Donkey Kong Arcade World Record Broken

Thanks to EvilAvatar for pointing to a TwinGalaxies report revealing the world record on the classic Donkey Kong has been smashed, with a score of 947,200 by Washington gamer Steve Wiebe. According to the post, "Steve's achievement took nearly 2 hours of game play, and although he had lost his third life relatively early in the game, he kept things going for a remarkable period of time, reminding gamers everywhere: 'Never give up, never say die', classic advice from another Donkey Kong master, legendary gamer Bill Mitchell." Detailed stats reveal there are 116 playable screens that you can complete before reaching the impossible-to-complete 'kill screen' on this classic title, and it appears the magical million mark may theoretically be attainable.

Comments

Million points?

[jvmatthe]

Well, unless he missed a ton of bonuses somewhere along the way, he'd have to jump an extra 528 barrels (at 100 pts per barrel) to reach a million points. At 5 seconds per barrel that's 2640 extra seconds of playing, or 44 minutes. Also, jumping barrels is probably a sure-fire way to lose that third man even earlier.

Which is worse? That he plays Donkey Kong obsessively to the point of making it onto the front page of Slashdot or that I spent the time estimating the time it would take for him to break a million points the next time he shoots for the record? Maybe I should do a risk-analysis while I'm pissing away time...

Re:I don't have the attention span

[ip_vjl]

Actually, that's the basic reason why I do play games like Donkey Kong.

It's nice to be able to load up something like Donkey Kong or Dig Dug and play for 15 minutes as a diversion. On the other hand, to pull up any of the newer MMORPGs or FPS games and you'd better have a couple hours to spare.