We've got Wieber fever today big time. Forget Justin Bieber, the Champion is back! Steve Wiebe has regained his crown as champion of Donkey Kong. Wiebe, who was inducted into the International Video Game Hall of Fame last month, racked up 1,064,500 points on Aug. 20, breaking the record of his nemesis, Billy Mitchell. Twin Galaxies, the official record-keeper for such endeavors, confirmed the achievement in a news release Monday.
According to new reports, the math teacher from Washington has broken his long time rival Billy Mitchell's record setting score of over a million points. Wiebe scored 1,064,500 points, breaking not only douchey Mitchell's record, but his own previous world record.
Wiebe's story first got attention in the awesome documentary "The King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters." He used to play Donkey Kong in college, and even bought a machine for his fraternity. At that time, he regularly ended up getting to the infamous "kill screen." Which is "the point in all Donkey Kong machines where due to a glitch in the program the system runs out of memory and the game just ends." He didn't know he was at this point a major WINNER, so he sold the game thinking it was broken. Dude, he had no idea he was not only breaking world records but he was setting them! Wiebe, you're awesome.
This is Billy Mitchell, Wiebe's nemesis. Billy Mitchell got Steve's original record breaking score disqualified because Steve had sent it in on a videotape, and Mitchell was a big old crybaby about it. The deal is that according to officials, in order to set an actual world record, the winner had to play Donkey Kong live in front of people. Wah wah I'm Billy Mitchell and I look like a douchebag with my long early 90's hair and ugly tie.
So Wiebe, who had gotten a Donkey Kong machine to play in his garage because he was laid off from his job, rose to the challenge. "I had been laid off," Wiebe told the press in 2008. "In college I got pretty good at 'Donkey Kong,' which I loved as a kid growing up. So I thought, 'This is one thing I can do to kind of cheer myself up.'" And it did cheer him up! He became a winner and went to play live in front of officials, and won the title of Donkey Kong champion. Hooray!
Sadly, dark forces were at work. Billy Mitchell, the whiny babyman, sent in a tape of himself beating Wiebe's high score, and stole the victory right back from Wiebe.
It wasn't fair that Wiebe didn't get his VHS tape qualified to win, and Mitchell got his, but that's life. Life seems to favor the bad guys sometimes… But not for long!
"I knew Billy would resurface and I've never let go of trying to recapture the record myself," Wiebe said. "There are a lot more DK kill screen players out there now, so the competition is getting pretty tough. I fully expect the title to keep changing hands until someone knocks it out of the park."
These guys have been fighting it out for years, and we're so happy that Wiebe is the King of Kong again!!
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