulation of the athletic. ZXZX strives for perfection, shaving milliseconds off it's own best times.
Video games are taking on an aspect of the sporting. There is a recently established "Professional Gamers League", where games players compete for cash prizes in various genres of game (such as Quake Deathmatch, Starcrafte and others). Billy Mitchell has achieved the distinction of being the first player to achieve the 'perfect' score in Pac-Man. Mitchell's record attempt lasted an exhausting six hours, at the end he had amassed a total of 3,333,360 points, the highest that the game allows. His achievment is noted in the "Twin Galaxies Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records". In the same volume the following records for Track & Field are recorded:
93,240 Jason Wilson, Super Just Games, Northbrook, IL 12/15/97
90,450 Stephen Krogman, Super Just Games, Northbrook, IL 11/30/97
84,280 Jim McGhee, Arnold's on the Ave., Seattle, WA 6/30/84
Twin Galaxies Official Video Game & Pinball Book of World Records