WhatACrock

What a terrible article and lousy excuse for journalism. Do you guys bother to read press releases at all?

The basis for this idea is not because Billy Mitchell set his old Donkey Kong score there. It was because competitive video gaming started in that town. Twin Galaxies original arcade was in that town, as covered in several movies and, yep, in the press release. The old DK score that Billy set there back in the day was one of hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of World Record scores set by dozens and dozens and dozens of gamers.

Due to all of that back in the day, Ottumwa declared itself Video Game Capital of the World back then and the world went with it. On top of that, it was where Twin Galaxies, which is still going strong today, started. You simply call this "an Ottumwa arcade" somehow missing the idea totally.

In the future, before giving "coverage" to a story like this... try to get at least one fact in the mix. When you actually READ press releases and bother to search for even one crumb of information you discover things called FACTS that make for a good story.

Instead, your pathetic and irresponsible excuse for journalism now means that people think this is some King of Kong-fed Billy thing, and not a tribute to Twin Galaxies and all it started there 27 years ago.