Sean's page

Contestant: Sean Kovacs

Sean was 17 when he appeared on Starcade! in 1983 and he was a great player, winning the overall competition and the Grand Prize, an Amidar video arcade game.

Later the same year we invited Sean back to appear on one of the Starcade! Invitational Shows where Starcade! winners played against each other. He made it to the final competition but was beat by a mere 1,840 points ... not much as video game scoring goes.

Games on Sean's shows: Show #65: Bally's Journey, Munch Mobile, Mappy, BurgerTime and Gyruss - Show #73: Wacko, Millipede, Xevious, Star Wars and Mappy.

 In 1983 Sean was the proud owner of a Commodore 64 computer and 'liked to program his own games.'

Sean's interest in video games and computers led him to a career in the field. "After high school I joined the US Navy as a Fire Control Technician (Ballistic) aboard a ballistic missile submarine and eventually became a Missile Technician. When I got out of the Navy I went to work at Microsoft as a Contractor becoming 'hired on' as a software test engineer. I recently left the company to work for Hewlett Packard as an OS Engineer ... "

 Sean's Starcade Memory:  "To this day my appearances on Starcade! remain as some of my fondest memories ever."

"I remember having a total strategy planned out before appearing on the show. " Mappy was Sean's favorite game and one he had hoped to play ... and he did.

According to Sean, today in his spare time he "collects and restores classic video arcade games and keeps them at work, inside his house, in his garage (it's full of them) and in my basement.  I still play arcade games every single day."

Sean's Prizes
Grand Prize: Amidar Video Arcade Game
Name the Game: Scisys Sensor Chess
Overall Winner Prize Show #65: TI Computer & MOnitor
Runner-Up Prize Show #73: ColecoVision

SHOW #65
Game: Gyruss

Time Limit: 50 seconds
Sean: 3,950
Steve: 2,050 

Game: Munch Mobile

Time Limit: 50 seconds
Sean: 2,230
Steve: 80 

Game: BurgerTime

Time Limit: 40 seconds
Sean: 2,750
Steve: 500 

Grand Prize Play

Game Played: Mappy

 Score to Beat: 2,123 Scored: 2,123+
SHOW #73
Starcade Invitational featuring 4 Starcade! winners

Sean Kovacs vs Lawrence Lee
Colin Adkins vs Tony LaVigna

Final Round:
Sean Kovacs vs Colin Adkins
Round 1 Wacko Millipede
Sean 3,600 36,731
Lawrence 900 39,321
Final Round Xevious  
Sean 5,170  
Colin 7,010