Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., May 29 (UPI) -- An 80-year-old Florida woman is planning an attempt to become the arcade video game Q*bert world champion. Doris Self, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., eats, drinks and sleeps Q*Bert, the classic video game from the early 1980s. If she breaks the Q*bert record, she'll regain her title as the oldest video game world champion. Advertisement "I was the Q*bert champion in 1984 with a score of 1,112,300 points," said Self. "At that time, I was the oldest video game champ in the world at 58 years old." Her score was bested in 1985, but she still retained the status of "oldest" champion until 2003 when 72-year-old John Lawton, of New Hampshire, captured the title. Self is ready to compete beginning Thursday, in Weirs Beach, N.H., for the world record. "My scores will be verified in person by Twin Galaxies' Walter Day and I must not fail," she said in a statement. Self holds another record -- she became a member of Eastern Airlines' first class of airline stewardesses in 1945.
