 Discouraged, Day moved back to Fairfield and became a landlord and purchased the Twin Galaxies arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, in 1981.After reading the January 18, 1982 issue of "Time", which featured video games on its cover, Day was inspired to create an international scoreboard database.According to Day's company web site, within six months he was receiving 50 to 75 phone calls per day from video game players around the world wanting to report their high scores.