The object is to link any actor or actress to Kevin Bacon via movies they were in using as few steps as possible: Person 1 was in Movie A with Person 2 who was in Movie B with Person 3 who was in Movie C with Kevin Bacon. It's actually pretty fun and challenging to do in as few steps as possible. Of course the Internet Movie Database allows people to write programs to calculate the Bacon Number for any person that can be linked to him:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/
The same site has a more general search tool that finds the shortest path between any two actors/actresses:
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/oracle/star_links.html
How does this relate to video games? Glad you asked.
Yep, that's Bruce Boxleitner as the title character in Tron.
What I'm interested in here is who can come up with the name that yields the highest finite Bruce Boxleitner number using the star-links site above. Just type "bruce boxleitner" in the first box, and the name of any person listed in the IMdB in the second. You will be given the second person's "Bruce Boxleitner number" if they can be linked. (Use Movies Only) If they can't be linked, the number will be infinity and doesn't count.
For the name yielding the highest Boxleitner number posted before midnight GMT Wednesday night (For U.S.A. folk that's 8 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 7 PM Central) I have a Golden Era game of the Week t-shirt.
Ties will be broken by earliest posting. If you come up with a number greater than anyone else who is eligible so far, post the number to this thread, and PM me with the name to verify. (The name could be used by other players to try to find a name that scores higher.)
If you've already won a shirt, you're just playing for fun.
I've posted this on two forums. The same person can't win on both.
