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In March 2010, Chien surpassed Wiebe's record score. [6] Wiebe achieved a new record score on August 30, [7] but Chien, who became known as Dr. Kong, reclaimed the world record and held it for four years. [5] Chien improved his record four times, before withdrawing from competitive play. [8] In September 2014, Robbie Lakeman overtook Chien's score.
Steven J. Wiebe (/ ˈ w iː b i /; born January 3, 1969) is an American two-time world champion of the video game Donkey Kong, most recently holding the title from September 20, 2010, to January 10, 2011, with a high score of 1,064,500. Wiebe was the first person to achieve over a million points on Donkey Kong, with 1,006,600 on July 4, 2004.
Mitchell became curious whether Donkey Kong had a recorded world-record high score, and reached out to Walter Day—at Twin Galaxies, at the time a single arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa—who had started tracking such records. Day told Mitchell of a record of 1.4 million points claimed by Steve Sanders.
Restaurateur Billy Mitchell holds the high score for several arcade games, including the original 1981 release of Donkey Kong. In Redmond, Washington, out-of-work engineer Steve Wiebe has purchased a Donkey Kong cabinet in hopes of achieving the world record. Using his mathematical knowledge to identify exploitable patterns in the game, Wiebe ...
Robbie Lakeman is a competitive video game player who holds the world record for the arcade games Donkey Kong (1981), Stratovox (1980), and Super Pac-Man (1982). [1] He also formerly held the record score for the 1976 arcade game Death Race.
The world's tallest man, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of Records, is Robert Pershing Wadlow, who was born in 1918 in Alton, Ill. Standing at a colossal 8'11.1″ (2.72 m) and weighing in at ...
The 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters portrays Steve Wiebe's attempts to break the Donkey Kong world record, then considered to have been held by Billy Mitchell. [16] In the early 2010s, Hank Chien set a record of 1,138,600 points. This was broken four years later by Robbie Lakeman with a score of 1,141,800. [17]
The 76-year-old Hamilton is the all-time winningest men's basketball coach in program history with a record of 434-290 to go along with 16 postseason appearances, including eight NCAA tournament ...