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xelnia:
Estel recently setting a new Crazy Kong arcade world record has reminded me that the history of that particular record is full of holes. I'm hoping the community can help me patch them. Below you'll find the history of the arcade and MAME WRs as best as I can tell. The MAME list is pretty solid, I believe. There's no sense, at this point, in creating a "combined" record progression because I know of no significant arcade scores prior to 1999, and thus the MAME record has always been higher than the arcade record. Obviously that can't be true since there must have been arcades scores prior to the advent of emulation...but I haven't been able to track any down.

The late, legendary Ben Jos Walbeehm discussed his history with CK and DK over on CAGDC and while he doesn't give specific scores, he claims to have "maxed out" CK back in the 80s. His highest known MAME score is 638,700 so it seems reasonable that he may have had an arcade score in that range back in those days. That might mean that the Cahill/Knucklez/Linderman records were never records at all...maybe all the known records until Wes' 667k.

I also seem to remember (or misremember) that Robbie may have had the arcade record at some point in between Jimmy Linderman and Jeff Harrist.

So...help. Can anyone provide any more information? Do any of our European players any have insight, since CK was more prevalent over there? I'm not necessarily looking for submission-standard evidence. This is more for historical purposes than anything.

Crazy Kong Arcade World Record Progression
PlayerScoreDateJ.J. Cahill568,4002010-03-20Justin Knucklez579,7002010-08-07Jimmy Linderman608,5002010-09-25Jeff Harrist632,5002014-04-25Robbie Lakeman637,2002014-09-21Robbie Lakeman645,2002015-12-23Wes Copeland667,6002016-06-13Robbie Lakeman681,5002016-08-17Estel Goffinet701,8002024-07-07
Crazy Kong MAME World Record Progression
PlayerScoreDate"Crash"434,7001998-07-18Ben Jos Walbeehm613,0001999-09-03Jeff Wolfe624,0002000-07-11Ben Jos Walbeehm638,7002001-12-07Phil Tudose685,2002011-11-14Jeff Wolfe685,8002013-12-10Phil Tudose708,7002014-02-08Phil Tudose719,7002014-03-04Phil Tudose723,7002015-01-19Phil Tudose726,9002015-05-22Phil Tudose735,1002015-05-23Phil Tudose738,1002015-05-24Robbie Lakeman746,4002016-09-09Phil Tudose773,2002016-10-08Robbie Lakeman793,3002016-10-13Phil Tudose797,6002019-11-13Phil Tudose811,6002019-11-17Justin Elliott833,2002023-01-30John McCurdy852,1002023-02-17

Dk_madness:
Finally got a chance to read that thread. Very interesting stuff. I’m definitely curious on what Ben Jos considered a max score. There is not much info (if any at all) on CK arcade scores from pre 2000s.

jammvyy:
Ben Jos; I submitted my first 900 k recording and people started calling me a cheater,,, Billy TH Wolf pack of volunteer :( narrow minded. That is an interesting read :) https://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php/topic,1437.msg23404.html#msg23404   

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