A new record in the game Donkey Kong may not be able to beat

World record, photographed on the screen of the gaming machine. The 7th rank in the glasses is not provided, so a million on the board is not visible

At the Donkey Kong World Championships organized by the DonkeyKongForum.com forum, professional player Wes Copeland set a record of 1,218,000 points . This is the highest score ever on any gaming platform that supports the game. Copeland's party was almost perfect, and, apparently, this record is unlikely to be broken.

Despite the fact that the Nintendo Donkey Kong arcade first appeared in 1981 (35 years ago), many players still play it, hold competitions and set records. The DonkeyKongForum.com forum organizes periodic championships that reveal the modern champions of this old game.

One of the legendary figures of Donkey Kong is an American, math teacher Steve Wiibe [Steve Wiebe], who twice became the world champion in the game, and was the first person to score more than a million points. He is one of the key figures about whom the documentary " The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters " ("King Kong: A Fistful of Quarters .") Was filmed in 2007. The last time he lost the title of champion in 2011.

However, in the past few years, the fight for the championship has been unfolding between the two main rivals, Weight Copeland and Robbie Lakeman. For the first time, Copeland set a record of 1170,500 points in September 2015 at one of the game competitions held on slot machines, but the record dramatically lasted only six hours - Leykman beat him in the same tournament by only 1600 points. Copeland did not calm down, and on January 3, 2016 he raised the bar again, gaining 1190000 points .
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Game theorists from the blog FiveThirtyEight, analyzing the game last year , set the bar for the highest possible record to a height of just over 1,200,000 points. And indeed, the record reached by one of the players on the game emulator, 1206800 points, has been held since 2013. But Copeland managed to beat him too.

The uniqueness of his last playthrough is that Copeland has not lost a single Mario for the entire game, having completed one attempt from the first to the last level, and exchanging his remaining lives at the final level. The passage was almost perfect, and Copeland scored close to the theoretical maximum of 1.2 million points.

As he himself admitted in his blog on Facebook , it was the bar that he set for himself, and, having reached it, he believes that he will hardly ever be able to collect more. Leykman, describing the achievement, said that although he considers himself a good enough player, he does not consider himself so lucky to beat a new record. Perhaps he will never be beaten.

Those interested can enjoy a very meditative video that captures the installation of a world record, which lasted just under 3 hours and 20 minutes.