If there is one thing that the documentary film King of Kong firmly established it is that Steve Wiebe wants desperately to hold the world record high score in Donkey Kong. The film portrayed him as the intrepid underdog to Billy Mitchell's corrupt and insipid gaming high score empire. Whether or not this is the case is something that is a bit up in the air, but what wasn't up in the air was the fact that Billy Mitchell still held the world record score for the classic game at the end of the film. Since then Wiebe has attempted four times to beat the score, but has failed.
Time to dust the joystick off, Wiebe is back. He will sit back down in front of the freakishly difficult Donkey Kong and try again. Wiebe has announced that he will be attempting to break the high score record on June 2 at E3 this year. What's going to be different this time? Well, he'll be under a ton of a lot more pressure because it's going to be televised live on G4. How embarresing will it be if he dies on the first barrell?
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11:00 PM on 04.05.2009
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*SHRUGS*
just saying
Here a list of high scores for donkey Kong Arcade From Twin Galaxies.
1 100.00 % 1,050,200 Billy L Mitchell 06/26/2007
2 99.90 % 1,049,100 Steve J Wiebe 03/23/2007
3 85.26 % 895,400 Scott Kessler 05/30/2008 4 83.72 % 879,200 Timothy F Sczerby 04/23/2001
5 76.34 % 801,700 Stephen K Boyer 11/04/2007
6 73.10 % 767,700 Tim Jackson 02/01/1983
7 56.29 % 591,200 Jeffrey Brandt 10/25/1982
8 55.77 % 585,700 Shawn Cram 10/25/2008
9 54.12 % 568,400 Brian Kuh 05/11/2001
Haven't you heard... He's perfect.
Bill Mitchell: I've pointed out to Steve that he's the person he is today because he came under the wrath of Bill Mitchell.
Billy Mitchell: ...but competitive gaming, when you wanna attach your name to a world-record, when you want your name written into history, you have to pay the price!
;)
subtlety isn't one of your stronger points now is it?
also, i think that was the point of making it into a movie..
:]
The one with Bono and poo? That's because it was a parody of King of Kong.
Mitchell wasn't as horrible as he was to Wiebe in the film. They actually met a few times and that "ditching Weibe at the diner thing" was fake. Even then, I still want Wiebe to win.
Mitchell had a chance to see the movie before release where he could have cried "fowl" and asked them to re-edit it, but he declined, saying something along the lines of that it was just another film or news clip he was in.
Hi ////,
I don't think theres anything we can do.
I'm not familiar with the circumstances of your history with TG, but judging from my own, I can see how one can easily get screwed over in the name of politics and/or profit.
I actually have a copy of the game I played 9 years ago that was the "real" one that beat Billy's long standing record from the 80's.....NOT Webie. The whole KoK thing is built starting from a purposely manufactured lie.
I made 2 copies, one I sent to TG, the other I kept for myself....THAT I STILL HAVE.
Dwayne Richards and a few other notable people have seen this video from 9 years ago and agree theres no disputing it, it was all legit,
Seth Gordan intentionally lied. I was screwed out of my right full place in KoK.
I can't tell you how angry I am that an accomplishment I originaly did was simply taken away from me with intentional lies, handed over to someone else (they purposely lied to do it) so they could all profit! NOW THERE'S A MOTION PICTURE IN THE WORKS?! I got zero!
I'm the one who first actually beat Billys long standing score, can prove it and they hand it to Webie and B.S. the public with a so-called ..."documentary"?
Trying to explain the truth about the whole KoK thing to the general public is like trying to explain quantum physics to a taylors dummy. No one wants to hear it even though you can back up your argument with truth and videotape.
The public actually thinks KoK is a real life,real events documentary.
Both these Film people and TG now have a lot of $$$ tied up in the KoK sham.
Time S.
You can explain quantum physics?
Hi ////,
I don't think theres anything we can do.
I'm not familiar with the circumstances of your history with TG, but judging from my own, I can see how one can easily get screwed over in the name of politics and/or profit.
I actually have a copy of the game I played 9 years ago that was the "real" one that beat Billy's long standing record from the 80's.....NOT Webie. The whole KoK thing is built starting from a purposely manufactured lie.
I made 2 copies, one I sent to TG, the other I kept for myself....THAT I STILL HAVE.
Dwayne Richards and a few other notable people have seen this video from 9 years ago and agree theres no disputing it, it was all legit,
Seth Gordan intentionally lied. I was screwed out of my right full place in KoK.
I can't tell you how angry I am that an accomplishment I originaly did was simply taken away from me with intentional lies, handed over to someone else (they purposely lied to do it) so they could all profit! NOW THERE'S A MOTION PICTURE IN THE WORKS?! I got zero!
I'm the one who first actually beat Billys long standing score, can prove it and they hand it to Webie and B.S. the public with a so-called ..."documentary"?
Trying to explain the truth about the whole KoK thing to the general public is like trying to explain quantum physics to a taylors dummy. No one wants to hear it even though you can back up your argument with truth and videotape.
The public actually thinks KoK is a real life,real events documentary.
Both these Film people and TG now have a lot of $$$ tied up in the KoK sham.
Time S.
Dammit needz moar quantum physics!