10 Video Game Records That Can’t Be Beat

6. Highest Donkey Kong Score Of All Time

You may have heard about the likes of the original Pac-Man actually falling apart and throwing up random code onscreen if you advance past its 250th level, but it is possible to play a perfect game of Donkey Kong, achieving the highest score of all time in the process.

Such a thing was done by Wes Copeland, a player who's routinely held, lost and reclaimed the Donkey Kong high score for decades, eventually managing to take the first life the game gives you, before holding onto it right until the end.

This method results in the highest score possible, and Copeland's efforts rewarded him with a whopping 1,218,000 points, which took a solid three hours and 20 minutes of ludicrously intense concentration to achieve.