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Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« on: January 22, 2014, 12:56:44 am »
Corey Chambers High Score Timeline

1/06/14 Started Playing Junior
1/08/14 142,000 Day 3
1/12/14 151,300 Day 7
1/12/14 288,400 Day 7
1/15/14 331,700 Day 10
1/15/14 370,800 Day 10
1/17/14 498,600 Day 12
1/18/14 568,900 Day 13
1/22/14 761,600 Lv. E.4 Day 17
1/24/14 1,010,400 Killscreen! Day 19
2/17/14 1,016,200 Lv. B.4
3/14/14 1,097,500 Killscreen!
3/18/14 1,275,200 Killscreen! Arcade High Score
8/6/14   1,323,200 Killscreen! Mame World Record!
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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2014, 07:51:24 am »
I was on 150k for about 2 years because I'm stubborn and refused to watch how to pass the springboard level.  Once I figured it out my next game was 500k or so.  I used to think it was like the 3rd elevators in DK but that's not fair to DK because the rest of DK Jr is so much easier to run than DK is.
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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2014, 09:10:17 am »
Congrats on the rapid progression of DK Jr Corey.  That was super fast! 8)
« Last Edit: January 22, 2014, 09:13:48 am by homerwannabee »
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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2014, 09:56:24 am »
I was on 150k for about 2 years because I'm stubborn and refused to watch how to pass the springboard level.  Once I figured it out my next game was 500k or so.  I used to think it was like the 3rd elevators in DK but that's not fair to DK because the rest of DK Jr is so much easier to run than DK is.

Well to be fair Donkey Kong has 116 boards, and DK Jr only has 80 boards.   I do have to admit that it would be almost impossible to get to the 80th board on a person's 17th day though.  So yeah, Donkey Kong overall is harder than Donkey Kong Junior from what I have seen.

Also though it should be noted a decent number of players who have had success originally with Donkey Kong Junior went on to have some success with Donkey Kong.  That includes Ike Hall, Mark Kiehl, Myself, Brian Allen, Mike Kasper, Clayton Brookins, and Graham Wolfe was showing a lot of promise as well.

So Donkey Kong maybe harder, but it can't be that much harder if everyone who started off with DK Jr. went on, and did fairly well with Donkey Kong.
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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2014, 09:58:54 am »
That is fast progress for sure.

Excellent job!

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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2014, 02:11:43 pm »
Thanks guys. Please feel free to post your own timelines in this thread. Although getting to the killscreen would have been nice last night, I did essentially achieve my goal of getting through the game to the end. Therefore, I decided that I will just go for one million point attempts now. There really isn't any point going for just a killscreen. Just getting to level E.4 was sufficient for my purposes. I should be able to get a million by just jumping out the hideout, and getting a couple more easy smashes, like at the top of the vine board. I mostly just ran boards for this latest score, until I beat my pb and then I pressed to drive it up.

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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2014, 06:14:58 pm »
Funny that you followed in the footsteps of Steve Wagner and myself with the E-4 failscreen! It's becoming a pattern with Junior, I guess.

It does make a certain amount of sense though. I would say that the average key screen is probably harder/more dangerous than the average rivet screen.
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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2014, 07:31:44 pm »
Cool Beans Corey. I need to get serious about DKJR but i just cant quit you DK.

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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2014, 05:33:23 pm »
Here is my early Junior timeline as compiled from e-mails that I saved. I was keeping a friend updated after he challenged me to get back to my bitd score of 279k, after scoring 80k on an arcade machine. The majority of these increases of personal bests were done on mame, the last two were done on arcade.

5/10/09 80k (arcade)
5/12/09 130k
5/13/09 133k
5/17/09 148k

5/20/09 172k

5/26/09 324k

5/27/09 414k

6/01/09 516k

6/03/09 537k

6/16/09 834k

6/29/09 845k (killscreen)

7/06/09 1080k (killscreen)

7/29/09 1155k (killscreen)

8/03/09 (date estimated) 1134k (Level E-4, 5k shy of the record at the time)
9/03/09 1147k (Level E-4)
« Last Edit: January 28, 2014, 10:29:24 am by marky_d »
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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2014, 08:58:35 pm »
Very nice timeline and with evidence :D

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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #10 on: January 28, 2014, 03:58:25 am »
Nice. Pretty cool to see that

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Re: Donkey Kong Junior Player High Score Timelines
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2014, 11:12:38 pm »
I would ask for the 1.2 M Jr badge, but again how would that be differentiated with the M used for DK? I like the idea since I am kinda short on badges. :D