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Article: Donkey Kong enthusiast earns record-setting score.(The Seattle Times)
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- July 31, 2003
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Byline: Lisa Heyamoto
SEATTLE _ 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, Wash., resident Steve Wiebe set a world record at Donkey Kong recently, 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 ...
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