GameSpy's Top 50 Arcade Games of All-Time

Oh, sweet, sweet arcades. Back before modern consoles and the Internet rendered the arcade both technologically and socially obsolete, we spent untold hours feeding quarter upon quarter into these addictive machines. We've turned said memories into an all-time top 50 list. That's right: These are GameSpy's picks for the top 50 arcade games of all-time, carefully selected and ranked by a dozen-strong panel of GameSpy editors and writers, representing all manner of arcade aficionados.

These are the big five:

1. Ms. Pac-Man
2. Donkey Kong
3. Pac-Man
4. Street Fighter II: The World Warrior
5. Star Wars

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Hank Chien has shown himself to be the true King of Kong simply by not waiting for his two biggest threats, Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe, to set high scores on Donkey Kong anymore — he’s going for his own scores and #winning.

Hank recorded his run at the iconic Funspot arcade on February 27, 2011 setting the new score 1,090,400 which is 22,400 points higher than his previous score. Even though he’s breaking his own scores now Hank is not about to think his score is unbeatable. In an interview Hank said:

The number of great Donkey Kong players who have surfaced since the King of Kong was released is growing rapidly. It seems like almost every week I hear of another player who has reached the killscreen. The score I have now is beatable by several of those players. It may be beaten before or even at the Kong Off. I’d be surprised if it’s not surpassed within a year.

Hank’s record will be put to the test when 10 DK players meet up to play on 10 DK machines at ‘The Kong Off‘ at ‘Richie Knucklez Arcade Games‘ on March 19 and 20 to hopefully break the  ‘Guiness Book Of World Records’ record for best score in a live event, video tape, or DVD.

Coming in just at the end of 2010 and newly verified, Hank Chien has reclaimed the World Record for Donkey Kong. If you can say anything about Hank Chien, it’s that he evidently doesn’t take defeat very well. Sure, he knew not so deep down that his Donkey Kong World Record score wouldn’t last forever, but he couldn’t have foreseen that it would have been toppled so quickly.

Nintendo and retailer GAME have announced that lucky punters can pick up a free copy of Donkey Kong Country Returns for Wii at launch in exchange for a bunch of bananas. 

Donkey Kong Country Returns arrives on shelves in the UK this Friday, December 3, and GAME has revealed that the first 20 people to hit select branches with the aforementioned fruit fist will walk away with a copy of the game, absolutely free. 



Three stores are participating in the promotion:

GAME on Oxford Street, London,
GAME Merry Hill, Dudley, plus
GameStation at Prospect Centre, Hull.

Oxford Street and Merry Hill branches open their doors at 9am this Friday while GameStation kicks things off a mite earlier at 8am.

Steve Wiebe Back On Top, Reclaims Donkey Kong World Record!

Billy Mitchell, Hank Chien, Steve Wiebe: these men are the giants of Donkey Kong, throwing the world record around like a numerical barrel. Chien bested Mitchell, then Mitchell topped Chien, and now long-time underdog Steve Wiebe has reclaimed the top spot by a whisker. Mitchell's previous best stood at 1,062,800, with Wiebe's new world record reaching 1,064,500. How much higher can these three point-based pugilists go, or will a fourth competitor enter the fray to spice things up further?

Sep 20, 2010 – Official video game scorekeeping organization Twin Galaxies has announced that the World Record on the classic arcade game Donkey Kong has changed hands for the third time this year as former champion Steve Wiebe climbs back into the top spot with a score of 1,064,500 points.  As reported from Gather, Wiebe was playing in a 2 hour marathon session and managed to acculumate 1,064,500 points, almost 2,000 points higher than the previous world record.

To get you up to speed after the events of the movie:

- Wiebe finally officially got the world record in the spring of 2007...
- Only to have Billy Mitchell take it back a few months later.
- Some random player Hank Chien beat both their scores in March 2010
- Mitchell, not to be outdone, took it back on July 31, 2010

Interview with Steve Wiebe, 08 Mar 2010 by Jon Wahlgren

There's a new Donkey Kong world record holder, and it's not Steve Wiebe or Billy Mitchell--it's Hank Chien, a 35-year-old plastic surgeon from New York. Read on to find out more about the new king of Kong.

Steve Wiebe's quest to take back the Donkey Kong world record at GDC just got a little tougher. A new record of 1,061,700 points has been set, and--surprise--it's not from Billy Mitchell. The new record holder is Hank Chien, a 35-year-old plastic surgeon from New York. Billy Mitchell was the previous record holder, with 1,050,200 points.

While Chien's name may lack the marquee value of the documentary duo, he's no stranger to gaming world records, having previously captured the top scores for every level in the PS3 version of Lemmings and the Japanese arcade version of Donkey Kong (which is listed separately than the differently structured U.S. version by Twin Galaxies). Chien's next goals include attempting to put even more distance between his score and those of Wiebe and Mitchell, recapturing the many Lemmings records he's lost in the chase for the Donkey Kong score, and a secret third title. Don't expect it to be a hit arcade game, though, as Chien told Twin Galaxies "It's nothing big, in fact it's quite the opposite; a very small title that I stumbled upon accidentally and have been playing while on Donkey Kong breaks."

SOURCE: Chatting up the new Donkey Kong Champ [Twin Galaxies]