SanTe
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Highest Donkey Kong score ever recorded happened yesterday
When Dean Sagilo scored 1,206,800 on Donkey Kong playing in MAME back in October 2013, many rightly wondered if the score would ever be broken. Dean was the first to break the 1.2 million barrier and at the time the next highest score ever recorded was Hank Chien's then-world record score of 1,138,600 for the Arcade platform, i.e. playing on original hardware.
A couple of years go by. Then up-and-coming DK players Robbie Lakeman and Wes Copeland spend the next two years swapping the Arcade world record back and forth, pushing the score up a little at a time. The record changed hands between them five times. At one point Wes posted a new world record only to have Robbie beat it back the very next day. All the while Dean's massive MAME score loomed as the elephant in the room.
Recently Robbie posted his current best of 1,190,200, beating Wes' score by only 100 points, taking back the Arcade record at the last possible second on the kill screen. Wes responded shortly after by pushing the Arcade record up another 5,000 points to 1,195,100. Then yesterday happened:
Wes Copeland scores 1,218,000!!!
http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=1635.0
Wes scored 1,173,800 on his first man and was able to sack all of his extra lives for an extra 36,700 points before proceeding to the kill screen. This is certainly the most perfect game of Donkey Kong ever played. With each rise of the highest recorded score the odds of pushing it any further get longer and longer, necessitating many, many more attempts by its best players for it to become less of a statistical impossibility.
Wes' game lasted 3 hrs 16 min 32 sec and currently can be viewed here.
When Dean Sagilo scored 1,206,800 on Donkey Kong playing in MAME back in October 2013, many rightly wondered if the score would ever be broken. Dean was the first to break the 1.2 million barrier and at the time the next highest score ever recorded was Hank Chien's then-world record score of 1,138,600 for the Arcade platform, i.e. playing on original hardware.
A couple of years go by. Then up-and-coming DK players Robbie Lakeman and Wes Copeland spend the next two years swapping the Arcade world record back and forth, pushing the score up a little at a time. The record changed hands between them five times. At one point Wes posted a new world record only to have Robbie beat it back the very next day. All the while Dean's massive MAME score loomed as the elephant in the room.
Recently Robbie posted his current best of 1,190,200, beating Wes' score by only 100 points, taking back the Arcade record at the last possible second on the kill screen. Wes responded shortly after by pushing the Arcade record up another 5,000 points to 1,195,100. Then yesterday happened:
Wes Copeland scores 1,218,000!!!
http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=1635.0
Wes scored 1,173,800 on his first man and was able to sack all of his extra lives for an extra 36,700 points before proceeding to the kill screen. This is certainly the most perfect game of Donkey Kong ever played. With each rise of the highest recorded score the odds of pushing it any further get longer and longer, necessitating many, many more attempts by its best players for it to become less of a statistical impossibility.
Wes' game lasted 3 hrs 16 min 32 sec and currently can be viewed here.



