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I demand another documentary on these three people! The first one proved to be extremely enjoyable. | |
Wow, what a twist. A plastic surgeon who played in his spare time beating a bunch of pros. Both Billy and Steve must be pissed right now. | |
So being skilled at breast-enhancement surgery ALSO makes you skilled in Donkey Kong??? Gentlemen, I think I've found my true calling... | |
A new challenger has appeared! That guy is pretty awesome, practically accidentally getting a world record. Here's hoping for a new documentary! | |
They must be so annoyed... Well done to him. :) | |
How would one go about getting a world record at Pacman? Donkey Kong interests me little. I'm going to start training now. | |
I thought I was going to get bored, but no, the documentary was pretty good. | |
I thought the current score was perfect. All ghosts per power pill, all fruits right up until the kill screen. | |
I could see the reflexes and steady hands of a surgeon, especially one that makes a living from the fiddly cosmetic stuff, making for an awesome gamer. Gratz to him, personally I could never envision myself spending that kind of time on any game, well now that I've quit playing MMOs (worse then any addiction on the planet), but gratz to him for having fun. | |
I love the documentary and it's awesome to see someone finally beat down Billy Mitchell. Actually it's funny, with this the only record Mitchell still has is Pacman, oh but wait a bunch of people have tied that record. Kinda takes away the glory when you're not the only one on top. | |
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters was a great movie! I demand a sequel! | |
Indeed! Althouygh why someone would want to hold a title for such an old game is another question entirely. I suppose congrats to thim for having patience? | |
It's good to see old videos games can still live on, even if almost exclusively for competition. | |
I've come to the conclusion, based on King of Kong and now this, that the quest to get a high score on a classic arcade machine eventually becomes a lot of trolling by those involved, intentional (Mitchell) or not (Chien). | |
Yeah, Billy Mitchell already got the absolute highest score you can get in Pac-Man. The very last screen is broken on one side and there are only a few dots to grab on that screen. | |
It just goes to show: if you are a surgeon, you have a good chance at being good at video games (and vice versa). Chien basically broke the record on accident. Awesome! | |
does he have proof? I remember how the one guy didn't and hes like oh trust me I did it... | |
Damn! That's hardcore. | |
Fuck, Japan takes another record. Us westerners use to be beating them at everything and enforcing our culture on them... *inaudible murmurs* I have to leave this place. | |
A great documentary and congrats to the new champion! Proof that practice and natural talent can yield world record scores! | |
I dont think so...Steve Wiebe is probably pretty happy that he got this recognition and was portrayed as the hero of the documentary, and billy mitchell will always be the gamer of the century. i'll bet you brian kuh's pretty pissed off though. :) | |
That's a lot of barrelhopping to do for over 2 hours. | |
Keep in mind it's enhancing not ogling. | |
This man is an example to us all. | |
Billy and Steve are now going to stitch themselves together to form a hybrid arcade monster. GRAWWWW! | |
Quite possibly the biggest douche in the universe; loved that he was just a hanger-on and Wiebe beat him to FunSpot's first kill screen. | |
I love this rivarly. The game's competition has been going for longer than I can remember and it STILL remains interesting. Congrats to this Hank Chien for mixing it up and breaking the world record. I wonder if someone will ever reach the definite max? | |
Any time someone is honored for what essentially amounts to a completely useless skill, I tip my cap to them. I wish I were as good at my job as some folks are at their hobbies! | |
I call a 1,061,700-gun-salute. One for every point! FIRE! | |
I'm hoping he leans more towards the Steve Wiebe style champion rather than the douche-o-matic champion Billy Mitchell was portrayed as being. There's already enough jerks with world records we don't need any more. | |
At least Wiebe has job security. | |
Good idea! That way the world would run out of bullets and we'd finally have world peace :P | |
*Imagining what Hank Chien is like* "Hi, I'm Hank Chien. I'm a world champion at video games, but when I'm not having fun I'm getting paid by women to work on their breasts." I have never met Hank Chien, but I think I now hate him. | |
he has a game of halfcourt b-ball scheduled with Obama, Honest Abe and David Hayter | |
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Surprise Challenger Sets Donkey Kong Record
Move over, Steve Wiebe. Take a hike, Billy Mitchell. There's a new King of Kong in town, and his name is Hank Chien.
The rivalry between Donkey Kong superstars Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe has been well-chronicled, particularly in the full-length documentary The King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters. In the film, Wiebe stole the Donkey Kong world record score from veteran score-seeker Mitchell, only to have him set it right back after the documentary was released. Wiebe retorted by setting a Donkey Kong, Jr. record, snatching the title from Ike Hall, who himself had broken the record set by - you guessed it - Billy Mitchell.
But there is a new champion of Donkey Kong, and it isn't Billy Mitchell or Steve Wiebe: It's 35-year-old plastic surgeon Hank Chien. Chien racked up a total of 1,061,700 points in 2 hours, 35 minutes before reaching the infamous "kill screen" that prevents players from continuing, breaking Mitchell's score of 1,050,200 from 2007 (the aforementioned post-King of Kong attempt).
Two officials from videogame scoreboard site Twin Galaxies - David Nelson of New Hampshire and Eric Akeson of Washington state - verified the new record, set on an original Donkey Kong machine in Chien's home town of New York, New York. To make matters more interesting, Chien is a relative newcomer to the pro-Kong scene, having been introduced to it by The King of Kong film. "The King of Kong piqued my interest in the game," said Chien, "and after watching the documentary I started to play seriously in November 2008. Back then I wasn't shooting for any world records; I was just playing for fun."
However, after a casual 2-hour session before he caught a flight for a business trip led Chien to break 1 million points, he realized that the world record was potentially in his grasp. After preparing himself for the feat and refining his techniques, he was ready to take the plunge in the early part of 2010 - and he succeeded.
Though The King of Kong might have been what inspired Chien to take up Jumpman and rescue the girl from the gorilla, he says he found the portrayal of scorekeepers Twin Galaxies to be inaccurate. "In the King of Kong, Twin Galaxies was portrayed as showing favoritism to established players and showing skepticism of any 'outsiders.' My experience has been the complete opposite."
Congratulations, Hank Chien. But watch out - now you'll have two people gunning for your title.
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