Restaurateur Billy Mitchell holds the high score for several arcade games, including the original 1981 release of Donkey Kong. Walter Day is the founder of Twin Galaxies, an organization dedicated to tracking high scores in arcade games, especially those from the golden age of arcade games of the early 1980s. The film premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival and was released in U.S. It follows Steve Wiebe in his attempts to take the high score record for the 1981 arcade game Donkey Kong from Billy Mitchell. That's my true passion, and that's what I'm going to be doing.The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a 2007 American documentary film about competitive arcade gaming directed by Seth Gordon. But more than anything, I want to get back to work - the ambassadorship, competitive gaming, the legacy that's going to leave behind long after we're gone. "I guess it's too difficult to say no to that, so I guess maybe I do. "Do I want future world records?" Mitchell said. Then, in September 2019, Mitchell threatened to sue Guinness over the removal of his records. As Guinness partners with Twin Galaxies to adjudicate video game-based records, it disqualified the records in question. In April 2019, Twin Galaxies determined a number of Donkey Kong score tapes submitted by Mitchell were not achieved on an "unmodified original DK arcade PCB as per the competitive rules". He hit mainstream headlines after being the focus of 2007 film The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters alongside fellow Donkey Kong high score chaser Steve Wiebe. Mitchell is a controversial figure in the retro video game community. In the same video, Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day said he was "very pleased to see this happen, and I had faith it would come out this way because all of those people who were part of the old days, who played the old games and saw Billy Mitchell play - they knew he was completely capable of getting these records, and they also knew that there was no MAME being available to be played on back in the old golden age". In the video below, Mitchell hailed the news, saying he will now focus on getting his video game career back on track.
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The records archive has been updated accordingly to reflect this." "In this case, a re-examination of the records in question and the emergence of key eyewitness and expert testimonials led to a reversal of earlier disqualifications and the reinstating of Mr Mitchell's original records. "In the light of compelling new evidence received by Guinness World Records, the Records Management Team has unanimously decided to reverse decisions made in April 2018 in regards to video game high scores achieved by Billy Mitchell between 19," Guinness World Records said in a statement. In a video message, Guinness World Records editor-in-chief, Craig Glenday said that after an investigation, Guinness now again recognises a raft of classic records, including Mitchell's first perfect score on Pac-Man from July 1999, that were disqualified over concern Mitchell achieved them on an emulator rather than legitimate arcade hardware.
Guinness World Records has reinstated Billy Mitchell's disqualified world records for Pac-Man and Donkey Kong.
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