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Since the movie documentary 'King of Kong' (wiki, imdb, movie on youtube) from 2007 was released the game got a new attraction. Since then the gamestyle has changed because it was discovered that the game has a kill screen aka end screen (youtube) and new players started playing because of the popular movie. The goal is to hit a new worldrecord. For a new highscore a good strategy is needed, and luck. DK Experts believe a score between 1,2 - 1,4 million points is possible. To do a perfect DK game the kill screen must be seen. This happens at the start of Level 22. Normaly the points of this kind of game are between 900.000 and 1 million and the game length is around 2,5 hours.
These new DK players that started about three years ago, are PC MAME players using mostly keyboard. The winner of the Kong Off 2 Tournament is Jeff Willms, coming directly from MAME. According to donkeykongblog, Willms never played before on a arcade machine and could adapt to the arcade controls. The worldrecord highscore wasnt touched this time, but the tournament got many kill screens so that alone is history.
Sidenote: If you wanna found out about the "first progamers" check out another documentary called 'Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade' on youtube. It didnt end well.
Links: Kong Off 2 Coverage, VOD's (kongoff, kongoff1, kongoff2)
Edited by Badb0y at 08:46 CST, 21 November 2012 - 2995 Hits
First of all the movie is obviously exaggerated and with some twisted factsso it's more entertaining, but still is kind of a documentary anyway. After the movie the 2 main players went back and forth getting the record, until a new challenger a surgeon called Hank Chien (was that his surname?) appeared after watching the movie and destroyed everyone. Wiebe and Mitchell took the record from him a couple of times, but Chien destroyed once again.
In high score games what matters is doing the highest score on a official machine (not mame) and hopefully live.
- The guy that won the tournament (Willms) did not do the highest score ever recorded. He won an "event", second one hosted in decades, but isn't a world record. He is probably close though and will obviously make the news, but is not the "donkey kong champion" even if it sounds weird after winning an event.
edit: just checked and seems he is 2nd place in arcade, which is unbelievably high in a game that has hours long runs and has random elements.
- Hank Chien (was that his surname?) has the world record, playing in his home arcade, thus he is "the champion".
- Afaik some other dude has the mame record, but as I said it counts as a separate category than doing it on arcade machines and isn't remotely as "important" (won't make the news).
edit: Willms has second place in mame. First ("the other dude") is dean saglio and he achieved 2nd place in the event (arcade).
- And the highest score ever achieved live (under pressure and all that) was made by the infamous Billy Mitchell (no idea if the new guy's score surpasses that). The funny thing is when he did it he passed Chien's old score thus becoming the world champion for both live and home scores, so being the cock he is he stopped playing the moment he passed it so there's a "what if" situation for both records. Maybe Willms (the new mame guy, in opposition to the old one that has the mame record) passed his live score but then again there's the "what if".
tl;dr: Watch King of Kong, great movie that non-gamers will enjoy a lot.
There must be a king of kong 2 telling what happened after the first one. Not a documentary, not some 2 minute interview, but an entertaining short (15 mins) or full fledged movie (plenty of material after the 2 events and 5 years).