King of Kong

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' ...

the freon spraying thing was a myth; I had to research it for work a couple of months ago and someone tracked down Vollandt and asked him and he said no (and the baby looked at me). I still choose to believe it's true and he's just trying to cover up his shameful nerdy past.

Just founf the Billy Mitchell fan club on facebook, it has six members and Steve Sanders does the admin! Major Lols.

founf = found

soon it will have 7 members.

nah i can't find it so i just joined one with a few thousand members. lots of milquetoast losers praising Weeb.

I joined! Just type in the Billy Mitchell fan club in search and it should send you to the right page.

Billy Mitchell fan club on facebook is up to 7 members now. Is there anyone else I wonder in the public eye who is disliked so much that they don't attract attention. Perhaps this is a question for a new thread hmmmm?

Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong video footage turned out to have been played on MAME with several splices.

http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=2055.0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=234Y76_3YPE

As DKF's (currently) sole high score moderator, I've taken my responsibilities very seriously.

I love his Walker Texas Ranger as Jedi Master sartorial vibe

o shit!

fuck billy mitchell!

Yes following this has been gratifying

lol, that son of a bitch

holy shitballs

After over 35 years of competitive gaming fame, Billy Mitchell has been banned from Twin Galaxies and had his scores struck from the record books, as two 2010 Donkey Kong scores were ruled not to have come from real arcade hardware: https://t.co/hpLPpbuYoT

— Retro Gamer (@RetroGamer_Mag) April 12, 2018

Pretty messed up. I've met Mitchell a couple times at retro gaming conventions, seemed nice and happy to be there and meet people. More than anything, I admired him for his wing business and sartorial eccentricities. It's sad that it was all built on lies.

so why didn't he just submit these as emulated ?

Well there’s chances of save states and game hacks that subtley produce more favorable results when using an emulator.

That is to say people trust original hardware submissions more. Emulator submissions will always be looked down upon as not being equivalent to the real thing so most people just avoid them.

plus I thought the tape was suspected of being spliced together from (presumably) dozens of runs. idk if they've proved it yet though

of course, that's not really the way life works in general

his gameplay footage gets way too "lucky". when there are random points awarded, he never gets the lowest ones. (the stuff about audio breaks is not true -- savestates make splices invisible.)

Omnigamer's Power Point Slides

The luck slide #14 is interesting but I don't suspect his scores were really that far off from normal. Omnigamer also didn't call it a smoking gun or anything in the presentaion video.

Also in slide #22 he states Myths going around. The idea that video splicing occurred is one of them since no credible evidence has ever been found.

but yeah.. save state splicing can be a thing etc...