Peter Dinklage in "Pixels".
Posted on 04/12/2018 8:39:29 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
Pac-Man and Donkey Kong master Billy Mitchell has built up quite the reputation for himself over the last few decades, both for his undeniable gaming skills and his abrasive and competitive personality. Unfortunately, it appears he’ll now be remembered for something else, as well: Cheating.
Twin Galaxies, a retro-gaming record organization that tracks scores in many classic arcade games, announced on April 12 that it was removing Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong scores from its leaderboards, as well as all scores he had achieved in other games.
The decision comes after the validity of several of his Donkey Kong scores were called into question, with skeptics asserting the footage captured for the records was impossible without the use of the software emulation program MAME. This is due to the way the software produces board transitions compared to the original hardware, and Twin Galaxies asserts the tape Mitchell used for the documentary "The_King_of_Kong: A Fistful of Quarters" was not recorded with original arcade hardware. The organization stopped short of saying MAME was used, as testing to determine this would be “beyond the scope” of what was needed for the investigation.
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Peter Dinklage in "Pixels".
“You can’t make up your own nickname!”
This ain’t over. If this guy gets a good lawyer, it’s on like donkey kong!
This takes me back a few years.
[Pac-Man and Donkey Kong master Billy Mitchell has built up quite the reputation for himself over the last few decades, both for his undeniable gaming skills and his abrasive and competitive personality]
How many hours were spent “honing his skills”? A wasted life.
Say it ain’t so, Billy, say it ain’t so!
Poor bastage was Court Marshall’d for saying bombers could sink ships. So they named the b-25 after him. Later Dolittle’s raiders bombed japan from carriers using them
Didn’t know the Donkey Kong connection
Twin Galaxies was the de facto record keeper when the games were new. I went for the Kickman record in 1982, able to play the game inddfinitely. My run was stopped 3 1/2 hours in when the coin-op hung. The only interesting part was when I earned 256 free unicycles, it reset to zero, so I had to make sure not to die then.
But having that accomplishment looks so good on a resume while applying for a job in a car wash.
The things some people choose to spend their time with...
He’ll lose those endorsement deals for sure, now.
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