The King of Kong (2007)

[fantasticdan]

The whole thing is pretty fake. I remember google-ing some of this stuff after watching it, and it's not that the film presents incorrect information, but the way some things are emphasized while other facts are completely glossed over, it ends up implying a lot of things that aren't true.

Like the scene where mitchell drives away when wiebe is at his restaurant, in reality they had actually talked inside and mitchell had paid for their lunch before he left. The two HAD played together at other events, prior to the scene at the end of the film. The dudes that came to inspect his machine didn't break into his garage like the film implied, they were let in by his mother (in law?) and didn't take apart the machine until wiebe was there with his consent. When they called out wiebes video tape of the 1,000,000+ whatever score, the documentary implies that the record holder would once again be mitchell, when in reality it just went back to another one of wiebes scores, that was completely ignored by the film.

There were a lot of other "inaccuracies" like this, some reading on the matter if anyone is interested:

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165895
http://www.twingalaxies.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=86

Seemed like an interesting movie at first, but in the end just re-solidifies my hatred for this type of film-making.

[Kiyuan98]

As mentioned before in my op, I don't understand why Twin Galaxies accepts recorded tapes for world records via live games of DK:J runs.

omg world record !!111 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWaT8WmoDis

..not

[Yangsing]

Pretty good documentary even though there's alot of information lacking. You look up douchebag in the dictionary and there should be a picture of Billy Mitchell.

[Olo401]

Pretty good documentary even though there's alot of information lacking. You look up douchebag in the dictionary and there should be a picture of Billy Mitchell.

He stole his look from Chris "Jesus" Ferguson too... fuckin' copycats.

[Warudo Ecksu]

watched it with the bf when it came out on dvd. the one part we still joke about.........


DADDY WIPE MY BUTTTTTTTT

[6souls]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...y-kong-royalty

Quite the bump, but worth it. Billy Mitchell has been stripped of all of his records by Twin Galaxies and the Guinness World Records because he obtained his record scores on a emulator.

[Zealot]

Finally, a happy ending.

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[LinktheDeme]

I met the guy when he and the creator of pacman came to Illinois for the release of the movie. He was a complete tool that kept trying to force his signature on everything people were trying to get signed by Iwatani.

[Zetanio]

SWEET SWEET JUSTICE.

Fuck that dude.

[Xno Kappa]

Playing on an emulator is a huge no go in that community.

[Krandor]

Does it actually fucking matter if it's being emulated properly? Or just nerds doing their usual gatekeeping and elitism?

[Anoat]

SWEET SWEET JUSTICE.

Fuck that dude.

The most annoying thing in that whole documentary to me was not Billy himself but his little bitch toadie that went around grabbing everyone in the arcade "HEY WE'RE ABOUT TO GET A KILL SCREEN ON DONKEY KONG IF YOU WANNA SEE IT", knowing full well he was trying to fuck over that dude trying to break the record.

[Zetanio]

"Possible kill screen"

[Xno Kappa]

Does it actually fucking matter if it's being emulated properly? Or just nerds doing their usual gatekeeping and elitism?

I know at least in the speed running community they lose their fucking shit for even suggesting an emulator.

[6souls]

Does it actually fucking matter if it's being emulated properly? Or just nerds doing their usual gatekeeping and elitism?

The decision came after a lengthy arbitration process determined that Mitchell used the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) to achieve some record scores that had been said to be performed on arcade machines, a violation of Twin Galaxies’ rules.

Guinness continued, “We also recognize records for First perfect score on Pac-Man and Highest score on Pac-Man. Twin Galaxies was the original source of verification for these record titles and in line with their decision to remove all of Mr. Mitchell’s records from their system, we have disqualified Mr. Mitchell as the holder of these two records. Guinness World Records will look to update and find the appropriate holder of these records in the next few days.”

Mitchell had supposedly achieved the first perfect score in Pac-Man on July 4, 1999, at Funspot Family Fun Center in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire. He was declared “Video Game Player of the Century” at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show later that year and presented an award by Namco founder Masaya Nakamura.

https://kotaku.com/after-donkey-kong...-of-1825240701

[Day]

The most annoying thing in that whole documentary to me was not Billy himself but his little bitch toadie that went around grabbing everyone in the arcade "HEY WE'RE ABOUT TO GET A KILL SCREEN ON DONKEY KONG IF YOU WANNA SEE IT", knowing full well he was trying to fuck over that dude trying to break the record.

has to be in the top 5 cringe moments ever recorded

[Day]

Does it actually fucking matter if it's being emulated properly? Or just nerds doing their usual gatekeeping and elitism?

i guess abusing save states are the concern?

[Yuri-G]

SWEET SWEET JUSTICE.

Fuck that dude.

you know when zet and I agree it's serious


fuckkkkkk that guy

[NynJa]

Finally some real social justice!

[Yuri-G]

you know when NynJa and I agree it's serious


fuckkkkkk that guy

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