King of Kong (video game film/documentary)
Has anyone seen The King of Kong? It's a film/documentary about the battle to be the best player at the arcade game Donkey Kong.
It's interesting, except that it does no favours for the childish image of computer gaming, since one of the blokes is a total saddo, with an ego bigger than Charlotte Church's. He holds, or held, the high scores for a couple of arcade games, and thinks he's some sort of god. Although to be fair, the way his pathetic "fans" worship him, it's perhaps not so surprising that he's so obnoxiously conceited. He says things like:
"No matter what what I say, it draws controversy. It's sort of like the abortion issue"
"Well, maybe they'd like it if I lose. I gotta try losing sometime"
There was loads more, but I can't remember.
And the way those saddos there worship him is beyond embarressing. Someone said, for example, "Bill Mitchell is the closest gamer to being a Jedi".
And Twin Galaxies, the self proclaimed judge of all things videogames, who are supposedly unbiased, allow him to judge the authenticity of the scores of people who compete against him.... Maybe he is unbiased, but given his ego I think it's fairly safe to say that he has bias coming out of his ears.
And Twin Galaxies supposedly only allows scores that are proven, yet they accept Bill Mitchell's scores on a (dodgy) video tape, which could be messed about with. This is the same Twin Galaxies that includes Billy Mitchell as a judge, of course.
And the way both Twin Galaxies and Billy Mitchell treated the challenger, Steve Wiebe, was appalling. True, perhaps the film was deliberately edited to make TG and BM look bad (if so they succeeded magnificently), but if that's the case then why haven't TG and BM sued?
It's interesting, except that it does no favours for the childish image of computer gaming, since one of the blokes is a total saddo, with an ego bigger than Charlotte Church's. He holds, or held, the high scores for a couple of arcade games, and thinks he's some sort of god. Although to be fair, the way his pathetic "fans" worship him, it's perhaps not so surprising that he's so obnoxiously conceited. He says things like:
"No matter what what I say, it draws controversy. It's sort of like the abortion issue"
"Well, maybe they'd like it if I lose. I gotta try losing sometime"
There was loads more, but I can't remember.
And the way those saddos there worship him is beyond embarressing. Someone said, for example, "Bill Mitchell is the closest gamer to being a Jedi".
And Twin Galaxies, the self proclaimed judge of all things videogames, who are supposedly unbiased, allow him to judge the authenticity of the scores of people who compete against him.... Maybe he is unbiased, but given his ego I think it's fairly safe to say that he has bias coming out of his ears.
And Twin Galaxies supposedly only allows scores that are proven, yet they accept Bill Mitchell's scores on a (dodgy) video tape, which could be messed about with. This is the same Twin Galaxies that includes Billy Mitchell as a judge, of course.
And the way both Twin Galaxies and Billy Mitchell treated the challenger, Steve Wiebe, was appalling. True, perhaps the film was deliberately edited to make TG and BM look bad (if so they succeeded magnificently), but if that's the case then why haven't TG and BM sued?
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here you go
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/showthread.php?t=19746&highlight=king+kong
... "I wanted the attention, I wanted the fame, I wanted the glory, I wanted all the pretty girls to come to me and say, "Hey, I notice that you're really great at Centipede"!!"
Quality!! :grin:
The one really fat guy whos 100% a virgin, the one who has a huge pile of video tapes to go through to check for records, i thought he was quite shocking.
I wont ruin the ending for people but its a decent watch, not something i would want to keep watching.
Thought its quite bad of the father to constantly play Donkey Kong when his kids were basically wanting attention and being ignored.
Saw Billy Mitchell at the Retro show a few years back, seemed an alright bloke, just a bit weird hair ! But thought he came across bad in that film though.
Good to watch once though
Let me know what you think about it once you watch it. Good fascinating film but like i say i wouldnt exactly watch it again. To be fair i would have waited for the proper UK release but never realised it was coming out until last months Retro Gamer.
I downloaded it ages ago as i thought it was going to be US only
those people sound like proper sad bastards. ooo look at me i got the high score from some ancient video game, ooo check out my arthritis and my pink eyes, im special, i shit into a nappie and eat food from a tube. look at my pale face and my lank greasy hair, look at my certificate from a website aren't i clever.
no your not, you are a spaz.
Yeah. As I've mentioned on another thread, Xbox Live is full of them at the moment, sad gits who think that they've got some kind of high social status and command respect because they've got a few more Xbox Acheivements than you and a higher gamerscore, and they take great delight in constantly telling you so. All it proves is that they waste their money on shite games and don't get out enough :lol:
the only true measure of a man is how many girls he's nobed.
And your post count on WOS
and how big your balls are.
And your knowledge of Spectrum Video RAM
and how many illegitimate kids you have.
And your knowledge of metal bridges on the Ohio river
and how many times you have watched die hard
and how many times you've been crab fishing
and how many times you have caught crabs
and how many times you've had the umbrella scrape.
It's well within the 2 page quota good sir :D
yeah come on mate, try to stay on topic.
I was on topic, with the off-topic :D
Are you Elite?
Did anyone try his spicy sauces?
Have you seen the dvd or film ? Perhaps he came across okay with you that one time but i thought in the dvd seeing him hardly acknowledge the other guy etc, seem to not believe the other score and then sending in that dodgy tape of him setting the record was a bit bad. Thought Billy Mitchell came across very badly in the dvd.
i always think billy mitchell was a bit of a weed, but he managed to marry honey, as she is pretty sexy.
All this talk though about highscores and big headedness....dear me if its true then what a bunch of saddos...
Wooo! I got the high score on a 30yr old arcade game :roll:
Ha ha , hey how can we talk ! Playing 25 year old Speccy games etc !!
speak for your self. i only play games from the 90's.
I think only Daren has done that :lol: