the king of kong
anyone check this out? i guess it's not in a lot of theaters right now. it's this documentary about this guy billy mitchell, the guy who did the first perfect game of pac man. he got this incredible donkey kong high score back in the 80's and he's been bragging about it ever since basically. the documentary follows this guy steve from cali who is trying to break his high score. .it's pretty good. you end up rooting for this steve guy more than you've rooted for anyone in your life. it's ends up being like a real good vs. evil thing.
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That was awesome. I had no idea NES Tetris was still such a huge thing.
I had to quit playing Tetris way back in the day because I couldn't stop seeing blocks in my dreams and anytime I closed my eyes. I can't imagine what these kids go through.
I saw that on the YouTube or something and wasn't sure if it was legit or not. Man, that's ****ing awesome. What a great accomplishment and memory for that little dude.
Wouldn't it be hilarious of Big Bad Bill Mitchell uploaded an obviously fraudulent MAME version of him setting this record already with poorly spliced together footage from different games. He always has a plan.
He sells his hot sauce, he sells himself.
I knew about the rolling technique getting popular. Are there any other late developments on technique that changed gameplay like this?
Thought this bump would have been about Billy's ongoing comedy legal issues rather than about Tetris lol
Combination of Joseph winning the CTWC + boom tetris for jeff meme causing lots of younger, newer players to get involved and tap (pretty much the only tapper prior to him was Koryan, who's older than I am), pandemic giving lots of people lots of time to practice and then Cheez breaking the game with rolling caused things to explode. It's probably already peaked and most of the competitive scene's modded the game to either stop it after level 39 or to double the speed again, so it's actually fairly rare to see someone like BS actually go for score/level records
If Karl Jobst is to be believed (and I think he probably is), Billy Mitchell and/or his attorney may end up eating sanctions for what they've been pulling in depositions and in filings.
So it turns out one of Twin Galaxies' lawyers caused some issues, so TG settled with Mitchell.
TG created a separate historical archive of scores, and threw Mitchell on that. Mitchell naturally is claiming he won, and got back on the leaderboards, which he didn't.
But the Mitchell/Jobst lawsuit is still ongoing, apparently.
