Steve Wiebe Breaks 'Donkey Kong Jr.' World Record

Old-school video game legend Steve Wiebe officially broke the world record for Donkey Kong Jr. last week in preparation for the big show: His attempt to shatter the record for Donkey Kong during E3 in June. Wiebe scored 1,139,800 on the DK Jr. machine, and his record-bursting game was verified by video game officiating site Twin Galaxies, so you know it's legit.

On June 2, Wiebe, subject and star of documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, will attempt to make history right here on G4, when he squares off against a Donkey Kong machine at the Electronic Entertainment Expo. We'll be bringing you live feed on the web, as well as featuring Wiebe on our television coverage, so either way, you're covered and you won't miss history being made! 

Former DK Jr. record holder Ike Hall was gracious in his defeat: "I'm not surprised he was able to beat it," Hall told Twin Galaxies. "I'm definitely going to try and reclaim it, but it won't be an easy hill to climb."

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4/27/2009	Steve Wiebe Takes Donkey Kong Junior World Record With Score of 1,139,800 Live Nationally Televised Shot At Original Donkey Kong Airing From E3 on June 2
With Twin Galaxies and the G4 Network preparing for Steve Wiebe's arrival at E3 in Los Angeles, CA in early June, Steve has been doing some preparing of his own.   While Steve hopes he can regain the Donkey Kong World Record on live national television on June 2, he is able to lay claim to recent success on another classic Donkey Kong title.   On April 24, Twin Galaxies announced that Steve Wiebe has officially taken the Donkey Kong Junior World Record.   The new World Record mark was accomplished on March 14 and verified by Twin Galaxies Chief Referee David Nelson.  Steve's new World Record mark of 1,139,800 points takes the Donkey Kong Junior crown from fellow Washington state native Ike Hall, who was crowned the DKJ World Champ in August 2008 with a score of 1,033,000, taking the crown that Billy Mitchell had held on the game since 1985.   "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 definately 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.   This new mark on Donkey Kong Junior also gained the attention of another who appears in the King of Kong film.   "This is a profound performance," notes Walter Day, Founder of Twin Galaxies. "On March 19, 1983, Billy Mitchell set a then-World Record of 957,300 points at the Twin Galaxies International Scoreboard in Ottumwa, Iowa.  That record stood for 25 years until Ike Hall of Port Angeles, WA scored 1,033,000 points on August 10, 2008, lifting the record 86,000 points.  Even though the World Record was able to creep up by only 86,000 points in those 25 years, Steve has managed the unimaginable and has lifted it another 106,000 points by scoring 1,139,500 points."   Steve's attempt on the original Donkey Kong is airing on the G4 Network at the annual E3 event in Los Angeles on June 2, with several Twin Galaxies officials there to witness and verify the attempt.   Twin Galaxies hopes to have a word with Steve and possibly with current and former World Record holders on both Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior as this televised attempt approaches.

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Good for Steve! The other guy is a douche and as far as I'm concerned he already beat the high score years ago.

That movie pissed me off so much. I watched it on Netflix. Billy Mitchell is a douche.

I love how at the end they obviously showed the head judge the movie and it obviously showed how biased Twin Galaxies was and he added the little bit in at the end.  At least the head judge seemed to realize what was going on by the end but Mitchell is just a douche and a hypocrite, no other way around it.

Yeah I thought the other guy was a complete asshole as well.

Great job Steve, you are one of the coolest humans evar!

hahah yeah, everyone treats Billy Mitchell like he is a God. It always looked like Billy Mitchell was trying to pull some kind of Jedi mind trick on everyone.

I agree with the consensus in this thread!

hey billy isnt as bad as they portrayed him in the movie. even steve said billy is a cool guy.

Awesome news, world records being broke.

Whats so bad about this "Billy Mitchell"?