5. Meet The Players: Steve
And in the blue corner, Steve Wiebe couldn't be more different from his rival if he tried.
A former employee with Boeing Aviation, he was downsized and switched to working at working as as maths teacher in Washington State.
Long before his working days, he'd been a fan of video games including Pac Man and was 12 when Donkey Kong arrived. “Donkey Kong came out and it was like four games in one,” he says. “The graphics were state of the art, the music was captivating. The story about the monkey captured you.”
With extra time on his hands, the adult Wiebe began playing Donkey Kong on a home machine, pouring his frustrations with life and worries for his family's finances into defeating the pixellated villain.
Soon, he was racking up high scores and, after years of effort, finally cracked the high score on the game, besting Billy Mitchell's long-standing record with just over one million points.
But the road to recognition would not be easy. He had to fight to claim his score as valid and was forced to prove himself time again - which is how the story of Kong arrived on film...
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MrScary
Sep 8th 2009, 16:53
Funspot!!!!! I used to go there too!!! That place was awesome!!! Ware's Beach, NH. Haven't been there in 25 years, will have to check it out again the next time I'm up there. Wow, that brings back memories of blowing hundreds of $$$ on Donkey Kong Jr. and Centipede.
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