Hank Chien of New York has set a new Donkey Kong record with a high score of 1,061,700 during a 2 hour, 35 minute play session. Chien, a plastic surgeon, said he started playing the game after seeing The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, and that before then he didn’t even know the kill screen existed. “I remember the exact day I could get the world record: September 13, 2009,” Chien said in an interview with Twin Galaxies. “That was the day I first broke a million on Donkey Kong to reach 1,037,700. I didn’t even realize how close I was to the world record. I was going on a business trip that day and had a flight to catch, but I had about two hours to kill and figured I had enough time for one game. So I figured up my Donkey Kong machine, and on my first game, boom! Too bad getting 1,000,000 takes about 2 1/2 hours.”

Source: Joystiq