Steven J. Wiebe (; born January 3, 1969) is an American two-time world champion of the video game Donkey Kong, most recently holding the title from September 20, 2010, to January 10, 2011, with a high score of 1,064,500. Wiebe was the first person to achieve over a million points on Donkey Kong, with 1,006,600 on July 4, 2004. He is one of the primary subjects of the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Like his Donkey Kong rival Billy Mitchell, Wiebe was put in a Topps Allen & Ginter baseball set, which is featured in the 2009 edition of the baseball product.
Early life
Wiebe was born in Seattle, Washington to Ryan and Sandy Wiebe. He has a brother, Ryan, and a sister, Cathy. He attended Newport High School in Bellevue, Washington. He developed an interest in music at an early age.
He graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington in 1991.
Career
From 1996 to 1999 he worked at Boeing as a testing and analysis engineer, and from 1999 to 2001 he worked at the Bsquare corporation in Bellevue as a software testing engineer. In 2004 Wiebe earned a Master of Education at City University of Seattle.
In December 2009, he released a Contemporary Christian album, The King of Song.