Twin Galaxies announced a new Donkey Kong Junior world record last Friday. Beating the previous record by some 100,000 points, Steve Wiebe powered to victory with a final score of 1,139,800 points on March 14th. The record was verified by Twin Galaxies' David Nelson, and officially recognized as of April 24th. The previous holder, Ike Hall, had held the record since August 2008, where he beat the infamous Billy Mitchell's 1985 record.
"I'm not surprised he was able to beat it," Ike Hall told Twin Galaxies Editor-In-Chief Scott Patterson via telephone on the day of this announcement. "I'm definitely going to try and reclaim it, but it won't be an easy hill to climb."

Hall also stated that family life may make finding time to play in the near future difficult, but in the meantime he wishes to extend his congratulations to Steve.

"I'll be calling Steve to congratulate him," Hall said.
Wiebe is now shifting his attention to the original Donkey Kong and will make a bid for that high score world record on June 2nd in Los Angeles at the E3 2009 show.

You sir, are not shit at games.



Bryn says: Doesn't it boggle your mind that people are still competitively playing these ancient arcade games? I like a bit of DK as much as the next person, but this Wiebe bloke is quite literally insane.

Hope he can nail the original DK world record during E3 too. I'll have to watch that on the web though, as I'm skipping out on the madness of the show this year.