Main > Main Forum
Billy Mitchell, Steve Wiebe, Hank Chien at the kong off watch video
BadMouth:
Look what popped up on Digg:
http://www.1up.com/features/king-of-kong-stars-finally-head-to-head
Congrats on the excellent promotion and execution.
Gray_Area:
--- Quote from: LeedsFan on March 21, 2011, 03:27:45 am ---Billy came in 7th I think but he was very busy with other stuff around the event.
--- End quote ---
I'm betting he was the real winner - making mo-ney.
Too bad Saglio didn't take it. And nobody cracked a million. Dear Jesus.
--- Quote ---But I did hear them over the live feed say that there will be a PacOff as the next event.
--- End quote ---
In relating the whole DK phenomenon to someone outside the hobby last night ,I was wondering why Pac-Man, it being the top arcade game of all time, hasn't had such a 're-lifing'? I'm interested to see what happens.
jimmy2x2x:
Billy came in 7th, later that day he sent in a video tape of himself winning.
LeedsFan:
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on March 23, 2011, 09:38:04 pm ---In relating the whole DK phenomenon to someone outside the hobby last night ,I was wondering why Pac-Man, it being the top arcade game of all time, hasn't had such a 're-lifing'? I'm interested to see what happens.
--- End quote ---
The only "problem" with Pacman is that there is no mystique surrounding hi-scores any more. About eight different people have now recorded perfect Panman scores since Billy Mitchell became the first to do it. You just follow the same set patterns each time. Of course it's easier said than done... I even watched the UK champion attempting this at Blackpool last year and it's hard as hell to keep the concentration going that long and getting each turn on each corner just right.
But at the end of the day what's in it for the viewing public? At least Donkey Kong still has it's record being broken. People still wonder jusy how much point pressing can be done. You could play the game very aggressively and 1.1 million is easily attained in theory. But keeping that pace up to the kill screen is just insane. When Hank Chien beat Steve Wiebe at the Kong Off he stopped pressing for points from L=21 as he knew he just had to beat Steve's score to go in the lead. He could have broken 1 million had he pressed harder ( I watched this on live feed). He was on his last man from ~550K so did amazing to win on that game as it was.
As far as gaming interest and tactics/strategies are concerned DK > Pacman any time.
rbarr110:
Hey where was Brian Kuh.... I thought he said he was going to be a DK champ one day. :laugh2:
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version