Donkey Kong scoreboard strips high score claim
HA!<p>The 2007 documentary &quot;The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters&quot; is my favorite movie of all-time, I must have watched it at least 40 times. Trailer: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8hBs2oFjSWk" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=8hBs2oFjSWk</a><p>For those who haven&#x27;t seen the film, the contender Steve Wiebe sets a new record live at an arcade tournament in Funspot (NH) but reigning champ Billy Mitchell sends in a VHS tape with an even higher score.<p>The video gets fuzzy and looks suspicious but Mitchell&#x27;s toadies in the group immediately accept the score, despite refusing to previously accept a VHS tape from the contender Steve Wiebe.<p>Since the movie came out both men were left in the dust by new players, but recently the score-keepers slow-mo&#x27;ed Billy&#x27;s tapes and the Donkey Kong levels render the way MAME does them, not the actual arcade hardware. The current No. 2 ranked player (Wes Copeland) is basically corroborating this by running his performance through an app and determining the point ratios are off (e.g., too much from hammers).<p>Personally I don&#x27;t think Billy&#x27;s a bad guy, and the film actually shows him performing selfless acts for others, but if this allegation is true -- and it&#x27;s hard to argue with the data -- I do think this seriously compromises his integrity and position in classic gaming history.