As anyone who reads my website updates knows, I am a huge Donkey Kong fan. I’m also a fan of the recent movie “The King of Kong: a Fistful of Quarters”. The movie, presented as a documentary but not truly “accurate”, made a fun rivalry between Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe. The movie quickly became [...]

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Joust is one of the first arcade games in my collection, and still one of my favorites. I’ve been playing Joust since the day it hit the arcades back in 1982. Back in the 80′s arcade games could be found everywhere. I actually played it regularly in my hometown Radio Shack store. They had four [...]

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Over a year and a half ago, I set my high score in Donkey Kong at 298,200. I was SO close to 300K, but didn’t hit it. I haven’t been able to get close to that score at all since then. I took some time off from playing it because I was burning out. Well, [...]

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Just received a message recently from my friend Jodey Jansen about his new Donkey Kong high score. Jodey is another arcade game collector in my area, and the two of us have been pushing each other to get better at playing Donkey Kong. We’ve been back and forth, but Jodey has been clearly better than [...]

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Well, since I’ve had a few extra days off from work, I’ve had a little time to work on some scores. New Year’s Eve, before I left to go to a friends for the evening, I hit a new milestone in my Tron gameplay. I passed the 200,000 point mark. My new high score is [...]

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I was never very good at Tron. I could usually make it to the third level before it blew me away. Ever since I restored my current machine, I’ve made a more serious attempt at actually becoming good at this game. Well, I hit a milestone tonight with a score of 119,750. It was pretty [...]

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Since I pretty much burned myself out on Donkey Kong over the last few months, I spent some good quality time studying Tron. My scores are starting to become respectable. Tron is one of those games that definitely has patterns that will help get through certain levels. However, you still need to master some basic [...]

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ALMOST 300K! Tonight I just wrapped up a LONG game of Donkey Kong. Here’s how I did:

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Just passed 200K for the first time ever in Donkey Kong! Settled in for a nice 234,600. 300K, here I come!

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I’m really increasing my score now, as I am beginning to learn some of the skills and tips from other players. I hit 193,800 this weekend! BUT…just like Steve Wiebe has Billy Mitchell, I have jsquared (KLOV name) who has to keep one step ahead of me. He just sent me notification of his 208,400 [...]

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