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I was going to post something about our heros Bonds, McGuire and now Billy? Who is left to be our hero but suck at memes so ElectricDreamz is my hero.
 
"When you wanna put a score up and you wanna have a title of world champion, you're competing against everybody in the world. You want a title for your own living room? Man, l'll send you that title. Your own arcade? Man, l'll sign it,
and l'll make up a paper, and l'll send you a plaque. You want your name in the
Guinness Book of World Records and in the Twin Galaxies international scoreboard? You have to earn it. l have to earn it. There's a lot of scores
l've gotten. And when the time comes and the pressure is that hard, I'll have to do it in a public forum, as l always have."
 
Looks like he's not going to get all the girls anymore.

WTF is the big deal if he played it on MAME or an upright? :confused::confused:


The article is suggesting he used a capability to start over repeatedly from better and better points and make it look like he played an actual game, whereas he might have cobbled it together from 100 starts.
 
At the risk of interrupting the internet love fest...

Anyone know how the image draw is effected when you put in a different monitor tech? Like substituting in an LCD or putting the feed through one of the converters?
 
The article is suggesting he used a capability to start over repeatedly from better and better points and make it look like he played an actual game, whereas he might have cobbled it together from 100 starts.

That's a possible explanation for the anomaly on his tape that's seen in King of Kong, i.e., stopping and re-starting the recording on the VCR at that spot.
 
That reminded me...In pixels they had to use mame instead of crt for it to record correctly. I remember they bought eze's defender inps to place on one of the machines
 
All of this stuff sucks really. Love or hate the 'names' in the classic gaming world like Billy they are the ones out there constantly keeping it in the public mind. They are the ones trying to make retrogaming relevant in a very public way and the community feels the need to tear that down. Negativity is rampant anymore, we need to get back to playing the games and enjoying them. Were the early days recordkeeping like the wild west? Of course it was, you don't need stephen hawking to figure that out.
 
All of this stuff sucks really. Love or hate the 'names' in the classic gaming world like Billy they are the ones out there constantly keeping it in the public mind. They are the ones trying to make retrogaming relevant in a very public way and the community feels the need to tear that down. Negativity is rampant anymore, we need to get back to playing the games and enjoying them. Were the early days recordkeeping like the wild west? Of course it was, you don't need stephen hawking to figure that out.

Agreed but I believe this is about the score submitted in 2010.
 
If TG as a brand wasn't worthless before, after the "king of home video games" was removed, it sure is now. No other player was more closely-attached to TG, and vice-versa. Mitchell was TG's "poster boy". I'll call it now - TG is dead. Doesn't matter how they handle this issue (spend another 6 months gathering evidence, have Ben Heck create another contraption....). The only way they can survive is to completely remake themselves - dump every score w/o real evidence to back it up, and change the name, to distance themselves from what's now known as the most corrupt video game organization.
 
Agreed but I believe this is about the score submitted in 2010.

Can't say I care. The whole movie King of Kong was a load of BS from start to finish, but it was entertaining, made household names of a bunch of gamers and restarted a much broader interest in retrogames. Without that, nobody on earth gives a darn about donkey kong, dragster or anything else for that matter except the likes of people on this forum. The number of events, contests, toys, games, arcades, barcades etc based upon classics has exploded in the last 10 years because of those that work hard to keep it alive. It pains me to see people from any aspect of the hobby tearing each other down usually driven by personal garbage. Just my 2 cents. Nothing good comes of this.
 
Looks like he's not going to get all the girls anymore.

WTF is the big deal if he played it on MAME or an upright? :confused::confused:

Because you can cheat if no one is watching you or if they are in on it.
 
Can't say I care. The whole movie King of Kong was a load of BS from start to finish, but it was entertaining, made household names of a bunch of gamers and restarted a much broader interest in retrogames. Without that, nobody on earth gives a darn about donkey kong, dragster or anything else for that matter except the likes of people on this forum. The number of events, contests, toys, games, arcades, barcades etc based upon classics has exploded in the last 10 years because of those that work hard to keep it alive. It pains me to see people from any aspect of the hobby tearing each other down usually driven by personal garbage. Just my 2 cents. Nothing good comes of this.

I hear you and agree. However, controversy also creates publicity. this won't be the end of Billy or TG and creates drama.

Now, everyone else, please continue having fun. It is an arcade score for crying out loud. It isn't like the russians just proved we were never on the moon.
 
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