Steve Weibe will make a live attempt at the Donkey Kong World Record.
Don't know who Steve Weibe is? Rent/download/watch the documentary "King of Kong: a fistful of quarters" (I'm watching it right now!). Steve is a regular guy, a middle school science teacher, who happens to be one of the top Donkey Kong players in the world. His rival is Billy Mitchell, a cocky, hot sauce mogul who has battled Steve for the DK world record over the past few years. I won't spoil the movie for you, because it really is worth watching.
This week is Electronic Entertainment Expo (or E3), which is one of the largest video gaming conferences in the world. Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo and most of the third-party developers all make big announcments about upcoming new releases and unveil new games.
As part of the conference, Stride Gum has decided to offer Steve a chance to not only claim the record, but will reward him with $10,001 in quarters if he can beat the current top score of 1,050,200 (source).
I'm really rooting for him. He seems like a the kind of guy you'd like to be your friend.
Good luck Steve!
3 comments:
he got up to 989,000 and the power mysteriously went out. keep trying steve
you know that I'm not too into the video gaming world, but the movie is funny. tie guy is bad. steve is good. hopefully steve will soon be successful at bring down mr. usa!!
it was a good movie. too bad steve didn't get the record.
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