The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Page #3

I was gonna to say international

But at the very least

national competitive gaming.

We just happen to call it Twin Galaxies.

The name burst in to my brain.

Walter Day didn't do that by accident

He didn't get lucky.

He created his own empire.

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I am Walter Day...

At the Twin Galaxies

international score board.

It's been a wearying thing

being the score keeper

Because everybody picks on me.

Because I am the man, you know?

I am a police officer.

Video games need a guy like Bush

who will say:

"Look, this is the way we're going to do it"

"This is the rule,

and if you don't like it, tough".

You got to have that.

If you didn't have it in the NFL,

Who would win?

How do you declare a champion

unless there are rules?

and if you break 'em, you lose.

The best features about him

are also his biggest downfall.

People can just run over him

because he is so nice.

Twin Galaxies survives

because people like Walter...

People like Robert Mruczek.

People like me...

Who participate all for a passion

of competitive gaming.

Nobody draws a paycheck.

I do not see details.

I see big pictures, you know?

I see the big concept

that lies behind the whole issue

and then I tweak that.

I can't do details and details.

Twin Galaxies needs a staff

of detail orientated people

like Robert Mruczek.

Anything that is unexplainable,

out of the ordinary...

We have to keep our eyes out for it.

that is not to say we are infallible.

When I have to watch that pile

of eight tapes over there

For Dwayne Richards'

two days Nibble performance...

that is 48 straight hours of

paying attention...

To make sure that he is doing

everything correctly.

Package from the Metroid team in Brazil...

Some Atari 2600 records.

I got to watch that.

These things take time to verify.

And I have to look at

every single one of these.

like I showed you over here.

This is just 200 video tapes.

That's nothing.

This is the real stuff that I have to do.

I see world records set in my room

just about every single day.

Some people think a world record is

what is set at the Olympics

Or at the end of a baseball season.

I see this every single day.

An not just sometimes once.

It's exciting.

Yeah, that was close.

That was actually good.

Derek, stop it. No.

Stop playing Donkey Kong.

- Derek?

- Stop playing Donkey Kong.

I'm gonna throw away your rest

if you don't stop it.

Somebody has accomplished something...

That not only I can't do...

But nobody else has ever done before...

And it's exciting

to see that first hand.

That's how you play Donkey Kong.

Welcome back.

Bill Gates is not necessarily

The most famous name

In Redmond tonight.

Coming up, meet the man

who is at the top of his game

A Donkey Kong world record.

He was a big celebrity

there for a bit in Seattle.

I just thought it would be a neat achievement.

I didn't think it would ever blow up to be a big story.

He was:
"You're the first lady

of Donkey Kong"

I'm like:
"Oh, my God!".

Even though it was this

silly video game thing

It's not many of us that have a buddy

Who is the best in the world at something.

That was a godsend to him

in the last couple of years

to get him through. It was like

a safe haven for him.

We are at

Kamakin Junior High...

We're in mine seventh and eight grade

science classroom

This is my first year of teaching...

And has been a challenge,

But very enjoyable so far.

I went to the City university...

Which had a program

for one year master's degree...

So we roughed it out for a year.

And here I am today, so it finally worked out.

It's fun and he's not making it so,

it's like:

"This is science. This is boring. "

He talk to us about stuff thats not just

like homework and schoolwork

and school 'n' stuff.

Well, here is...

My history with Donkey Kong

Is I have the world record.

Well, I did not know

it was a world record.

it's for Donkey Kong? Oh my...

There is like... It's...

All science teachers

here are weird.

Steve deserves a lot of credit for that...

because he also

also broke the record

of Donkey Kong Jr.

He took two of Billys titles

right away from him.

I don't mean to sound,

you know, crude or anything.

But he did, he did,

Officially, he did.

That was the last world record

that Bill ever had.

That was the last one to go.

He had five world records

in 1985...

And he had the Donkey Kong and then

Steve Wiebe took it away.

It is far more difficult when you are on top

anybody who's on top, to stay on top.

Billy's got a lot of things up his sleeve.

He likes to keep quiet

in situations like that.

So you know somebody

may have taken him down now

but behind closed doors

Billy has something planned.

That's Billy Mitchell.

On my phone it says:

"Never surrender. "

If someone beat his record...

He'd have a plan to beat it back.

I am sure.

The worst thing that could happen...

To give someone

the credibility of a score...

That doesn't deserve it.

But even far worse than that

would be to deny somebody

the credibility when they deserved it.

If I am not there, I don't know.

Get this.

I came home one day

And there was two people in my garage...

looking at my machine.

They wanted...

They were spies.

It was a Saturday in July or August.

My mom was here.

and I was getting ready to go to work.

These guys knocked on the door...

And I don't think I knew

they were going to be here at all.

They said who they were...

And they wanted to come in

and look at the machine.

I knew I had to leave and I said...

"I'm not comfortable in letting you do that"

"I have to go to work.

My mom is here. "

Steve is going to be home shortly.

You just need to wait.

To find out at an ultra elite level

whether or not a score is good.

Sometimes we had no choice

but to call in the pros.

Brian Kuh,

the Donkey Kong player

Went to Steve's place.

Bill asked me to do it.

But I had no time to go do it,

so Brian did it.

Went there with one of the

most respected gamers of all time,

Perry Rodgers to back him up.

Billy Mitchell and Twin Galaxies

asked me to

because I live in the area near him...

to go investigate him.

So we went out to his house.

I mean I'm the home owner. It's my house.

I am the wife of the Donkey Kong guy.

They should have respected my wishes...

And left my mom alone

and not come in, but they didn't.

They took apart his Donkey Kong machine

And started taking pictures of everything.

Trying looking for an excuse...

to try invalidate a score.

They saw this box

That has Roy Shildt's return address on it.

So they looked over and they said

"Roy Shildt?

Why is Roy Shildt's name on there?".

Roy Shildt is the type of gamer

that would like nothing more

than to see Twin Galaxies

get an egg on its face.

I want you to remember

that no punk bastard ever

Got a gnarly piece of poon tang.

By being sensitive and considerate.

He calls himself Mr. Awesome.

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