When did you first see KOK?

[ChrisP]

Ha, that's funny, it was actually Chris Mansfield with 550K. 

(Thank you for that original cut, BTW, very excited to watch this.)

I just happen to have saved a PDF of the rankings from 2011 (attached), check it out. Pretty crazy...

[Shnypz]

I think I first saw it in 09. Not 100% sure. Although DK was one of my all-time favorites (that I always sucked at), I was still interested in "current" games at the time so I wasn't inspired to start grinding MAME after watching the doc.

Getting that MAME cab setup at work and preceding to dominate a number of work tourneys really re-lit the CAG fire for me. Also, the "current" modern gaming scene sucks ass IMO 

[lakeman421]

That's when my buddy made the bar bet about me getting into the top twenty on TG.

Out of curiousity, what was the 20th TG score at the time?

I think at the time it was Brian Kuh around 600k so pretty low but it seemed a lot higher back then especially jut starting out

[mikegmi2]

It was either '08 or '09, my sister had me watch it on Nexflix.  I didn't get around to attempting to play the game until 2012 as I started and was running a charity poker room at the time (closed it Dec 2011), in addition to my engineering job, which basically took up nearly all my free time.

[jwade614]

Good thread.

Anybody else besides Mitch and I have a long delay between seeing the movie and becoming interested in playing the game?

About 6 years for me. KoK was on my radar before it was released and I rented it as soon as it was available on Xbox. I didn't start playing DK until earlier this year.

[stella_blue]

I just went through my old email archives.  I placed the following order with Amazon on April 17, 2010:

Item Description		Price
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (DVD)		$17.49
Grateful Dead - Crimson, White & Indigo: July 7, 1989 at JFK Stadium, Philadelphia		$29.99

The items were shipped on April 20th, so I probably watched the movie before May 1st.

Anybody else besides Mitch and I have a long delay between seeing the movie and becoming interested in playing the game?

Quite the opposite.  I played DK on various arcade machines from 1983 to 1985, then watched the film 25 years later.

[Svavar]

Saw it at a film festival in Iceland in April 2008. Loved it to death but didn't that deep in the hobby of arcade games until I moved to Denmark mid 2012.

[dimmu--borgir]

Am I the only one asking myself, when did    watch KOK the first time?

[NightRider]

I saw the original cut that was floating around on the internet some time near the end of August 2007. I also went to see it in the theater in September of 2007. I've always been interested in DK since Nintendo is my favorite game company, but I was never interested enough to get DK working in MAME or buy my machine until after seeing the movie. I played pretty seriously for a while after that, but I lost interest and eventually stepped away from competitive gaming in general.

I actually hadn't been online at gaming sites for quite some time after that, but then I found DKF after Walter asked me if I was going to the Kong Off 3 about a year ago. I still don't play DK at all really, but it is interesting to see how far the community has come over the last few years.

[D.B. Cooper]

According to Netflix, I returned the movie on 2/11/08 so I probably watched it a day or two earlier.  In the old days of Netflix, you could look at your friend's que and I had a friend at work who was a huge movie buff.  I used to look at his que and find cool stuff I had never heard of and that's where I found King of Kong.  It had been a long time since I'd played an actual CAG in an arcade and I was fascinated by the idea that not only was there someone keeping track of high scores currently but that they were also keeping track of this stuff BITD.  Add in that as a kid I was always fascinated with the idea of World Records and had a couple of the Guiness books and loved the tv show, I was hooked and immediately joined TG.

[DiggingInNY]

I first saw the King of Kong back in 2009. I was browsing through some videos on Netflix and it showed up. I've always been a video game fan, though not the best player by any means. After seeing that documentary, it inspired to try to get serious on some games. Since the documentary covered Donkey Kong, I figured I would try to master a different game. Dig Dug was it and I was getting 100,000+ point scores at that time and I was on and off with that game, but a few years later I topped out at 4.8 million. Of course I also tried other games as well.

[michaelsroka]

I just imagine if I have never watched it, how different my life would have been.   In my mind steve sanders would be the world record holder still at 3.2 million.

[ChrisP]

One day ban for excessive Sanders! 

[thekid25]

09 they had mentioned it on the howard stern show.  He was mocking it of course so I rented from netflix.  Loved the game when I was a kid so much that I bought the dvd version for myself and bought an arcade cabinet.  It was because of that movie that I was able to get passed third elevators.  Did a search on youtube and watched the videos of hank and was blown away.