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A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong.
In 1982, LIFE Magazine assembled the world's greatest gamers for a photo shoot that would become the center spread of their 1982 Year-In-Photos edition. Billy Mitchell, who would later be named the "Gamer of the Century," was one of the invitees.
Mitchell, the World Record holder on Centipede, had been tracking the score on Donkey Kong, and knew he could take that title as well. In front of the 20 best gamers in the world, Billy scored 874,300 po
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Views: 221
Embeds: 118
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
A middle-school science teacher and a hot sauce mogul vie for the Guinness World Record on the arcade classic, Donkey Kong.In 1982, LIFE Magazine assembled the world's greatest gamers for a photo shoot that would become the center spread of their 1982 Year-In-Photos edition. Billy Mitchell, who would later be named the "Gamer of the Century," was one of the invitees.
Mitchell, the World Record holder on Centipede, had been tracking the score on Donkey Kong, and knew he could take that title as well. In front of the 20 best gamers in the world, Billy scored 874,300 po
Tags: picturehouse, documentary
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Partial Film Information
Director: Seth Gordon
Writer: Not Available
Studio: Picturehouse
Cast: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day
Release: August 17, 2007
Writer: Not Available
Studio: Picturehouse
Cast: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day
Release: August 17, 2007
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