"Galaga" has made cameo appearances in films including "WarGames" (1983), "The Karate Kid" (1984), "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (1987), "The Avengers" (2012), and "Pixels" (2015). A submarine named after the game appears throughout the ABC television series "Lost". Hallmark Cards released a "Galaga" arcade cabinet ornament in 2009, which played sound effects from the game. In 2019, researchers at North Carolina State University named an extinct species of shark Galagadon nordquistae, due to the shark's teeth bearing a resemblance to the "Galaga" aliens. "Galaga" is also the subject of several high score-based tournaments; as of 2020, the world record is held by Jordan Dorrington with a score of 20,980,450 points.