Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong And Pac-Man Scores Are Reinstated By Guinness World Records
"I wanted to clear my name"
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Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong And Pac-Man Scores Are being Reinstated By Guinness World Records
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Hrmmm....
"After its own fair and unbiased investigation...'
That's...not evidence! "He didn't need to cheat" is what made this shit pathetic in the first place. He didn't need to does not mean he did not or would not---because it sure as shit seems like he in fact did.
"After its own fair and unbiased investigation...'
That's...not evidence! "He didn't need to cheat" is what made this shit pathetic in the first place. He didn't need to does not mean he did not or would not---because it sure as shit seems like he in fact did.
I always knew that Billy Mitchell didn't cheat. The dude is an ahole but so are all showmans. And that's what he is, first and foremost. The twitter cancel culture was strong with this one.
The man did a lot to advance the popularity of arcade games, is a bonafide genius at Pacman, and has the skills to backup his records to play live in front of people. Reminder, he got a perfect pacman score LIVE in front of millions of people over television. Who else can say that?
The man did a lot to advance the popularity of arcade games, is a bonafide genius at Pacman, and has the skills to backup his records to play live in front of people. Reminder, he got a perfect pacman score LIVE in front of millions of people over television. Who else can say that?
I mean, I can find 25 people that would testify that I did not take that cookie from the cookie jar, also.
I don't think there's a single guy in the world of video games I cannot wait to stop hearing about more than Billy Mitchell.
Yeah, that's a pretty weak excuse. In speed running it's pretty well known that the best cheaters are all capable of record runs themselves, which is why their cheats are so well constructed.
no somebody looked at an old tape and showed evidence that it was captured on an emulator. you are not allowed to use emulators for official world records. wasn't mitchell suing guiness? guessing they just wanted to get rid of the lawsuit because it can't be worth the headache. honestly who even gives a shit about guiness world records these days.
I guess they decided it wasn't an emulator then
Or he just started suing people and they said fuck it lol
He also claimed to have NEVER played using MAME even though the evidence is right there.
Absolutely pathetic. All they have is character testimony. That doesn't prove he didn't cheat. That doesn't change at all; that was never in question, that he had the skills to do that if he really wanted. That's just part of what made it even more pathetic, that he clearly does indeed have the skills, but cheated anyway.
In any case, there's no evidence here just "he has skills" which is completely immaterial to whether those particular records were generated by cheating or not, which they were.
In any case, there's no evidence here just "he has skills" which is completely immaterial to whether those particular records were generated by cheating or not, which they were.
Even if he didn't cheat and his scores were legit play on MAME, it doesn't change the fact he lied about using MAME, and his records should be flagged as such. He did not accomplish those scores on legit hardware which is why those scores have their own category on the leader boards.
I always saw Ben Stiller, but I could see Tom Cruise pulling it off lol.
I really wished they had gone through with the King of Kong movie. Jason Bateman would have been perfect for Steve Wiebe.
I've seen some people saying that Guinness was just sick of the continual lawsuits so they reinstated his records. Billy Mitchell saying Never Surrender is fitting because his annoying persistence is the only reason he got what he wanted.
Twitch keeps recommending his stream to me for some reason, and I've seen that he's been playing an ungodly amount of Pac Man recently. So I was like "oh cool, Billy Mitchell redeemed himself with his Twitch playing." But then I read the article and it kind of sounds like bullshit again.
This will make for some interesting YouTube drama.
This will make for some interesting YouTube drama.
But can you convince the cookie Inquisitor? I hear he is ruthless! You will confess to cheating in Donkey Kong and taking the cookie!
This is sarcasm right? It was very obvious he cheated. His ability to not need to is a totally different thing
In 2020 Guiness has no bearing on the video game world. https://www.speedrun.com/ is pretty much the definitve place to get your video game records from at this point. Also playing for score is passe.
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"There has never and will never be an emulation board that plugs into a Donkey Kong machine. It is simply impossible for anything but legitimate hardware to have been inside Billy Mitchell's machine."
I saw the MAME evidence/argument and that seemed solid, but if it not possible to use it on a DK machine it kinda makes the argument moot, right?
I saw the MAME evidence/argument and that seemed solid, but if it not possible to use it on a DK machine it kinda makes the argument moot, right?
