King of Kong

Hope he makes it - the web stream is choking now at 10,700 viewers (though it'll drop thousands randomly) and the score at 970k, but I guess he'll try again tomorrow if he doesn't make it.

Aw shit, there it is!

Damn, 989k, and he still had an extra life left!

aw that's a shame. terrific entertainment though.

also, fair play to him playing this in front of so many people. I wonder if he knew at any point that 10,000 people were viewing on line.

:((

saw this last night and thought it was good.

biggest douche in this movie is easily Brian Kuh

w00t:
http://www.asylum.com/2010/03/10/asylum-salutes-hank-chien-the-new-king-of-kong-billy-mitchell-steve-wiebe-twin-galaxies/

He also thinks there is a limit to what humans can achieve in the game.

so theres no telling what mitchell can do

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.asylum.com/media/2010/03/immy.jpg
this picture=priceless

"Billy is sort of retired, and I've never met the man, but I wouldn't be surprised if he did something surprising."

Steve Wiebe once again regained the world record in September 2010, with a score of 1,064,500

LET'S GO

i think christmas is gonna be aaaaalright

http://bulk.destructoid.com/ul/194369-regular-show-representing-the-retro-gamer/RegularShow-BillyMitchell-620x.jpg

i need to watch that show more often.

you need to watch every episode of that show ever made (except for the one where margaret and rigby get mordechai super jealous which is not good but it is, thus far, the only not good episode yet)

What the hell show is that?

REGULAR SHOW

currently among the best shows on television
start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfmy8L4eYPw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LrXYqtlbzM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve45tBg3FZo

this makes a great double-feature with "chasing ghosts", both involve roughly the same characters, except "ghosts" is a lot creepier and more depressing; it doesn't really do these guys any favors. some rough words for our DK champ - "FUCK Billy Mitchell" and "we used to call him Silly Bitchell"...loved it. Yeah Mitchell is kind of a dick but he's kind of a badass which makes this world so much more endearing

King of Kong is a lot more fun (even my mom liked it!) and arguably a "better" movie, but I've probably watched Chasing Ghosts twice as many times by this point; there are just so many more details to soak up. also it has the scene with Robert Mruczek's "art" collection, i.e. the best scene in either one.

yeah I totally called that one as he was opening it..."it's gotta be porn, right?"

They're both great movies but King of Kong loses a few points since parts of it have kind of been exposed as fabrications; if you read the interviews with Billy Mitchell he seems to be a lot more of a complex person than he appears in the film, and they do intentionally omit several things to make it tell a better story; whereas Chasing Ghosts has the aura of "you really couldn't make this up"

aww, 'chasing ghosts' not available on netflix

btw: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/03/11/hank-chien-destroyed-his-own-donkey-kong-record.aspx

yeah I totally called that one as he was opening it..."it's gotta be porn, right?"

thanks a lot for this, now I don't have to wonder how the scene develops when I get to see the movie

enjoy, it's amazing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iteB7wQckh4

that's Barcade in the first part iirc.

"basically the guy experienced hallucinations. So right now this is just icing on the cake right now. I've done it before so it's no challenge to me.

aw, i got turned off when he got into dumbfuck fantasy artporn

Saw Chasing Ghosts last night - loved it. Dude spending £300k on fantasy porn was the most WTF of many WTF moments. What was the score (pun!) withe the guy with the xmas stockings up all year round? Was he for real mentally ill? (as opposed to the others, but you know . . . )

Got King of Kong to watch tonight.

thanks a lot for this, now I don't have to wonder how the scene develops when I get to see the movie

you probably shouldn't be reading threads about a movie if spoilers like "this guy has a porn collection" bother you that much, plus this is a documentary so wtf

Watched King of Kong - less good than chasing ghosts, imo. But maybe that's more CG being awesome, than KoK being poor.

Poking around the Twin Galaxies website, I found this lengthy set of posts going into great detail just how much KoK omitted from the documentary to make a good story. The big one was how Billy Mitchell's taped high million-point score was only a high score for two days after fantasy porn dude decided that allowing it in wasn't quite playing by the game. This was one of the big dramatic turns in the doc, and if it turns out that the story wasn't quite how it appeared then it kinda undermines the fun of the whole film, imo. Course, it's one word against another, but it gets past my bullshit filter.

In related news, poking around the scoreboard, it turns out there's no world record been posted for Civilization II on PS! I'm not even very good at Civ but I fancy being a world record holder. I might book a long weekend off work and tape myself setting a world record. How cool would that be!

What the hell show is that?

― Buff Orpington (Abbbottt), Saturday, March 12, 2011 8:09 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Abbott you should totally watch Regular Show!

I should probably see this King of Kong movie.

ha you should

Oh yeh, and thanks to this thread for introducing em to the Regular Show, that thing's awesome. 'Ello Gov'nor!

yah ade, you will love k of k

good luck with the civ 2 run. sounds dangerous

If you all lived here I would take you to Funspot. It's, well, really fun. Also = amazing people watching possibilities.

All the champions have their pictures on the wall like a hall of fame type thing and they have the oldest arcade game ever there.

you live near Funspot??!? so jealous

It's about a two hour drive but doable for a day excursion. One of my friends does a big trip every year for his birthday.

AND there's a place down the road from it that has an all you can eat ice cream sundae bar! :-O

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Funspotsign.JPG/450px-Funspotsign.JPG

!!!

Civ 2 run shouldn't be too hard. I'm sure I can bomb through a playthrough in around 12 hours, and you're allowed 15 minutes break every 3 hours, none of this freon-spraying nonsense.

... not sure if i should google 'freon-spraying' ...