Yeah, I decided to take part in Bad this month too.
On a side note, I tried to link my BaD post to the Blog a Day series, but it doesn't show up as a blog when I click the Blog A Day ticker on the front page. Just FYI.
Kong a Day #1 - Warming Up
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 On 02/01/2014 at 06:53 PM by Travis Hawks See More From This User » |
All of you dedicated bloggers have me inspired to at least try participating in BaD this year. I’d never even considered taking part back on 1up (where I wasn’t all that active anyway), but I figure I might as well give it a shot this year. Since I know I won’t have anything too interesting to talk about from my daily life for an entire month, I came up with a gimmick – and one I’m excited to undertake.
Since I own a Donkey Kong cabinet, I periodically try to get better at it. The last thing I want to be is a Donkey Kong poseur. I’ve dedicated myself to improving my score a couple of times, but it’s been a while. At first, I couldn’t get to 50,000 points no matter how hard I tried, but after hitting it hard for a week, I got there. Same thing with 100,000. Since I hit that milestone, I’ve only messed around, and my high score has sat at 131,700 for a while now. I’m hoping to get up to the 200K mark this time, if for no other reason than to post in a thread for such people on klov.
I’m going to do my best to play at least one game of Donkey Kong a day and then post my score(s) here, good or bad. I’ll also try to throw out some things I find interesting about this pretty important arcade game along the way. For my first day, I’m just going to stick to my scores, though. I didn’t do too badly since I’m out of practice. My first game came in at 94,100 and the second at 81,000. Hopefully I’ll do better tomorrow (and take a better picture of the screen).
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