Back in September, during Donkey Kong Online Open 2015, 25-year-old Wes Copeland scored a world record 1,170,500 points, only to be dethroned six hours later by Robbie Lakeman during the same event. Since then, Lakeman, who originally dethroned four-year record holder and plastic surgeon Hank “Dr. Kong” Chien, has held on to the record. On January 3rd, however, Copeland came back to score 1,190,000. Lakeman made a single attempt to take back the Kong crown before announcing an indefinite hiatus from the scene.

While there’s something romantic about following the drama behind competitive players fighting over a title on a nearly 35-year-old video game, many close followers of the competitive Donkey Kong community are expecting an end to the record-breaking in coming years. Top players agree that the maximum score attainable in the game is somewhere just above 1.2 million. The current world record scored through emulation stands at 1,206,800.

You can watch Copeland’s 1,190,000 run above.

Source: Donkey Kong Blog

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