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On November 7, 1982, Billy Mitchell set the first widely recognized Donkey Kong world record of 874,300 points. [1] [2] The record stood until August 17, 2000, when it was surpassed by Tim Sczerby's score of 879,200. [3] [4] The competition became more prominent after it was covered in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong, which follows the ...
Hank Chien is a former world record holder and two-time "Kong-Off" Champion of the video game Donkey Kong. [2] [3] As of January 2016, his personal best sits at 1,138,600. Chien won the first Kong-Off, a Donkey Kong competition which occurred on March 19–20, 2011.
Mitchell challenged Sanders to Donkey Kong and demonstrated that the game had an impassable "kill screen" at level 22, while beating Sanders and setting a high score of 874,300. [5] Later, Sanders admitted that he had lied about his previous Donkey Kong scores, and Twin Galaxies gave the record to Billy Mitchell who held it for more than 18 ...
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.
Twin Galaxies conducted the first "Classic Video Game World Championship" on June 2–4, 2001, at the Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire.The winner of this renewed video game contest was Dwayne Richard, with Donald Hayes coming in second place.
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.
However, he did not create the D-pad! The D-pad was actually created by William F. Palisek for Tiger Electronics in 1979, and was awarded the patent for it in 1981, a year before the Game & Watch version of Donkey Kong came out. Nintendo's own patent for the Donkey Kong D-pad even mentions Palisek by name. (Sorry for the long-winded response ...
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (not available from November 16, 2012 to February 26, 2015) [6] Rare: Nintendo: May 21, 2007: E ActRaiser: Quintet: Square Enix: May 28, 2007: E10+ Street Fighter II Turbo: Hyper Fighting (delisted in October 2014) Capcom: Capcom: June 25, 2007: T Kirby's Dream Course: HAL Laboratory: Nintendo: July 23 ...