New leak prove Billy Mitchell is a fraud!?!?

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Hahahahahaha! That was me.

Behold!
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Hahahaha...awesome. I still can't rep you....but I would if I could.

But I gotta admit I'm slightly dissapointed.....I thought I remembered he had American flag shoes on. Ha

If only you heard DK Mario's death sound coming from the stall next to you every 15 seconds or so....that would have made that moment just a bit better.
 
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Hahahaha...awesome. I still can't rep you....but I would if I could.

But I gotta admit I'm slightly dissapointed.....I thought I remembered he had American flag shoes on. Ha

If only you heard DK Mario's death sound coming from the stall next to you every 15 seconds or so....that would have made that moment just a bit better.


Crushing barrels with a legend!

It was definitely him. We, uh, finished at the same time and I got visual confirmation as we washed our hands.

I've met Billy a few times, and he's never been anything but super nice.

Walter Day is unbelievably kind, and an encyclopedia of knowledge on tons of subjects. He and I had a really fun conversation about horror movies a few years back.

I was in Banning the night the Cardinals eliminated the Packers, and bumped into Walter at Arcade Expo right after getting back to the arcade. He made it even more fun:

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Crushing barrels with a legend!

It was definitely him. We, uh, finished at the same time and I got visual confirmation as we washed our hands.

I've met Billy a few times, and he's never been anything but super nice.

Walter Day is unbelievably kind, and an encyclopedia of knowledge on tons of subjects. He and I had a really fun conversation about horror movies a few years back.

I was in Banning the night the Cardinals eliminated the Packers, and bumped into Walter at Arcade Expo right after getting back to the arcade. He made it even more fun:

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Rock on
#legit
 
ok you changed my opinion of him i always thought he sounded like a real self absorbed jerk
but if people who actually met him are backing him up
then i guess he can't be all that bad

but really the hole toilet thing kinda to much info there.
 
Best Dookey Kong player this side of the Mississippi.

His poo smells like a mixture of success and winning.
 
ok you changed my opinion of him i always thought he sounded like a real self absorbed jerk
but if people who actually met him are backing him up
then i guess he can't be all that bad

but really the hole toilet thing kinda to much info there.

Perception defines our reality. Saying Billy is a prick just from seeing him in KoK is like saying Mike Mizanin is a prick because of The Miz in WWE. Maybe it's because I'm a long time wrestling fan, but I could tell that Billy's "pompous ass" persona was(as they call it in the wrestling biz) "a work".
 
Perception defines our reality. Saying Billy is a prick just from seeing him in KoK is like saying Mike Mizanin is a prick because of The Miz in WWE. Maybe it's because I'm a long time wrestling fan, but I could tell that Billy's "pompous ass" persona was(as they call it in the wrestling biz) "a work".



The Rock tells an interesting story about the first time he stepped into ring and experimented with inciting the crowd which electrified his career. This was the only reference I could find on google.


Amazingly, the crowd hated him. His 'nice guy' charade wasn't working and he was being consistently boo-ed. Chants of "Rocky sucks" resounded in his ears at every match, and he soon realized that his inauthentic persona wasn't fooling anyone.

When he next stepped into the ring, Dwayne reinvented himself as the bad guy. In this moment, 'The Rock' was born. Soon enough he was the hottest fighter in the WWE.
 
The Rock tells an interesting story about the first time he stepped into ring and experimented with inciting the crowd which electrified his career. This was the only reference I could find on google.


Amazingly, the crowd hated him. His 'nice guy' charade wasn't working and he was being consistently boo-ed. Chants of "Rocky sucks" resounded in his ears at every match, and he soon realized that his inauthentic persona wasn't fooling anyone.

When he next stepped into the ring, Dwayne reinvented himself as the bad guy. In this moment, 'The Rock' was born. Soon enough he was the hottest fighter in the WWE.

I remember that well. As Chris Jericho likes to say, "The best wrestling 'character' is your own personality turned up to 11."

The Rock(as Rocky Maivia) didn't work, because, as nice of a guy as he really is, it was (as Star Wars fans say these days) "Mary Sue". He was being called "Blue Chipper", and effectively being treated by the announce team, like God's Gift. He was greener than goose shit at the time, so the audience wasn't buying it. Most of those guys go through a similar experience, until they find what works for them.

It's a matter of growing, learning your craft, and figuring out how to connect with the audience. Of course, they, unlike screen actors, have a live audience to get instant feedback from. That can be a double edged sword, too. If you "lose" the audience real quick, your career could end before it really begins.

Billy seems to me like a natural salesman, and the thing he's best at selling, is himself. That's not necessarily a bad thing. From what I've seen of him at actual live events, he's on the jovial side, and enjoys the spotlight. But not so much that he's trying to steal it from others... which is what the antagonist from King of Kong did.
 
Best Dookey Kong player this side of the Mississippi.

His poo smells like a mixture of success and winning.

Im sure he would say that is perfect also, never once bought toilet paper or had to wipe.... ever.
 
Billy seems to me like a natural salesman, and the thing he's best at selling, is himself. That's not necessarily a bad thing. From what I've seen of him at actual live events, he's on the jovial side, and enjoys the spotlight. But not so much that he's trying to steal it from others... which is what the antagonist from King of Kong did.


What gets lost in translation is the implied humor.

Last fall at an arcade party we were in back room talking about family stuff.

I said someone on fb would get a kick out of hearing from him. So he thought of a soundbyte told me how to video him and we made a 30sec bit of fun where he uses his name in 3rd person.

The guys on the fb group lit up about it. He has it down to a science.
 
Bill is also the former WR holder on Centipede, which IMO is the one that is actually really impressive. With Centipede you get a max of six extra lives in storage, very high speed game play, and no break whatsoever.

I don't think I agree with you on this. Have you seen Billy play a Centipede marathon? There is a technique that can be used that once set up, all you need to do is not move at all and hold down the fire button. Unstopable, unbeatable, the only way to lose is physically fall asleep from exhaustion. Once set up no skill required.

However, that is not to slight his game play on Centipede. It takes some amazing skill to set up this scenario. But once you do have it set up, heck, he could just put a five pound weight on the fire button and let it go until the game breaks.
 
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That is actually correct on centipede. Back in the tg arcade days spider hunting and trapping the centipede in a mushroom wall was considered skill. He doesn't know how to play centipede straight up.

You would have to look toward names like ben gold or eric ginner or modern day Don Hayes for real players.

To be clear Billy has a fixation thing with numbers and patterns. As such he is good at patternesque games...donkey kong, dkj, burgertime, pac, ms pac....all clear repetition mini patterns.

He and walter seem to enjoy wizard of wor doubles but that is also a pattern.

Walter is a very skilled centipede player even nowadays at events.
 
PS- Here is another bit of content to help you guys get a better context on TG circa Jan 1983.

Scroll down the list and you'll see the games selected for TG's most "infamous" tournament and the actual scoring breakdown of the top players who Walter had befriended at that point in time. These were the top players who were willing to drive to Ottumwa in January. I don't remember why Billy didn't compete other than likely he wasn't versed at most of the game selection?

The astute reader will notice the "media grab," too, of having Steve J. involved since he was the one who helped kick off the pop culture of high scores in arcades via his picture in the Jan 1982 Time magazine article.

http://www.robotron2084guidebook.com/defender/history/videogiochimagazine/
 
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Thanks to this thread, I'm gonna go watch "A Fist Full Of Quarters" now...

:D
 
i agree with many others here that billy was the first and that his own recollection in regards to competing against the canadian for the perfect game are true. There is a great video of billy talking about and playing pacman. It takes about five minutes to tell he is obviously one of if not the most knowledgeable people on the topic. Watching him describe how to get through some of the broken stages is simply incredible. And as a few people have already mentioned, he stepped away from serious game play/ record setting or defending for almost 10 years. Its amazing how much crap has been getting tossed on the OG's of arcade gaming. sure there is always going to be people making shit up and trying to stay in the spotlight or ride a wave of popularity but if we were to take in everything being said about these classic gamers then they would all be liars, thieves, and most of all suck at there proposed classic games.

Rock on BILLY MITCHELL!!!
Thanks
Blake
 
i couldnt bother to read 6 pages but do people really get butt hurt over who has the higher score and who got it first more than enjoy the game yourselves?
i mean i enjoy the competition on trying to have the high score but at this point it seems a bit ..... well ill just leave it at that.
 
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