947,200 points!
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Donkey Kong enthusiast earns record-setting score
By Lisa Heyamoto
Seattle Times Eastside bureau
Steve Wiebe has set a world record on the arcade video game Donkey Kong, which he has in his Redmond garage. Next, he aims to break his record by getting 1 million points on the Nintendo game.
In the video-game world, it's the equivalent of a coup.
Displaying a singular talent for leaping over barrels thrown by a cartoon ape, Redmond resident Steve Wiebe set a world record at Donkey Kong last week, netting nearly a million points at the classic video game and unseating both a record and a legendary player.
The score to beat had been set nearly 20 years ago by Billy Mitchell, a Florida man largely considered the Don of the Arcade Game. Though a New York man squeaked by last year with a slightly higher score than Mitchell, Wiebe dethroned the king and quietly weighed in with a hefty 947,200 points in a tape sent in to the definitive scorekeeping organization, Twin Galaxies.
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