King of Kong

smithnic
smithnic Posts: 1,565
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Anybody seen this really cool documentary? It's about, quite frankly, these losers whose whole life goal is to have the best score ever in 80's arcade games. This guy, Billy Mitchel, is such a turd about it too! He is never seen playing, and probably hasn't since the 80's, but he's set all these records in Pac Man and others and now lives his whole life like the biggest d-bag because of it. This laid-off guy from Seattle comes along and beats him but the group that keeps track of all this is totally sided with this guy Billy.

Really all that documentaries are really about.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,949
    smithnic wrote:
    Anybody seen this really cool documentary? It's about, quite frankly, these losers whose whole life goal is to have the best score ever in 80's arcade games. This guy, Billy Mitchel, is such a turd about it too! He is never seen playing, and probably hasn't since the 80's, but he's set all these records in Pac Man and others and now lives his whole life like the biggest d-bag because of it. This laid-off guy from Seattle comes along and beats him but the group that keeps track of all this is totally sided with this guy Billy.

    Really all that documentaries are really about.
    one day there will be a documentary....

    about a bunch of PEARL JAM fans who spent their life traveling to shows....and saved every ticket stub...
    who spent all their money buying posters...
    who bought every cd
    who bought every vinyl
    who bought every t-shirt
    who bought every hoodie......

    and people will refer to the pearl jam fans as....LOSERS!!!!

    hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe...................
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  • FoxyMop
    FoxyMop Posts: 303
    I've actually seen it, though I don't remember the ending. Didn't the one guy get shunned from his community for some reason?

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  • mfc2006
    mfc2006 HTOWN Posts: 37,491
    yeah---i remember this! i thought it was an interesting movie...didn't the guy practice in his garage & "face off" against the champion?? and then he beat him & they said that his score wasn't valid?
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  • mnicole22
    mnicole22 Posts: 417
    I saw it last year and I LOVED it. These guys were such sad little things, but their commitment was unreal!

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  • Fifthelement
    Fifthelement Lotusland Posts: 6,965
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    smithnic wrote:
    Anybody seen this really cool documentary? It's about, quite frankly, these losers whose whole life goal is to have the best score ever in 80's arcade games. This guy, Billy Mitchel, is such a turd about it too! He is never seen playing, and probably hasn't since the 80's, but he's set all these records in Pac Man and others and now lives his whole life like the biggest d-bag because of it. This laid-off guy from Seattle comes along and beats him but the group that keeps track of all this is totally sided with this guy Billy.

    Really all that documentaries are really about.
    one day there will be a documentary....

    about a bunch of PEARL JAM fans who spent their life traveling to shows....and saved every ticket stub...
    who spent all their money buying posters...
    who bought every cd
    who bought every vinyl
    who bought every t-shirt
    who bought every hoodie......

    and people will refer to the pearl jam fans as....LOSERS!!!!

    hehehehehehehehehehehehehehe...................



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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    A fistful of dollars!
    Yeah i really dug this doc too!
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  • Brain of mJ
    Brain of mJ Posts: 786
    I watched this on netflix online a few months back. Good documentary considering the subject matter. I always love docs when you come out of it saying, who knew this world existed. And yeah, Billy is a douchebag.
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    That's a great documentary!
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    Brain of (M)J wrote:
    I always love docs when you come out of it saying, who knew this world existed.

    Me too. :)
  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Loved this movie.

    Although if I lost my job, and wanted to do nothing but play video games professionally, I think my wife would kick my ass.

    Word Wars is coming up soon in my Netflix queue. It's a similar concept, but about professional Scrabble players.
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  • toddiet123
    toddiet123 Posts: 271
    I just read this...

    Gaming champion Steve Wiebe will try to reclaim the Donkey Kong record June 2 ... and it's going to air live on TV

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