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Robbie Lakeman
Robbie Lakeman is a competitive video game player who holds the world record for the arcade games '' Donkey Kong'' (1981), ''Stratovox'' (1980), and '' Super Pac-Man'' (1982). He also formerly held the record score for the 1976 arcade game '' Death Race''. After regularly livestreaming attempts at the Donkey Kong record, Lakeman first took the record after beating Hank Chien's 2012 world record of 1,138,600 points with a score of 1,141,800 on September 4, 2014. Lakeman subsequently exchanged the world record several times with Wes Copeland. He has broken the record a total of eight times, including the world record score of 1,272,800 on an original Nintendo Donkey Kong arcade cabinet on June 8, 2021. Controversy Robbie Lakeman has made a number of controversial statements and accusations in recent years. Lakeman has claimed numerous times that fellow competitive video game player Billy Mitchell has extorted him. In addition, Lakeman has publicly accused Mitchell of using his s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donkey Kong (arcade Game)
is a 1981 arcade video game developed and published by Nintendo. As Mario, the player runs and jumps on platforms and climbs ladders to ascend a construction site and rescue Pauline from the giant gorilla Donkey Kong. It is the first game in the ''Donkey Kong'' series as well as Mario's first appearance in a video game. ''Donkey Kong'' is the product of Nintendo's efforts to develop a hit to rival ''Pac-Man'' (1980) and break into the North American market. Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's president at the time, assigned the project to first-time video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Drawing from a wide range of inspirations including ''Popeye'', ''Beauty and the Beast'', and King Kong, Miyamoto developed the scenario and designed the game alongside chief engineer Gunpei Yokoi. They broke new ground by using graphics as a means of characterization, including cutscenes to advance the game's plot and integrating multiple stages into the gameplay. Although Nintendo's American staf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Jobst
Karl Jobst (born 7 February 1986) is an Australian ''GoldenEye 007'' and ''Perfect Dark'' speedrunner, YouTuber, and investigative journalist whose work has focused on exposing cheating and fraud in the gaming community. He also covers other speedrunning and challenge-related feats, such as world record histories. As of July 2022, he has more than 700,000 subscribers on YouTube. Early life Jobst began playing video games at age two and a half; his first gaming experience was with the PC game '' Ultima V'', and his first console was a Nintendo 64 he received in 1997. He briefly studied IT and psychology at university, and spent time working at a chicken factory, a mobile phone shop, and a call center. Speedrunning career Jobst began speedrunning in 1999 when competing for fast times in '' Goldeneye 007'' with a friend before moving on to ''Perfect Dark''. He eventually set the speedrunning world record for the first level of ''Goldeneye 007'' on 2 December 2017, completing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Esports Players
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Donkey Kong Players
The domestic donkey is a hoofed mammal in the family Equidae, the same family as the horse. It derives from the African wild ass, ''Equus africanus'', and may be classified either as a subspecies thereof, ''Equus africanus asinus'', or as a separate species, ''Equus asinus''. It was domesticated in Africa some years ago, and has been used mainly as a working animal since that time. There are more than 40 million donkeys in the world, mostly in underdeveloped countries, where they are used principally as draught or pack animals. While working donkeys are often associated with those living at or below subsistence, small numbers of donkeys or asses are kept for breeding or as pets in developed countries. A male donkey is known as a ''jack'' or ''jackass'', a female is a ''jenny'' or ''jennet'', and an immature donkey of either sex is a ''foal''. Jacks are often mated with female horses (mares) to produce '' mules''; the less common hybrid of a male horse (stallion) and je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guinness World Records
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. The brainchild of Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter in Fleet Street, London, in August 1955. The first edition topped the best-seller list in the United Kingdom by Christmas 1955. The following year the book was launched internationally, and as of the 2022 edition, it is now in its 67th year of publication, published in 100 countries and 23 languages, and maintains over 53,000 records in its database. The international franchise has extended beyond print to include television series and museums. The popularity of the franchise has resulted in ''Guinness World Records'' becoming the primary international authority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twin Galaxies
Twin Galaxies is an organization and social media platform for people involved in the culture and activity of playing video games. It facilitates their interaction as well as their competition and recognizes their achievements. Twin Galaxies is the official supplier of video game records to Guinness World Records. History In mid-1981, Walter Day, founder of Twin Galaxies, Inc., visited more than 100 video game arcades over four months, recording the high scores that he found on each game. On November 10, 1981 he opened his arcade in Ottumwa, Iowa, naming it Twin Galaxies. On February 9, 1982, his database of records was released publicly as the Twin Galaxies National Scoreboard. Twin Galaxies became known as the official scoreboard, arranging contests between top players. Twin Galaxies' first event attracted international media attention for gathering the first teams of video game stars. Top players in North Carolina and California were formed into state teams that fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jace Hall
Jason "Jace" Hall is an American film, television and video game producer. Career Hall was one of the founders of Monolith Productions and is CEO of record keeping platform Twin Galaxies. His music video "I Play W.O.W" was featured on IGN's YouTube Channel, with over 17 million views. He starred, produced, and wrote '' The Jace Hall Show'' and currently serves as the executive producer of web series ''The Morning After'', having previously done so on ABC's TV series ''V''. In 2012, Hall teamed up with Debbie Gibson to record " Electric Youth Reloaded", an updated remix of Gibson's 1989 hit single. In March 2014, Hall purchased Twin Galaxies Twin Galaxies is an organization and social media platform for people involved in the culture and activity of playing video games. It facilitates their interaction as well as their competition and recognizes their achievements. Twin Galaxie ..., an organization dedicated to adjudicating and archiving video game high scores and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Mitchell (gamer)
William James Mitchell Jr. (born July 16, 1965) is an American video game player and restaurateur. He rose to national prominence in the 1980s when ''Life'' included him in a photo spread of game champions during the height of the golden age of arcade video games. In 1999, Mitchell was the first person to claim a perfect score of 3,333,360 points on the arcade game ''Pac-Man''. Twin Galaxies and ''Guinness World Records'' recognized Mitchell as the holder of several records on classic games including ''Pac-Man'' and ''Donkey Kong'', and he has appeared in several documentaries on competitive gaming and retrogaming. A 2007 documentary, '' The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters'', follows his attempts to maintain the highest score on ''Donkey Kong'' after being challenged by newcomer Steve Wiebe. In 2018, Mitchell's high scores were contested after members of the Twin Galaxies forums found discrepancies in the videos Mitchell had provided for ''The King of Kong'', suggesting he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Pac-Man
is a 1982 maze chase arcade game developed and published by Namco. It was distributed in North America by Midway Games. ''Super Pac-Man'' is Namco's take on a sequel to the original ''Pac-Man''; Midway had previously released ''Ms. Pac-Man'', which Namco had little involvement with. Toru Iwatani returns as designer. Gameplay Sound and gameplay mechanics were altered radically from the first two entries into the ''Pac-Man'' series—instead of eating dots, the player is required to eat keys in order to open doors, which open up sections of the maze that contain what in earlier games were known as "fruits" (foods such as apples and bananas, or other prizes such as ''Galaxian'' flagships), which are now the basic items that must be cleared. Once all the food is eaten, the player advances to the next level, in which the food is worth more points. In earlier levels, keys unlock nearby doors, while as the player progresses through the levels, it is more common for keys to open faraw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polygon (website)
''Polygon'' is an American entertainment website that publishes blogs, reviews, guides, videos, and news primarily covering video games, as well as movies, comics, television and books. At its October 2012 launch as Vox Media's third property, ''Polygon'' sought to distinguish itself from competitors by focusing on the stories of the people behind the games instead of the games themselves. It also produced long-form magazine-style feature articles, invested in video content, and chose to let their review scores be updated as the game changed. The site was built over the course of ten months, and its 16-person founding staff included the editors-in-chief of the gaming sites ''Joystiq'', '' Kotaku'' and '' The Escapist''. Its design was built to HTML5 responsive standards with a pink color scheme, and its advertisements focused on direct sponsorship of specific kinds of content. Vox Media produced a documentary series on the founding of the site. History The gaming blog ''Poly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hank Chien
Hank Chien is a former world record holder and two-time "Kong-Off" Champion of the video game ''Donkey Kong''. As of January 2016, his personal best sits at 1,138,600. Chien won the first Kong Off, a ''Donkey Kong'' competition which occurred on March 19–20, 2011. The competition featured Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell and eight other competitors. Chien won with a score of 994,400. Hank Chien was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S. with his family at the age of two. He works as a plastic surgeon in Queens Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York. Located on Long Island, it is the largest New York City borough by area. It is bordered by the borough of Brooklyn at the western tip of Long .... The documentary ''Doctor Kong: Cutting Up the Competition'', follows his first attempt to break the world record. References 1974 births Living people American people of Chinese descent American people of Taiwanese de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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