Steve Wiebe (pictured) will shoot for the Donkey Kong high score next week at the Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco.
Gamasutra reports that Wiebe will appear at the booth for Atlassian, a maker of bug-tracking software, where he will sign autographs and do his darndest to beat rival Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong high score.
Steve Wiebe is best known for his appearance in the documentary King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The documentary followed Wiebe, the underdog in a competition to nail the high score in notoriously difficult arcade game Donkey Kong. In the film Wiebe bested the charismatic Mitchell, but in 2007 Mitchell beat the record.
Just this month, Wiebe re-gained the title of best Donkey Kong Jr. player by posting a score of 1,190,400 points.
Wiebe made a similar attempt to recapture the Donkey Kong high score at E3 last year. Depsite reaching the game's kill screen, Wiebe wasn't able to beat Mitchell's score.
Top: Still from King of Kong courtesy Picturehouse
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