![]() “At that point I was like, ‘OK, I guess I'm not going to be able to get a million,’” Wiebe says. To his knowledge, no one had achieved the record before. But he still could not figure out how to get past the level.Īt the time, Wiebe was attempting to reach a personal goal: to score a million points. So, he took the game home with him that summer. “I didn't know what was going on … does my machine have a bug?” “I just died within about seven or so seconds,” Wiebe says. ![]() ![]() But one day in 1991, the game stumped Wiebe when he hit level 22. The game leads players to dodge barrels and fireballs on the top of a tower in order to save Pauline, the damsel in distress, from the clutches of the great gorilla Donkey Kong. He bought one for himself, put the machine in his fraternity’s house and started beating his friend’s high-score records. He says it all started when he noticed that his fraternity brother had his own Donkey Kong machine. Wiebe first began to play the game while in college in the early ‘90s. Wiebe, Kong fanatics recognize him as a legend. Wiebe is a math teacher at Redmond High School in Washington. Steve Wiebe was the first Donkey Kong player to hit a million points. It also created a competitive scene, with gamers all vying for high scores and world records. The beloved arcade game Donkey Kong turns 40 years old this month.įirst released by Nintendo in July 1981 to Japanese audiences, it became a mainstream hit in the U.S., surging a golden age of arcades for a decade. Walker/Getty Images) This article is more than 1 year old. Steve Wiebe plays Donkey Kong after the screening of Picturehouse's "The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" at the Museum of the Moving Image on Augin New York City.
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