Prince of Frogger?

The 2007 documentary "King of Kong" is somewhere on my long list of favorite movies.

Now, I think we need a "Prince of Frogger." From the Hartford Courant:

Having already set the top score for the video game Frogger a few times since 2005, Patrick Laffaye of Westport, Conn., delved into the fictional world to take down the record claimed by George Costanza.

That would be George Costanza of the Seinfeld show. In a 1998 episode, Costanza tried to save the Frogger machine in the pizza parlor, where he set a record score of 860,630 points.

It took 12 years, but last month Laffaye scored 896,980 to beat Costanza's record.

It gets better...

But in 2005, a powerhouse rivalry emerged between Laffaye and Donald Hayes of New Hampshire. They not only beat the 1982 record but continually beat each other's record. And each time a record was set, Laffaye says, someone would bring up the Seinfeld episode. Beating Costanza, he says, "became the unwritten goal."

Their scores climbed ever higher. Eventually, "pulling a Costanza," as it's known among Frogger intelligentsia, became plausible. The only question was who would actually do it.

Frogger, for those who didn't spend their youths in an arcade, was one of the stars of 1980s video games. The player tries to steer home a frog over a route that features busy two-way streets and other obstacles.

When Hayes grabbed the Frogger record in 2008, Laffaye says a friend brought over a Frogger machine to play at home. "He said, I'm going to buy you one, but you've got to beat Don Hayes, and you've got to bring down Costanza," says Laffaye, 45.

Just like in King of Kong, the new high score has been confirmed by Ottumwa-based Twin Galaxies, the Cooperstown of video games.

Tonight, I'll pop Frogger into my Atari 2600 (yes, I still have it, don't judge) and play a few games in honor of this milestone. Or I'll watch the State of the Union address. Decisions...