Plastic surgeon retakes Donkey Kong crown

I could beat this record easily. But I have no intrest in proving so. I don't care that much about having a world DK record. Waste of my time.

There are no patterns and no memorization in Donkey Kong. If there were everyone would be able to do it. That's what makes Donkey Kong so interesting. It plays different everytime. It's more sophisticated than modern games in many ways. As for recorded versus live scores. I agree live scores carry more weight. But if you have a hole-in-one on tape, and you can't do it live, does that mean it never happened? With all the stringent recording rules, I'd be more likely to believe a recorded score than a live score.

STOP ARGUING!

@shaun_ofda_dead First of all COD is crap as well. FPS games lost their luster as soon as Halo hit the market. Second of all it has nothing to do with donkey kong being challenging. It has to do with the fact that it is BORING. I'd rather pick lint from my scrotum for an hour than subject myself to that piece of crap.

@VenkmanPHD You should of just took the credit I gave you on the higher score. Now you previous comment looks really really really dumb. For real. Guess you can't handle a challenging game, so stick to COD and don't leave stupid comments on news articles that you don't care about, ok? :D

@shaun_ofda_dead Try more like 130. And I'm proud of that, because I stopped playing that dumb*** game after level 1 back in the 6th grade.

Well, the guy's a successful individual in the medical field, so at least you can't say he's "wasting his life" on this.

Oh, no, he didn't!

I agree with Zzombielemur, what's the point of doing this with this old game? I mean at this point, it's got to be much more of a stress-causing obsession rather than something enjoyable, and hell the payoff/rewards of spending that much time to get so good are bare minimum at best.

@demonkingx5 No thanks. I'd rather play a game with a story. Never been a high score person. Never had the motivation or the drive to play a game for that long. Couldn't care less about it really.

Come on, Wiebe! Take your title back.

@ryogapower Yeah because it's so impossible to fake those scores on a videotape. Wait, no it isn't! It's amazingly easy to do with common software and a vcr. If you remember the video in question in the movie had odd jumps and visual distortions that were extremely suspicious. Bottom line: Do it with a judge(s) in public for it to be considered legit.

man how much money would I have saved in the arcades if I was this good at that game!!

Wow - more serious than some "sporting" events :P

I love how serious this is .. !

What we have Here is the epitome of the phrase "It's On Like Donkey Kong"

Credit given where credits due, thats one hell of a record and the rest will be scrambling to beat it. I wonder how long it will last, ive never played the game but considering the time and the fact no one else has got that high im impressed. Guess the doc's got some major bragging rights now

dedication! i can barely get past the third level

Ah, Donkey Kong. You can't beat the classics.

@GatsuBlackSword : I was thinking the exact same thing. Wouldn't be awesome to do a documentary about that Kong Off competition and call it : "The King of Kong 2 - For a few quarters more" :D

I hope this is leaning towards a new documentary being made.

THIS IS HUGE NEWS!! (don't know if I'm being sarcastic or not)

thats alot of barrels

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they should try beating donkey kong country returns without losing a life if anyone could do it..might be one of these dudes

"Kong Off" Lol

Ah, points... Today they only exit as Achievements and in XBLA arcade games.

If you haven't watched King of Kong, do it! You obviously love gaming if you're around gamespot's forums. This is awesome, I love that the classics are still a passion to some!

At least this guy doesn't look like a tool.

Achieving these kinds of scores does make you think, but unfortunately, it was exclusively about pattern recognition, memorization and evaluating risk/reward. The limited construct of the game did reduce the amount of creativity in their solutions. On a side note, the movie was quite entertaining.

i think the World Records for old arcade games should now be played without the kill screen so the records would be permanently set to a ungodly unattainable level to end all the news about 30 year old games

I seriously wonder exactly how much more can they push and milk the score from Donkey Kong. Especially with the kill screen, and considering how high their scores are, I don't think there many points left before they reach the "limit"

@Zzombielemur & swamptick wow u guys took it too far let see anyone of you get that same high score then come back with some respect for the old games

How magical it must have been to live in an age that condoned the killing of gorillas.

@demonkingx5 I can tell you never really grew up in those times. I am 34 and I can assure you, games today require much more thought.

@demonkingx5 Kong made you think? I hope that's not what you meant to say.

i missed the old days where games actually made us think now its just button smashers & shooters

Yeah, but like....Donkey Kong doesn't have achievements so what's the point?...(joking aside, King of Kong was AWESOME)

you people are SAD!

@GOR_TAK thats what steve weibe had to do in the documentary to prove that his videotaped score was real after being wrongly accused of forgery, so i dont agree, if you have the money and time and skill a videotaped home score is just as valid. king of kong rules. as does chasing ghosts. you couldnt make those guys up!

At least it wasn't Billy Mitchell. That guy is such a douche. Good luck to Steve Wiebe to get it back.

Kudos to Chien. I have King of Kong, and it's an excellent film. All gamers should do well to watch this film. It's a piece of history.

Points? What is this, 1990? :P

@GOR_TAK I read your post solely because of your icon. MST3K for life. Keep circulating those tapes. *Edit: The documentary was okay, but as is the case with almost all documentaries it was clearly one sided and overly dramatic.

I really want to see that documentary... could be very interesting.

Congrats to Chien, though I feel for Wiebe. That guy has spent so many years trying to get out of the shadow of Billy Mitchell I had hoped his record would stand for good. I dont know how they do it. I grew up playing DK and to this day if I can last 5 levels its a big deal!! I bow to them all for their supremecy.

You know what needs to just stop? These records "accomplished" in people's homes without properly delegated witnesses being actually present to see it happen. Do it on a neutral machine located in public and with even at least 1 or 2 judges to watch over the entirety of the game. Otherwise, it simply does not count.

Congrats to these guys for going at it again and again. I honestly don't have the time or patience. I once played the Star Wars (vector graphic one) game for 5.5 hours until the arcade closed. lol!! There is only 99 levels, and after you reach 99 and just stays there. I don't remember what my high score was. I could have played for another 5 hours easily. Those were the days. What was funny is I found the same SW machine as a pizza play with my high score on it. It also ended up at some hangout joint near M.I.T. The machine got around.

Ahh, yes. Nothing like a game of Donkey Kong after sexual reassignment surgery.

That's a sweet looking DK cabinet, they are not very common these days in that condition.