Steve Wiebe to go for Donkey Kong hi-score at E3

I hope he gets it.

That pic was from the AllGames event at E for all. Funny that G4 only uses Scot Rubin's ideas 5 years after he leaves!

Does anyone actually like Billy Mitchell after seeing that movie?..........or ever hearing him speak?


......or ever even seeing him?

I really wanted to see King of Kong but I never got around to it (I'm not even sure it came out here in the UK). Anyone care to tell me if it's worth tracking down?

Didn't he beat him on video and live? I thought there was text on screen at the end that said that.

Also, I severely disliked Billy Mitchell by the end of that movie. I hope to never see him again.

E3 2009...
Miyamoto is on the stage and about to reveal a new instalment of Zelda on the Wii, when that weird 30-year old retired guy from the "King of Kong" movie suddenly walks up to him.

- Hey, I don't want to interrupt you guys but we've got a potential Donkey Kong kill screen coming up in a minute.

Haha, that would be great.

While Billy Mitchell certainly makes himself look like an ass, the King of Kong documentary heavily biased against him. The Twin Galaxies forum has a section dedicated to this movie and they explain a lot of things. I liked the movie and think Mitchell is quite the douche, but as with many documentaries, doesn't tell the whole story.

http://forums.twingalaxies.com/viewforum.php?f=86&sid=669d46660d88bbc4b7b421b5bfc1804e

Hope he gets it, but he hasn't gotten anywhere close in his previous three public attempts.

You mean Chump.. Fully Chumpatized.

For those of you interested, King of Kong is available on Netflix in the "Watch Instantly" section. Prepare to be ashamed of your hobby!

Good luck Wiebe, I fully except the movie's premise that you are the Luke Skywalker to Billy Mitchell's Darth Vader.

I watched King of Kong with my girlfriend. Her first words while watching it were (about Billy): "Is that really his hair?"

I don't care how slanted the movie was, Billy Mitchell is a douche and Steve Wiebe seems like more of a normal guy. I hope Steve kicks some A.

GO STEVE!

Slanted or no, as it's been said earlier, the video tape submission debacle was just uncool.

Good luck Steve I'll be watching =)

Billy Mitchell's mullet+goatee+american flag tie combo supersedes any plot devices, real or manufactured. He is a fanny pack wearing, hot sauce peddling goon.

Go Steve!

Billy seems like the kind of man that feeds on negative comments.... so I'll leave it at that.

All this just reminds me that people who become too obsessed with being the best at a single game are seriously missing out. Being able to sit around for days on end trying to get a perfect score in Pacman or being number 1 in Donkey Kong isn't something to be proud of (much less egotistical over), it's a serious sign of being neurotic. There is so much other stuff to be done, both inside and outside of the video game world.

Oh so after Mitchel see's himself on film and realizes he is such a doushebag, he says he is portrayed wrong? He dissed Wiebe on camera at the arcade with his wife

How does Wiebe know he can beat the high score on that DK Machine? Let's say for example he makes it to the kill screen. The Kill screen is random. So he could be at 995,000 and the kill screen decides to kick in, unless he's staying longer in stages and jumping more barrels, to be at a higher score before the kill screen happens?

I'll go there just to get Steve's autograph. Not because he's good at Donkey Kong, but because he's a nice guy who put up with the crap Billy and Walter threw at him and didn't give up.

But I gotta add one thing. I was 13 when DK came out, so obviously I was a huge fan of all those early 80's arcade games. However it kind of embarrasses me that people would care any more who currently holds the DK high score record than they would care who holds the high score at Mattel handheld football or who can best sing an Aldo Nova song. Time moves on and we of the early 80's video game generation don't stay young by pretending nothing came after the stuff we loved as kids. I hope Steve Wiebe retires from Donkey Kong and starts playing Braid.

You can say all this crap about things being slanted all you want.

Billy Mitchell is a douche, and I've been saying this years before the movie was even made.

It's time this corruption STOPS here is a word from the real king of kong this is an official message not propoganda either.


Hi ****
I don't think theres anything we can do.
I'm not familiar with the circumstances of your history with TG, but judging from my own, I can see how one can easily get screwed over in the name of politics and/or profit.
I actually have a copy of the game I played 9 years ago that was the "real" one that beat Billy's long standing record from the 80's.....NOT Webie. The whole KoK thing is built starting from a purposely manufactured lie.
I made 2 copies, one I sent to TG, the other I kept for myself....THAT I STILL HAVE.
Dwayne Richards and a few other notable people have seen this video from 9 years ago and agree theres no disputing it, it was all legit,
Seth Gordan intentionally lied. I was screwed out of my right full place in KoK.
I can't tell you how angry I am that an accomplishment I originaly did was simply taken away from me with intentional lies, handed over to someone else (they purposely lied to do it) so they could all profit! NOW THERE'S A MOTION PICTURE IN THE WORKS?! I got zero!
I'm the one who first actually beat Billys long standing score, can prove it and they hand it to Webie and B.S. the public with a so-called ..."documentary"?
Trying to explain the truth about the whole KoK thing to the general public is like trying to explain quantum physics to a taylors dummy. No one wants to hear it even though you can back up your argument with truth and videotape.
The public actually thinks KoK is a real life,real events documentary.
Both these Film people and TG now have a lot of $$$ tied up in the KoK sham.

Another game has been wronged as well see his you tube pages

http://www.youtube.com/user/trtomkitinholloywood

and petition http://www.thepetitionsite.com/11/the-right-to-play-twin-galaxies

Twingalaxies will try to cover it up but it's ALL true

Haha, I had to watch King of Kong in class. Although it is biased, I agree with everyone else that Billy Mitchell is a douche, and if I saw him in real life, I'd probably punch him.

Good Luck Wiebe!