Move over Billy Mitchell and Steve Weiebe - there's a new king in town. According to record-keeping organization Twin Galaxies, newcomer Hank Chien has taken the Donkey Kong world record with a new high score of 1,061,700. The record was set during a 2 hour and 35 minute play session at an arcade cabinet in New York.

"I remember the exact day I knew 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 fired up my Donkey Kong machine - I wasn't recording of course - and on my first game, boom! Too bad getting 1,000,000 takes about 2 1/2 hours. Still, I caught my flight without getting any speeding tickets, but I realized I couldn't speed and text."

Chien says that he started playing the game after seeing the popular documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. That documentary ended with Weibe overtaking then record-holder Mitchell. Mitchell then took the record back with a score of 1,050,200 which stood for three years until Chien showed up on the scene.

<via 1UP>

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