Oldschool DK Arcade World Record

[dDave]

I remember back when I used to think that I was pretty good at Donkey Kong. I've actually been to level 6 before. This game was sort of hidden inside Donkey Kong 64, look at this one though.

MAME World Record: Donkey Kong [US Set 1] 1,153,000 - YouTube

This guy gets over 1,000,000 points. :shocked: The way he plays the game looks completely foreign to me and it took him a solid 3 hours on one run of this game. He got to level 22 before the game hit a killscreen. That's sheerly impressive.

Anybody that's ever played this game before should appreciate this one.

 

[AnitaKnapp]

Huh. It looks like they slightly modified the one for N64, because the level he plays on level 2 is level 4 in N64.

 

[Major]

I'm not going to watch the entire 3 hour video. It was hard enough to watch a few minutes of it. It's just not that exciting of a game. :lol: I've never played the real version of this game (only what we have here in the GF Arcade), but I don't doubt that the video is really impressive.

 

[Doc]

I watched it here and there and I haven't seen anyone ever play DK like that, either. It seems like he has nearly every barrel move memorized and knows exactly how to maximize points for ever level. I can't imagine how many hours he has put into this game.

 

[Major]

It seems like he has nearly every barrel move memorized and knows exactly how to maximize points for ever level.

That's the thing about a lot of the older arcade games. There are no random elements in them and it's all about memorization. I know that in the original Pacman the ghosts' movement was completely predictable, so people figured out and memorized routes that would get them perfect scores. There have been a couple people who memorized all however many hundred levels in the game.