The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Page #4

He drives the Awesome mobile

to fame and fortune...

As he says on his website.

He is jealous of Billy

Because Billy gets attention from beautiful

women wherever he goes.

Essentially, he wants to be like Billy.

I've seen the world champion

cherry pit spitter on the Tonight Show

with Jay Leno.

And if that guy should be

on the Tonight Show

At least I could just

be a celebrity for a day.

I didn't even get that.

I got no recognition at all.

I didn't get to be on any television show.

It's like I was a ghost...

And I just don't feel it's right.

I just want

a little recognition.

not necessarily to become a celebrity.

Hey, Billy. How you doin'?

- How you doin'?

- Billy, how are you?

I'm perfect. Haven't you read?

Twin Galaxies does a lot to

promote Billy.

Because it's very much

to Twin Galaxies advantage

And very much to the whole

gaming hobbies advantage

for Billy to become a star.

When Walter Day

published that book in 1997...

With all those egregious errors in there

Bill Mitchell saw it.

And he knew they were wrong.

He knew they were mistakes.

But he tried to pretend like

they were real...

To take my Missile Command

score down.

Roy and I met at California Extreme

And I knew that I had the capability

of beating Billy on Donkey Kong.

Steve Wiebe is the one who had unlocked the

secrets to Donkey Kong.

To figure out how to get a million points.

He offered to buy me a board,

a Donkey Kong board...

because mine had been broken.

I did not have the money.

So it was a mutual beneficial relationship.

He would buy me a board.

I would have the opportunity

to beat Billy's record.

And at the same time

I would take Billy down.

And seek Roy's revenge on Billy.

And it seemed good at the time, you know?

Unknowing to me, I didn't know the history

between the, bad blood, Roy and Billy.

To attempt something like this

for the sole purpose of

taking down one of Bill's scores

Is like... a slap in the face.

They would say that I somehow

monkeyed with the board or something...

But they wouldn't have any evidence.

They looked at the board,

they took pictures of the board,

and they couldn't find

anything wrong with it.

The fact that the right gummy substance

On the right chip, out of all these chips.

In the right spot

On the right board

I mean I have to say

there is a conspiracy here.

Any board that's worked on,

could have a problem.

To find out that this gamer potentially

Have a fraudulent score has upset Billy's

master plan for what he wanted to do.

I mean when you come home and see

two guys in your garage

And you know why, and you have learned why

they are there, you gotta stop

From a guy like Bill Mitchell,

I mean, you know...

Who has done crazy thing after crazy thing

After next crazy thing, you know?

Billy Mitchell

was one of the evaluators...

Which seems a little strange.

That the guy whose records Steve

is competing against

is deciding

whether or not Steve's records are valid.

Even if that board

is a completely legitimate board

Roy's taint on it is too strong.

"Roy Shildt's liar,

Roy Shildt's a cheater"

"Roy Shildt's full of crap,

Roy Shildt's out to get me"

"He's crazy, blah, blah, blah, blah. "

Well, he has threatened

Bill Mitchell physically.

Hey, in fact,

he has threatened Bill Mitchell's life.

No, I did not. I did not. I did not.

He threatened his own life

to make it look like me...

Because... For whatever...

To gain leverage...

With the other...

The other people, I don't know.

He figured

He knows that my Missile Command score

is genuine.

No matter what I say,

It draws controversy.

Sort of like the abortion issue.

If you're for it, you are a son of a gun.

If you are against it,

you are a son of a gun.

Eh, I am not God,

I don't have all the answers.

So I have to be careful

how I share my opinion.

Roy was just trying to help me out...

And I accepted his offer.

I just, you know... It was just too bad...

That association with him...

I never thought that would hurt me.

We couldn't accept

a pretender board, so to speak.

So we couldn't

accept the score.

I would encourage Steve

just to leave that board behind

Leave Roy behind and only play

on other Donkey Kong machines...

like the one at Funspot, for example.

To me most important is

you travel to a sanction

location like Funspot

Eh, that makes it official.

If tomorrow Tiger Woods goes

and golfs a 59, big deal.

If he does that in Augusta

that's where it counts.

He has never really

asserted himself in a way

that I think he should.

It's been just disappointed so many times

You just kind of like throw your hands up

and go

"Well, let's move on to the next thing. "

Everything would have fell right into place

But he forgot about one thing...

About me convincing Steve Wiebe

not to be a chump.

Talking him out of

chumpatizing himself.

I didn't think twice

about sending them to back east.

I was like:
"Absolutely, go kick some ass. "

Hello. My name is Justine Barker

And I am Miss Winnipesaukee.

I would like to welcome you to

the seventh annual

American Classic arcade museum

tournament at Funspot.

Funspot has become the best

recognized place world wide

For those who want to set

a world record on a classic game.

Funspot is the Mecca

Of the classic arcade games.

That place is awesome.

Funspot is the premiere place...

Where media comes and

mix with the superstars.

You don't see maybe a lot of DDG...

Which is rotten gorgeous

if you don't know, girls...

Who are playing the games.

The world's best players of classic games.

Are coming to do what they do best.

Play well.

Very recently, just a few months back...

I turned 30 and I retired...

And I moved here to New Hampshire.

And I live right close to Funspot.

I play games at Funspot every day now.

When I have 10 pieces of

well-done bacon

I'm gonna have four hardboiled eggs.

I'm going to have three pancakes...

And hopefully to play some great games.

Here, I am in my garage.

We're gonna give Billy Mitchell a call...

see if he's up to a challenge at Funspot.

Let's go ahead and dial him up.

Hi. You've reached Bill Mitchell.

I'm sorry I'm unable to take your call.

Please leave your name and phone number...

And I'll call you back as soon as possible.

Thanks.

I got a phone message.

Hello, Billy. This is Steve Wiebe.

Just calling to see how you are doing.

I'm hoping everything's OK with you.

I'm just seeing

what your plans are for Funspot.

I was, Walter Day invited me out there.

I was wondering if it be cool if we could

maybe, have a kind of

friendly competition thing.

I help a lot of people

who want to go to contest.

When I look at different people

who are my favorites.

Who'd I wanna help,

she is at the top of the list.

- Surprise.

- Oh, my god.

And at the right age of 80,

She's gonna go to Funspot...

And she's going

to set a world record on Q'bert

Okay.

- That's the challenge.

- Oh, right.

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