Author Topic: Help Wanted: Crazy Kong Arcade World Record History (Read 1467 times)

xelnia · « **on:** July 11, 2024, 10:02:12 pm »

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

Player	Score	Date
J.J. Cahill	568,400	2010-03-20
Justin Knucklez	579,700	2010-08-07
Jimmy Linderman	608,500	2010-09-25
Jeff Harrist	632,500	2014-04-25
Robbie Lakeman	637,200	2014-09-21
Robbie Lakeman	645,200	2015-12-23
Wes Copeland	667,600	2016-06-13
Robbie Lakeman	681,500	2016-08-17
Estel Goffinet	701,800	2024-07-07

Crazy Kong MAME World Record Progression

Player	Score	Date
"Crash"	434,700	1998-07-18
Ben Jos Walbeehm	613,000	1999-09-03
Jeff Wolfe	624,000	2000-07-11
Ben Jos Walbeehm	638,700	2001-12-07
Phil Tudose	685,200	2011-11-14
Jeff Wolfe	685,800	2013-12-10
Phil Tudose	708,700	2014-02-08
Phil Tudose	719,700	2014-03-04
Phil Tudose	723,700	2015-01-19
Phil Tudose	726,900	2015-05-22
Phil Tudose	735,100	2015-05-23
Phil Tudose	738,100	2015-05-24
Robbie Lakeman	746,400	2016-09-09
Phil Tudose	773,200	2016-10-08
Robbie Lakeman	793,300	2016-10-13
Phil Tudose	797,600	2019-11-13
Phil Tudose	811,600	2019-11-17
Justin Elliott	833,200	2023-01-30
John McCurdy	852,100	2023-02-17

Dk_madness · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2024, 06:43:36 am »

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.