
According to 1UP, Steve Wiebe will be taking another shot at toppling Billy Mitchell’s record high score in Donkey Kong during this year’s E3 on June 2nd. It will be nationally televised live on G4, and Twin Galaxies, the official high score record keepers for popular arcade games like Donkey Kong, will supply the arcade machine that Steve Wiebe will be playing on and will be presiding over the event.
Steve Wiebe and Billly Mitchell were featured in the 2007 critically acclaimed documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Wiebe was the first player to achieve a score of over a million points, but before that, his record making attempts were alleged to have been repeatedly sabotaged by Mitchell and his cohorts. On July 26, 2007, Mitchell played Donkey Kong in public and broke Weibe’s record with a score of 1,050,200.
Since then, Wiebe has attempted to best Mitchell’s score a total of four times without success.
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is accused of inaccurately relating the events surrounding the feud between Wiebe and Mitchell. According to Mitchell, the director of the documentary, Seth Gordon, selected to unfairly turn him into the film’s villian for the sake of a compelling, sellable narrative.
"You don’t criminalize people and call it real." said Mitchell. "You don’t do that for the sake of a dollar."
"The movie makes it look like Twin Galaxies generally-and Billy specifically-are trying to take Steve down," said Steve Sanders, a friend of Mitchell. "Unfortunately, the movie leaves so much out about Billy that audiences tend to believe that the Billy Mitchell they see on the screen is him, and it’s not. Billy is a great guy."













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