New "Perfect Game" Donkey Kong Record May Be Unbeatable (polygon.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Standing in front on a Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, Wes Copeland set a new all-time high score on Thursday, playing Donkey Kong for 3 hours, 20 minutes, and scoring 1,218,000 points."It's how he took the title, though that's so staggering," reports Polygon. "Copeland did not lose a single Mario in the game. He took his first life all the way from the first level all the way to the end, cashing in the extra lives to obliterate all comers." Since the game ends after 22 levels, it will be difficult to surpass Copeland's "perfect game".

For comparison, Steve Wiebe set a high score in 2007 with just 695,500 points in the documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters," eventually bumping his score up to 1,064,500 by 2010. But Thursday, posting a picture of his new high score on Facebook, Copeland announced that "This will be my last record score. I don't believe I can put up a game any higher than this."

Comments

Meh.

[meerling]

I've given up caring about other peoples video game high scores when all the cheating started to really heat up.
If you're interested in that kind of drama, I'm sure you could google it pretty easily.
Though back in the 80s I did meet and have lunch with the world champ of Asteroids at that time. He had so many free lives, we walked over to the cafe, had lunch, and when we got back to the machine, it was still going!

(Cue the immature fools with a worse sense of humor than mine to start up the asteroids jokes now...)

Re: [Going off-topic] This is where UBI would go..

[Anonymous Coward]

I get it in some ways. People pay lots of money to watch sports, while the players spend a lot of their lives training. I get the value in setting a record for running the fastest marathon, setting the single season record for most home runs, or laying down the fastest lap ever on a particular circuit in an F1 car. While I don't find intrinsic value in watching someone play Donkey Kong, I do enjoy watching sports. Maybe someone else's tastes are different. A lot of those sports have origins from skills that are actually useful. You can look up the legend of why a marathon is called a marathon, and why there's a place I'm Greece named Marathon. I certainly can appreciate driving fast cars and the skill and precision required to navigate some circuits. Some of those things are also stuff I did for fun and I'm sure many other people did as well. I certainly appreciate racing someone or trying to hit a ball farther than anyone else. I guess either you get it or you don't.