The New Kings of Kong

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Posted by samzenpus on Thursday December 12, 2013 @05:31PM from the goodbye-billy dept.

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."

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Sooo Many Games... by EETech1 · 2013-12-12 17:42 · Score: 3, Funny

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...
1. Re:Sooo Many Games... by BringsApples · 2013-12-12 18:00 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  omfg dude, the memories that you just spawned off in me! I had totally forgotten about arcade gaming with skates on. I think it was a custom to SLAM the bumper of the skate into the bottom of the game in order to use it to stop yourself. And when you die, faaade backwards, back to the rink. Jesus Christ, I can almost smell the place, and feel that cold air breeze that seems to come along with all rinks.
  
  Thanks!
  
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2. Re:Sooo Many Games... by JustOK · 2013-12-12 21:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  nickleback sucks!
  
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Re: get a life by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-12 18:39 · Score: 3, Insightful

What have you done then, o great life liver! Tell us all your great deeds so we may applaud you!
Summary respects hose dongle nack by Max+Threshold · 2013-12-12 19:37 · Score: 2

It wasn't until I got to the link that I had any idea what the fuck I was reading about.
Re:get a life by phantomfive · 2013-12-12 19:57 · Score: 3, Insightful

Do something productive with your life, develop a real skill.
Not to dissuade from your rant, but that is, in fact, a real skill.

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Huh? by wonkey_monkey · 2013-12-12 20:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

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)

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Re:And then what... by Joce640k · 2013-12-12 21:09 · Score: 2

Jeff Willms won with 1,096,200.
Chien was third with 1,056,900

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Re:Does old school DK go pattern? by bigwheel · 2013-12-13 00:36 · Score: 3, Insightful

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.