the king of kong

[daryn]

not sure if you were asking me, but i went to the cambridge, mass. theater

[KJS]

Was asking Badger if he knew the people associated with the film because he went to high school with Steve Wiebe and the producers. One of my buddies did that is why.

KJS

[Phresh]

-I thought the movie was awesome.
-The unintentional humor was very funny. "I never surrender. I even have it on my phone. See. *pulls out crappy phone*"
-I really thought Billy looked like a caveman. I kept thinking this during the movie. And then it showed him walking on the airport floor belt thing and I started laughing hysterically.
-The movie made it really easy to love Steve and hate Billy, but both guys reinforced these feelings throughout the movie. <font color="white">I thought it was awesome that Steve kept coming out and proving himself in public when Billy wouldn't. I thought it was cheap how Billy sent in a tape, which they accepted, even though they originally denied Steve's score on a different machine.</font> Also, that was incredibly lame how Billy snubbed Steve and said he couldn't talk to him. What a [censored].

A+, would watch again.

[nath]

Yeah, just saw it a few days ago. Really enjoyed it, found it really funny... man, those guys are weird.

[Duke]

I'm taking my girlfriend to see this tonight, so I'll chime in with my thoughts after that.

Last week we were up in Santa Cruz and on the boardwalk they have a ton of old arcade games. We played some of everything, including Donkey Kong. I sucked big time (it's been a lot of years), but I still contend that Arkanoid is far more difficult. Then again, that came out later.

I could easily beat Arkanoid on my Apple IIe with a mouse back in the day, but that spinning controller (though intuitive) is tough to use. I never liked the ball on Centipede either.

Like, yeah the average game of Donkey Kong is less than a minute. The average ball on arkanoid must last about 4 seconds.

[Phresh]

Is this correct?

<font color="white">-Billy holds the record for 20+ years at around 800k or something.
-Steve beats the record by a lot, but they don't count it for whatever reason.
-Steve sets the record live, at Funspot, and achieves the first live Kill Screen.
-Billy's little friend plays an old video that Billy has been hanging onto for a while that shows him getting an even higher score, they count it, and Billy has the record once again.
-At the end, Steve beats Billy's top score and is recrowned the champion.
-Epilogue: Billy once again reclaims the title with a new score.</font>

Is this accurate?

[Fedorfan]

I saw King of kong the other night, it was surprisingly funny, and entertaining.

[TomCollins]

Yes

[MEbenhoe]

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Also, that was incredibly lame how Billy snubbed Steve and said he couldn't talk to him. What a [censored].


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<font color="white"> Reality of this situation is that Billy actually had lunch one on one with Steve earlier that day. The movie in that part is actually cut quite cleverly. When Steve says hi to Billy, Billy actually in reality said hi back and stopped and watched Steve play for a couple minutes. After that Billy walked away and said he couldn't be seen to be spending too much time with certain people, meaning actually that as competition he shouldn't be seen watching Steve play for too long or he could be accused of stealing tricks from Steve. Just one example of how the movie was cleverly edited. </font>

[MEbenhoe]

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Is this correct?

<font color="white">-Billy holds the record for 20+ years at around 800k or something.

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No, Billy's record was actually broken by Timothy Sczerby in 2001 before Steve even started his quest.


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-Steve beats the record by a lot, but they don't count it for whatever reason.

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Yes, this is true because there were questions about the board Steve performed it on. A legitimate reason that many other records have been disallowed as well. Steve was then given the record when he broke it in person at Funspot.

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-Steve sets the record live, at Funspot, and achieves the first live Kill Screen.

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Steve did set the record at Funspot, but this was not the first live kill screen.

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-Billy's little friend plays an old video that Billy has been hanging onto for a while that shows him getting an even higher score, they count it, and Billy has the record once again.

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Yes, the record was instated based on the video tape, apparently surprisingly at the urging of the producers of King of Kong. Possibly they wanted to create more controversy for their movie? However, it was pulled two days later until Billy set in the master copy of the tape that had none of the questionable nature's about it that the copied version had.

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-At the end, Steve beats Billy's top score and is recrowned the champion.

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Yes, this is true and this score has been accepted by all including Billy as being legitimate.

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-Epilogue: Billy once again reclaims the title with a new score.



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Yes, Billy broke the record live at some convention with referees on hand and with the board coming sealed and authenticated directly from Nintendo.
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