Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Mark Alpiger of King of Kong plays DOJ



This past weekend, Mark Alpiger and I got together to take a bit of a road trip, meeting up with a number of classic arcade world record holders and notables, including Walter Day of Twin Galaxies.

The first night he came into town, he stayed with me and we played a bunch of Crystal Castles, but I also got him to play a round of DOJ. Surprisingly, he's played Dodonpachi a number of times. This was his first shot at DOJ, captured on film for posterity.

5 comments:

gunbird18 said...

That was great, drboom! Very entertaining! Mark was cracking me up!

"I want that..I want my honeybee, my hornet!"

After the 1st boss's first wave of bullets - "Is that all you got..ooohhhhh, shit!"

Classic!


I also got a kick out of his dislike of the 29" screen. Its funny how we candy cab owners would feel very cheated if we had to play on a 19" screen. We do come to expect a big screen in order to navigate all of the curtains of fire. We've come a long way from the Pac-man/Donkey Kong screens!

Dave said...

awesome...

drboom said...

Pretty good thread that gets derailled very often about it on shmups in the Off Topic section:

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=28832

Arcade Fever said...

Mark is a good sport for having you film this. Very enjoyable to watch authentic 80s arcade attitude and smack talking against a more modern arcade shooter.

drboom said...

Yeah, he was hella cool about me filming. Good guy, talks a lot of shit when he plays, especially at the game. Totally entertaining.