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Billy Mitchell contests game record removals & demands reinstatement

By ForceFlow

4 years ago


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Post #219 Guinness reinstated Billy Mitchell's scores Posted by CNKay (3 years ago)

Post #401 Links to court case summaries Posted by ForceFlow (5 months ago)


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#31 4 years ago
Quoted from Damagio:

Interesting development for sure. After watching The King of Kong, I found him to be very unlikeable and very evasive with challengers. No doubt he is an incredible player and hopefully the truth will come out.

I found him to be very entertaining in that film. Kind of like a wrestling heel from back in the 80s. He pulls off the bad guy routine beautifully.

#64 4 years ago
Quoted from MD_Pinball_Dude:

First World Problems here. Seriously, I can't even imagine what the attraction is. Get on with your life.

You're on a pinball forum, on a thread you think is pointless, telling people to get a life. Do you not see the irony in that statement??

Disregard. I see someone already noticed and posted about the ridiculousness of your post.

#134 4 years ago
Quoted from Syco54645:

Yes. Billy is hilarious and VERY nice. There is Billy Mitchell the man and then Billy Mitchell the character. The character is a crass asshole. The man is a nice guy that one would like to have a beer with.

That's always been my suspicion.

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#215 4 years ago
Quoted from frolic:

The premise of the entire movie was that Billy had set a DK score 30 years earlier and was fighting to keep it.
How much does it affect the idea that the movie was staged to learn that Mitchell's score at that time had been beaten years prior, Billy was not the DK champ at that time, and there was a completely different person (not spoken of in the movie at all) that was the DK record holder?
So the whole thing was a construction.
I remember reading some posts at the time revealing that the scene with scores being given to Billy over the phone (which seemed like him paying attention to Steve Wiebe's DK attempts because he cared) were actually Joust scores.
Or the scene with the tape being shown to the cabin of players and them all going "whooooo" was a wrestling tape.
There were more examples, but that just gives an idea of how things seemingly filming real life can be edited into a work of fiction.
I don't think anyone is too upset, ultimately, about their portrayals though because that movie single-handely made TG relevant and all those classic gamers names instead of nobodies.

Real or not, it's still a very entertaining movie, imo. BM, plays the role of a heel to a tee.

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