Hank Chien Reclaims Donkey Kong High Score

Posted by Soulskill on Monday January 10, 2011 @11:36PM from the barrels-of-fun dept.

An anonymous reader writes "If you can say anything about Hank Chien, it's that he evidently doesn't take defeat very well. Sure, he knew not so deep down that his Donkey Kong World Record score wouldn't last forever, but he couldn't have foreseen that it would have been toppled so quickly. Twice, even. But he also knew that more Kong competition would be coming his way; namely Richie Knucklez Kong-Off in March. So Hank had something to prove, and prove he did. Scoring a massive 1,068,000 points in less than three hours, Hank has officially reclaimed the high score in Nintendo’s 1981 arcade classic."

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This why Rome fell by Madman · 2011-01-10 23:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Rome had bread and circuses, now we have contests for old games. When a civilization has the time to waste on things like this it's the beginning of the end.
1. Re:This why Rome fell by Anonymous Coward · 2011-01-11 00:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Rome had bread and circuses, now we have contests for old games.
  And thus we prove that any civilisation with both bread and circuses is pretty much over. They should build that into Civ VI but it might be a bit TOO much realism - "three people in your empire are playing Donkey Kong excessively, you have three rounds to stamp it out or lose the game".
2. Re:This why Rome fell by e70838 · 2011-01-11 01:12 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  I take my sudoku when I go to the toilets.