So I've always been called a gamer, mostly just because I love games, but my friends say I'm really good at them. Well needless to say, one of my favorite TV stations is G4TV. I was watching g4, and they are showing a movie called "the king of kong" in reference to the early 80's game "Donkey Kong" where you play as Mario and have to jump barrels, dodge fireballs, and duck under killer springs, to save the princess.
In 1982, a guy named Billy Mitchell scored over 800,000 points in donkey kong, a word record that stuck until early 2005, when Steve Wiebe Achieved a score of over 1,000,000. The judges at "www.twingalaxies.com" the foremost-leader of video game records, stated that because it was a video, they would have to check out his machine, to test it's legitamancy.
A man by the name of Roy Schildt went to the far ends of his career to give twin galaxies a bad name, due to an arguement about Roy's missile command score. Aparently, Roy has always had it "out for Billy" because of this arguement, and sent Steve a new chip, when Steve's board for his Donkey Kong game. The judges discovered this, and disqualified his game.
So, to make up for that "disgrace" Steve went down to their own studieo, where they have a rather large arcade, including several DK systems.
Well Steven sat down at one of their games, and started to play. As the day progressed, Steve not only got to the "Kill Stage" which for old video games is where the programming gets over-whelmed, and in one way or another messes up. They are considered the Final Board. In DK, your mario will just die, for no reason, after about 5 seconds of the level. In addition to the only person ever getting to the Kill Stage while in their arcade, and in addition to being the 3rd person to EVER get to the kill stage, he achieved a score of ~980000.
Lo' and Behold, one of the judges, at the moment of his victory, as everyone was congradulating him, the judge pulls out a copy of a vhs tape that Billy had sent in to them, upon hearing about Steve's attempt at beating their record. The tape, which had several glitches over the left side of the game (where the score is, mind you) showed the score moving sporatically up, and even past the 1,000,000 point mark. The judges, being friends of Billy's accepted his tape.
I type this, because people like this really upseat me. Why make a big deal about live-scores, and then assume you can just lay back and send in a taped score. The "movie" is still going, but as of this moment, I am out-raged at the fact that these judges might allow a great game player to be silenced, just because their hero was proven not to be the greatest.
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