I thought about this much lately, about starting an own blog here on the forums.
My name is Patrick Goldbach, i'm 22 years old from germany.
I started playing videogames by the age of 3, when i played on my fathers Commodore Amiga 500.
I had my first contact with Donkey Kong by the age of 5 when i got my Super Nintendo and was playing Donkey Kong Country, the first time i played the actual arcade DK was when i was, i think 13 or so.
My competitive DK "career" really started in 2009 when i rediscovered MAME, after watching the King Of Kong.
Till the beginning of 2013 i wasn't taking it to serious in terms of getting a good score going, my highscore on DK back in the day was about 50k points, till a friend of mine challenged me in a few arcade games.
Right now i'm pursuing a few temporary gaming goals:
Game.........................................Goal.............................Status
Donkey Kong (US Set1).............500k..........................186300-L=6 (at the Donkey Kong Open #1)
Donkey Kong (JP Arcade)..........500k..........................124300-L=5
Crazy Kong Pt2.........................500k-KS.....................202300-L=8
Non-Kong goals
Hang-On Jr..........................2.3mil (Marp WR).............1.380xxx'ish
Tapper (Budweiser)...................100k.............................40330
Galaga (rapidfire).......................500k............................100k'ish
1942...........................................500k............................108030
Space Zap...........................250k (Marp WR)..................119750
My current main goal is to get the CK killscreen by the end of this year.
I'm gonna update this list by the time something changes.