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The New Kings of Kong
Daniel_Stuckey writes "Ever since Chien won the inaugural Kong Off at Richie Knucklez Arcade Games in Flemington, NJ back in 2011, Lemay has been nipping at Chien's heels. His guiding mission in life now, other than getting Hulked out at the gym, is annihilating Hank Chien at Donkey Kong. Last month, Motherboard traveled to Denver, Colorado, to attend The Kong Off 3, the highly anticipated and near-capacity Donkey Kong world championship, held at the 1UP arcade and bar. During four loopy days of shooting inside a subterranean cave of amusement, which assaulted our senses with flashing lights, blippity bloops, and killscreens, we witnessed first-hand the drama of a showdown between a video game's top contenders."
If I had a nickel for every time I stuffed a quarter in that game...
Even just the times I played while wearing roller skates...
If you're going to go old school, do it right.
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
Who won the stupid game?
Expect me to read a 1500 word article on stupid game do you? I already put my time in with that movie. I think you greatly overestimate how much I care about who has the hi score.
How can life go on when I'm not sure who won?f
Like cure the sick, help the poor, etc.
Become a surgeon, perhaps?
My God, it's Full of Source!
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What have you done then, o great life liver! Tell us all your great deeds so we may applaud you!
Do something productive with your life, develop a real skill. Like cure the sick, help the poor, etc.
Why stop at this?
I mean, there's endless possibilities, like: heal the sick, cure all disease, drive out demons, open blind eyes, heal the broken hearted, walk on the water, turn water into wine, raise the dead, etc.
Some say there was someone that did all of the above. How's the world better now because of it?
(my point: you are free to consider it a waste of time for yourself. But why cast stones on those who see it otherwise?)
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
It wasn't until I got to the link that I had any idea what the fuck I was reading about.
Do something productive with your life, develop a real skill.
Not to dissuade from your rant, but that is, in fact, a real skill.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Ever since Chien (who?) won the inaugural Kong Off (the what?) at Richie Knucklez Arcade Games in Flemington, NJ back in 2011, Lemay (who?)has been nipping at Chien's (who again?) heels. His guiding mission in life now, other than getting Hulked out at the gym, is annihilating Hank Chien at Donkey Kong (ah!). Last month, Motherboard (who or what?) traveled to Denver, Colorado (okay, now you're just making up words)
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
It was on the news several times, it had full page ads in The Westword, ads on the radio, and posters all over town. Yet, you seem surprised to hear about this. Did you just get back from active duty or something? Or maybe you just don't get out enough to realize Denver is actually kind of a happenin' place.
Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool.
Jeff Willms won with 1,096,200.
Chien was third with 1,056,900
No sig today...
Daniel_Stuckey for writing a terrible summary or samzenpus for posting the terrible summary?
Mostly pattern. We used to maintain notebooks with the winning routes.
Same with most of the original old-school games. However, later versions of most games were more random than their originals.
(glasses) ...it's on.
(YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!!)
I'd love to troll them by going there and basically turning it into Xbox Live meets every LAN party ever. I'd start swearing at Donkey Kong and calling his mother a whore and accusing him of aimbotting and cheating and hacking and exploit-using and stealing my loot drops.
So it's pretty much established that you can get a high score on DK by using patterns. How well would these fellows fare at playing a different game? Is DK the only thing at which they can excel?
Lets face it, saying that you got high score on a 30+ year old video game by using patterns is not that impressive. Go back to 1983, and you'll be a hero. Today, you're just another loser.
"the highly anticipated and near-capacity Donkey Kong world championship, held at the 1UP arcade and bar."
*Yawn* looking at the images I can find on the web, "capacity" is maybe a couple of hundred people. You'd have to have a very narrow special interest or live in a very remote area to *not* be able to gather that kind of 'crowd'.
Totally, bro.
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Lets face it, saying that you got high score on a 30+ year old video game by using patterns is not that impressive. Go back to 1983, and you'll be a hero. Today, you're just another loser.
No one's a loser for doing what they love.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Just let me know if anyone wants to be the world champion of Space Duel. Til then i am still claiming it !
Ah, the good old days. Was traveling with a Drum Corps at the time and set high scores on every single machine i came across all over the country for a few years from Seattle's Space Needle to Disneyworld.
Didn't see how long that takes them to do. I went up to 45 min per game of Space Duel and that was a LOT of little asteroids :)
Hmm, almost everyone one of those scores was higher than the current world record :/
Conservative Donkey Kong play does not get you a world record. The bonus for finishing a board goes down faster than you can sustain earning points once all the hammers are gone. That means that the faster you get through the low scoring parts of the board, the higher your score. And with only a limited number of boards to play before the kill screen, the core of top tier play is balancing how much risk you're willing to take on to finish the board with higher points. If you are too conservative, even if you make it to the kill screen you'll lose too many bonus points to approach record territory. That's why runs all the way to the kill screen used to be good if they hit 850,000 points, but nowadays people are pulling over a million through the same path. Players are increasing their risk to get more points.
At the first Kong Off I bought a cheap DVD from Steve Wiebe with a video of his entire world record game, that's available for other people to study. Mixed in with some boring waiting games are amazingly skilled sections of jumping and timing.
What if you love losing?
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