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There are many other categories for Donkey Kong besides highest score. One of the most popular is the "No Hammer Challenge" where competitors attempt to get the highest score without any use of the game's hammer item. [34] The current world record in this category was set by Jeff Wolfe on July 8, 2008, with a score of 735,100. [34]
In 2021, Lakeman submitted a new high score for the classic arcade game Donkey Kong to various leaderboards, including Twin Galaxies [17] and Donkey Kong Forum. [18] The score was accepted by Twin Galaxies and Guinness World Records. However, Donkey Kong Forum, a community-run leaderboard, did not accept the score because the forum's high 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.
Mitchell set high-score records on several games in the 1980s and 1990s. Since his initial high score in Donkey Kong in 1982, and record-breaking attempts between 2004 and 2010, others have matched or surpassed Mitchell's scores. In 1982, Mitchell set a record on Donkey Kong with 874,300 points. [5]
In 2013, Twin Galaxies began charging a fee for score submissions. [15] In March 2014, Jace Hall announced that he was the new "Head Custodian and Caretaker of the TWIN GALAXIES organization". [16] On April 28, 2014, the full Twin Galaxies website, including the high score database and forum content, came back online.
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film about competitive arcade gaming directed by Seth Gordon. It follows Steve Wiebe in his attempts to take the high score record for the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong from Billy Mitchell. (Mitchell would be exposed as a cheater a decade later.)
Chien won the first Kong-Off, a Donkey Kong competition which occurred on March 19–20, 2011. The competition featured Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell and eight other competitors. Chien won with a score of 994,400. [4] Hank Chien was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S. with his family at the age of two. [1] He works as a plastic surgeon in Queens ...
Donkey Kong Jr. received an award in the category of "1984 Best Videogame Audio-Visual Effects (16K or more ROM)" at the 5th annual Arkie Awards, where the judges described it as "great fun", and noted that the game was successful as a sequel–"extend[ing] the theme and present[ing] a radically different play-action" than its predecessor ...