Got some emails asking who the record holder is for Donkey Kong world wide. We did soem research and found that the world record holder for Donkey Kong is Billy Mitchell who is a 43 year old man pictured below from Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Not only is Mitchell the world record holder in Donkey Kong but he also has amazing skills in other video games. Here are some of his accomplishments and stats:
* On January 14, 1984, he was selected as one of the 1983 “Video Game Players of the Year” by Twin Galaxies and the U.S. National Video Game Team.
* On September 17, 1999, he was proclaimed the “Video Game Player of the Century” while at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show. In a ceremony on the Namco stage, company founder Masaya Nakamura presented Mitchell with an award commemorating the first “perfect” game on Pac-Man.
* On November 24, 1999, he offered US$100,000 to the first person who could get through Pac-Man’s “split-screen level”.
* On June 21, 2006, MTV selected Mitchell one of “The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers Of All Time.”
* Mitchell placed eighth in the Microsoft Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championships on June 4, 2007.
In the December 2007 issue of Maxim, Mitchell was voted “Dweebus Maximus Dorkus of both the 20th and 21st centuries”.
Famous Scores of Billy Mitchell
Pac-Man: 3,333,360
Burgertime: 7,881,050
Donkey Kong Jr.: 957,300
Donkey Kong: 1,050,200
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