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

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

[Kjella]

If people had waaaaaaaaay too much time on their hands would they cure cancer or be the next Tolkien? I'm guessing we'd see a lot more records like this, as long as you do it on your own time and dime hey it's your life. I'm not pretending I'd be all that much better, but then I don't expect anyone to pay me for it either...

Re: Wes the Neckbeard

[PopeRatzo]

I banged your mother last night. The bitch screamed really loud.

I forgot to get her something for Mother's Day, so I hope you showed her a good time. She's really hard to shop for.