Steve Wiebe Fails To Set Record
By Jeffrey | March 13, 2008
Well, unfortunately it looks like Steve Wiebe has fallen short of reaching a new high score in Donkey Kong.
Playing in front of a fluctuating crowd of 1,900 party attendees in the TAO Nightclub (Venetian Casino), Steve Wiebe made two attempts at the DK record, first scoring 929,800 points and reaching the “Kill Screen” and then 579,300 points on the second try. According to Twin Galaxies records, this is the sixth time someone has reached the “Kill Screen” during a public gaming performance (3 times by Billy Mitchell and 3 times by Steve Wiebe). During this run, Steve slowly fell off the pace for a world record score as Walter Day continually compared Steve’s mounting score to the pace maintained by Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell during past games that reached or exceeded 1-million-points.
The second game saw Steve maintaining a higher scoring pace, point-pressing at a rate that would have come close to a 1-million-point score. However, Steve’s game lasted only until level 13-6, scoring 579,300 points. In Steve’s first game, he held onto his first man until the 453,400-point-mark. In the second game, he first died at 326,000 points.
Still, as someone who gets excited just to get 70 or 80,000 points in a DK session I am still impressed with Wiebe’s skills.
Read the full story at Twin Galaxies here.
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