On September 7th, 2019, I got my first DK killscreen! 823,900
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/173601697170587648/620104653698498610/IMG_20190907_204801054.jpgSo I had a decent game going on Ken House's cabinet, and he decided to try to get the stream up while I was in the middle of the game. As a result, the stream archive isn't complete and starts around 580k. At the very least, some world-class classic arcade gamers were in attendance to at least witness it (Ken House, Ross Benziger, Bill Carlton, Sam McNear). I think it's already been accepted but I'm just posting for posterity's sake.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/478481297And yes... this was my first killscreen. My PB for the longest time was 543k, but I had a breakout game at Ground Kontrol for their "game of the month" competition last month and ended up reaching 19-4 and raised the PB by almost exactly 200k to 743k. With Ken hosting games at his house this weekend I decided to give it another shot, especially after some egging on and pointing out that the high score of 808,200 on the save kit was still held by Jeff Harrist when he visited nearly 6 years ago. Apparently nobody had ever gotten a kill screen on that specific cabinet while Ken's had it, so I'm not sure how I ended up being the first.
Am I going to further pursue going for higher scores, like a million or more? Doubtful. I have enough other things I want to play and mainly just wanted to get a DK killscreen just to say I'd done it. I am terrible at bottom hammer strats and am not really interested in trying to stretch out games as long as I can. But at least I'm finally in the cool kids killscreen club
