"This [scrutiny] is absolutely something that has been much needed and is part of our controlled process of making sure that the public can control and can trust the data that's in our database," he said. Hall bought TG in 2014, and since then his "administration" has been working to clear the company's reputation. During the organization's early days in the 1980s, founder Walter Day would go around arcades in his native Iowa recording high scores from arcade cabinets and organizing state-level tournaments. These were published in a few places, most notably The Guinness Book of World Records. After Day retired in 2010, ownership changed hands a few times, and at one point, there was an entry fee for score submissions.