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"The King of Kong, A Fist Full of Quarters"
massive88:
Im not commenting on if it wasnt a dick move or not, just the facts of that tape and score, thats all.
It was for submission, and it was approved, initially. That score from that play-through was never approved after that weekend.
shmokes:
And all I'm commenting on is that Billy Mitchell is a gigantic --cream-filled twinkie--. He's so ridiculous in almost every way that he seems like a freaking cartoon character.
shmokes:
BTW, I go up to Hollywood on a regular basis. Really nice beaches. Maybe I'll run into him some time.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote from: shmokes on June 13, 2008, 01:33:48 pm ---Yeah, but what you don't seem to realize is that the email doesn't erase all the ---Cleveland steamer--- they did. They didn't send the email because they became better people. They sent it because after everything Steve did, there was no way they could continue treating him the way they had, no matter how much they'd like to. I mean, WTF, they had a policy of accepting scores based on videotape. That one guy's job was to review videotapes for just that purpose. But when they got one that showed Weibe beating Mitchell's score they suddenly changed the policy just for that tape. They even sent people to his garage to verify the integrity of the board he was playing on. One has to wonder why they went to this trouble since finding absolutely nothing wrong with his board led to the conclusion that his tape could not be accepted. WTF?
Regardless of whether they pulled Mitchell's taped score off the website after 48 hours, it was an unethical, petty slap in the face to Weibe that they put it up at all. Did Walter send anybody to Mitchell's house to inspect the board of the machine he was playing on? Did his tape show signs of cheating (oh, wait, it actually did . . .)? There was one simple dynamic at work there, the Twin Galaxy judges (one of whom was Billy Mitchell himself) didn't want to see Billy Mitchell lose his #1 ranking. They set up a bunch of artificial hoops that nobody ever had to jump through besides Steve Weibe, hoping that he would just disappear (and if not for the Guinness thing it probably would have worked). Once he finally jumped through all of the hoops they practically had no choice but to apologize. I would hardly call that magnanimous.
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Twin Galaxies gave Steve no problems with his first submission (also his record on Donkey Kong Jr). It was only after they found out he was using a Double Donkey Kong board that they had a problem (it's not allowed).
Steve went to Funspot to prove that he could produce a score like that. Up until the tape in question, no one had been known to have played a million+ game.
Ginsu Victim:
Here's a quick timeline of some events:
1982 - Bill set the high score in Donkey Kong with 874k (public).
2000 - Tim Szcerby breaks the record with 879k (taped).
2003 - Steve Wiebe breaks the record with 947k (taped).
2004 - Bill gets 933k in public for 2nd place. Rumor has it that he has broken 1 million in private.
2004 - Steve gets 1.006 million on tape and submits it.
2004 - Bill and Steve both reveal at CGE2K4 that they have over 1 million on tape.
2005 - Steve's 1.006 is hung up in the verification process so he decided to go to Funspot to prove himself. Steve is still (and has been for nearly 2 years) the official world record holder with his verified 947k score from 2003. He scores 985k at Funspot. Bill's 1.047m tape is revealed the next day.
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