{"id":91875,"date":"2016-05-10T17:28:10","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91875"},"modified":"2016-05-10T17:55:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:55:07","slug":"donkey-kong-player-breaks-world-record-gets-highest-possible-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/91875-donkey-kong-player-breaks-world-record-gets-highest-possible-score","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Kong player breaks world record &#8211; gets highest possible score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Copeland has earned the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10154145008633104&amp;set=a.486437773103.271346.672968103&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\">highest possible score<\/a><\/strong> in the 1981 platformer, Donkey Kong.<\/p>\n<p>The fierce\u00a0competition for\u00a0the Donkey Kong world record\u00a0has been finally resolved, as the high score set by Copeland is reportedly unbeatable, and has cemented his place as the King of Kong.<\/p>\n<p>Wes Copeland has regularly set world records for the 1981 video game, constantly improving on his previous scores.<\/p>\n<p>On 5 May 2016, Copeland beat his previous world record of 1,195,100 with a massive high score of <strong>1,218,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The expert Donkey Kong player has finally attained the perfect score, as his 3-hour high-score run did not contain a single mistake &#8211; meaning that no player will ever be able to surpass his achievement.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a little over 3 hours to kill, check out Copeland&#8217;s high-score run below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/23RNHhzMbew\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Best broadband service in South Africa for gaming\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/91397-best-broadband-service-in-south-africa-for-gaming.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Best broadband service in South Africa for gaming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/91689-hidden-playstation-4-features-only-power-users-know-about.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hidden PlayStation 4 features only power users know about<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Games you can play this week \u2013 danger and demons\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/91771-games-you-can-play-this-week-danger-and-demons.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Games you can play this week \u2013 danger and demons<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wes Copeland has earned the highest possible score in the 1981 platformer, Donkey Kong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":91881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18587,31,9630,18589,18593,18595,18591],"class_list":["post-91875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-18587","tag-active","tag-donkey-kong","tag-high-score","tag-king-of-kong","tag-unbeatable","tag-wes-copeland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}