pendell
2018-04-15, 08:08 AM
Variety has the story (http://variety.com/2018/gaming/news/king-of-kong-stripped-of-title-1202751358/)
Famed high-score gamer Billy Mitchell, best known for his role in “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” documentary, was officially stripped of his “Donkey Kong” and other video game high scores and banned from submitting scores to the world’s largest tracker of video game world records following a decision that he cheated, Twin Galaxies announced today.
“With this ruling, Twin Galaxies can no longer recognize Billy Mitchell as the first million point ‘Donkey Kong’ record holder,” the group wrote in its announcement. “According to our findings, Steve Wiebe would be the official 1st million point record holder.”
Evidently the high scores he submitted were rolled up on MAME , not on the original hardware, and of course with Mame you can do all sorts of things like save and load game states to prevent yourself from dying. I never made a few tens of thousands of points on Donkey Kong myself ; it was an old-school quarter eater, designed to take your money, give you a few minutes of play, then ruthlessly kill you so someone else could donate their money to the cause :smallamused:
Respectfully,
Brian P.
Famed high-score gamer Billy Mitchell, best known for his role in “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters” documentary, was officially stripped of his “Donkey Kong” and other video game high scores and banned from submitting scores to the world’s largest tracker of video game world records following a decision that he cheated, Twin Galaxies announced today.
“With this ruling, Twin Galaxies can no longer recognize Billy Mitchell as the first million point ‘Donkey Kong’ record holder,” the group wrote in its announcement. “According to our findings, Steve Wiebe would be the official 1st million point record holder.”
Evidently the high scores he submitted were rolled up on MAME , not on the original hardware, and of course with Mame you can do all sorts of things like save and load game states to prevent yourself from dying. I never made a few tens of thousands of points on Donkey Kong myself ; it was an old-school quarter eater, designed to take your money, give you a few minutes of play, then ruthlessly kill you so someone else could donate their money to the cause :smallamused:
Respectfully,
Brian P.