Donkey Kong Kill-Screener Timeline

[Barra]

Kibbey and Gettysburg I reckon

Inching closer towards that 100 . How

[ChrisP]

It makes me happy to mark the fifth anniversary of my first KS by adding not one but two names to this list.

Also makes me happy that Jason and Kibbey, two of 's biggest rivals, are now right on his heels. Only a matter of time until Kibbey snatches the title of Australia's Best DK Player... Allen, it's time to get motivated, mate.

These two also bring 2016 into a tie with 2015 for new killscreeners.

Nice way to end the year. 

[xelnia]

These two also bring 2016 into a tie with 2015 for new killscreeners.

I count 9 this year.

Aaron Truitt     03/01/2016
Ryan Warmbrodt   03/21/2016
ACU-AZU          05/01/2016
Vincent Cote     05/02/2016
Damon Stewart    08/17/2016
ASN Esperle      08/28/2016
Andrew Garrett   09/24/2016
Michael Kibbey   12/15/2016
Jason Horner     12/28/2016

[ChrisP]

dadkk??

I'd totally forgotten about two of those.

Come to think of it, I guess I remember Andrew Garrett's, and Wes mentions "ASN Esperle" right there above.

ty sir, shows how out of the loop I've gotten...

[Barra]

Wow 90. How

[voodoo_chilly]

#5 Kill Screen listed for Rick Fothergill was not a killscreen.  I remember checking years ago on MARP and just rechecked. Game ended on L17-5 with final score of 685,800.

[ChrisP]

#5 Kill Screen listed for Rick Fothergill was not a killscreen.  I remember checking years ago on MARP and just rechecked. Game ended on L17-5 with final score of 685,800.

Welcome back, sir! 

I'll quote a post of mine from earlier in this thread (2013):

Added Rick Fothergill on 6/10/2006 as per this post.

I checked the EXIF data on the photo and it more or less agrees with the date Rick gave, only it's five days earlier on 6/5/2006. There are a number of camera-settings reasons why the time could be off, but this is good enough for me!

That bumps the list up to 54, but more importantly, puts Rick into pretty exclusive company as the fifth known kill screener and the fourth on arcade!

Be sure to check out Rick's post for additional details. His 685K MARP game was played earlier the very same day that he KSed. After he played on MAME, he went to his friend's house to try to KS on the cab. Looks like he succeeded.

[voodoo_chilly]

Wow, I never realized that.  I believe Rick then. A very great all-around gamer.  I just saw the link to his MARP score(on the main page by his name in this thread) of this thread and assumed that score was thought to be a killscreen.  Thanks for the clarification.

[ChrisP]

Shane Sawle dethrones  as King of the Aussies, then exactly one month later, Nathan Sheeks smashes it with a 967K killscreen. Rarely does anyone hit their first killscreen so bigly!

DK still hot in 2017!

[ChrisP]

Oops, I forgot one.

John McCurdy's 1.168 game (which, by the way, deserves a hell of a lot of credit, since less than two years ago it would have put him second only to Dean) ended with the killscreen that John has been intentionally avoiding up to now. He *barely* missed the intentional suicide on 22-1!

If nothing else, it's the hugest first-time KS well ever see...

[syscrusher]

Wow, 10 years since my first kill screen today.  Doesn't seem like that long.

[ChrisP]

love it, sir.

[Barra]

Pretty awesome stuff.

Obviously the 10 year anniversary for KoK was very recently as well. Amazing how strong the community still is.

Ben - Maybe some 10 year anniversary 1.1 attempts? 

[xelnia]

DKK-OKINAWA2 just streamed a 909,100 killscreen on Twitch:

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/188058919

It's November 6 in Japan right now, so that would be the date of the killscreen. I don't know if it's his first or what his PB is...or if he'll submit here or anything or whatever! Anyway, congrats DKK-OKINAWA2! 88888888

[ChrisP]

The stream seems to have expired, so I'm gonna assume that was MAME, but there it is!

We're getting close to three digits here, but the rate is slowing.

Will 2018 be the year we reach 100 killscreeners?