Gamer Cashes in on Take Two's Million Dollar Challenge
Gamer Cashes in on Take Two's Million Dollar Challenge
Posted 05/06/2010 at 5:09am
| by Paul Lilly
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Wade McGilberry and his wife Katy can now pay off their mortgage and start a family on a positive financial foot, and it's all because Wade's a gamer. Give Take Two a bit of credit as well for offering a $1 million prize to the first person to pitch a perfect game in Major League Baseball 2K10.
Wade, a 23-year-old from Mobile, Alabama, accomplished the feat in just 90 minutes, which is probably a lot sooner than the publisher would have liked. For the McGilberrys, however, it was time well spent.
"I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to do it, but I was going to try my hardest to," Wade said during a phone interview with GamePro.com. "I already told [my wife] that I was going to be taking the TV for the next couple of weeks or so until I did it."
As it turns out, Wade only needed seven tries, most of which was spent ignoring his in-game catcher's suggestions. Instead, he threw a bunch 2-seam fastballs as weak as possible, keeping them low and out of the strike zone. It would turn out to be a strategy that, after taxes, would be worth about $700,000.
Well played, Wade McGilberry, quite literally.
Image Credit: Take Two Interactive
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noobstix
May 06, 2010 at 9:18am
All it took to pitch a perfect game in the hardest difficulty in that game was a bunch of 2-seam fastballs low and away (or inside)? I wonder how his stat sheet looked like after the game (i.e. the # of K's, GO, FO, PO, etc.). Hell, I even wonder what the final score of the game was.
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Keith E. Whisman
May 06, 2010 at 8:29am
I bet his parents called him a loser for spending his every waking moment playing video games. Now look at him. Kids next time your parents tell you that your a loser for playing games all the time just tell them that one day you could get rich from it.
ElderJefferson
May 07, 2010 at 5:29am
Until you come across that 40-year old bum who has no job or family, but somehow manages to play video games all day from his parents' basement...
Yes, I know that guy.
lunchbox73
May 06, 2010 at 6:37am
Ha, that's awesome. If they put up a million bucks I'll bet they didn't expect anybody to pull that off. I don't know anything about that game but that guy's strategy almost sounds like an exploit. Real players would no doubt notice if the pitcher was lobbing the same slow fastball a lot in one game.
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