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http://m.ign.com/articles/2018/04/13/donkey-kong-champ-billy-mitchell-stripped-of-title
Billy Mitchell was the “bad guy” in this documentary exploring Steve Weibe’s attempts to set the high score on the arcade game “Donkey Kong.”
It it was discovered that his scores were not achieved on an official PCB from an original arcade cabinet, and as such weren’t correctly submitted, and are therefore invalid. He has been stripped of his records and banned from all future submissions.
I searched her here and found a few mentions of this documentary, but didn’t see a thread dedicated to it. If you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty entertaining...and they certainly paint Billy as a villain. It’s interesting to see that he may not have been on the up and up all along.
Billy Mitchell was the “bad guy” in this documentary exploring Steve Weibe’s attempts to set the high score on the arcade game “Donkey Kong.”
It it was discovered that his scores were not achieved on an official PCB from an original arcade cabinet, and as such weren’t correctly submitted, and are therefore invalid. He has been stripped of his records and banned from all future submissions.
I searched her here and found a few mentions of this documentary, but didn’t see a thread dedicated to it. If you haven’t seen this, it’s pretty entertaining...and they certainly paint Billy as a villain. It’s interesting to see that he may not have been on the up and up all along.
