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There'll always be
the argument

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that video games
are meant to be played for fun.

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Believe me,
some of it's a lot of fun.

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Video games are meant
to be played at home,

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relaxing on a couch
amongst friends.

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And they are, and that's fun.

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But competitive gaming,

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when you wanna attach
your name to a world record,

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when you want your name
written into history,
you have to pay the price.

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With this, it's just
like me and the machine.

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I can... it doesn't matter if you,
you know... if you let me down

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or someone else,
it doesn't come through.

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I can always go out there.
I'm in control.

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Man: And I'm glad
you touch on this.

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Do we have enough tape?
This is important.

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Everybody, even grandma,

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games... meaning checkers, cards,
if not now, in the past.

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Show me even
a freakin' nun or a hermit

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who hasn't done cards
or checkers.

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I don't drink. I don't smoke.
I don't do drugs.

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I play video games,

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which I think
is far superior an addiction
than any of those other ones.

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I wanted to be a hero.

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I wanted to be the center
of attention.

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I wanted the glory.
I wanted the fame.

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I wanted the pretty girls
come at me and say,

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"hi. I see that you're good
at centipede."

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I had somebody draw
an analogy for me once
that I always remembered.

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The top French pilot
in world war I
shot down 24 enemy planes.

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The top American pilot...
You don't know his name, do you?

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Nobody does.
But it's Eddie rickenbacker.

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Shot down 26 enemy planes.

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The German ace, the red baron.

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Everyone knows
who the red baron is.

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That's 'cause he shot down
87 enemy planes.

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I mean, he was the best.

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There's just... there's a level
of difference between people,

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and it translates
into some games.

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Donkey Kong and pac-man
and miss pac-man

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and galaga and defender,

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these are the games
that caught the public eye.

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These are the games
people cared about.

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And so if you wanna be known
as being world-class,

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you've gotta master
one of those games.

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I like the simplicity of it,
and that's what
you'll probably hear

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from a lot of people
that like retro games

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is that it's the simplicity.

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Those games challenge
eye-hand coordination,

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mind-body coordination,
fast reaction time,

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and comprehensive thinking,

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on a level
that modern games don't.

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Memorization and
pattern recognition is key.

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Because for you
to get a single point further

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in an old game
from the early eighties

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meant a tremendous increase
of skill.

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If you do not know
the next pattern coming up

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in a tron light-cycle event,
you will lose your life.

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Day: Only the die-hards
who, for some reason,

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really love those games,
continue to stick with them.

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But what we've done is had the
mayor tie off the entire street

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so that lifemagazine
could come to town

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and photograph the world's
greatest video game players,

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who've been flown in
especially for this
lifephotographic session.

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All these great superstars
are coming from north Carolina,

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California, Canada,
many other places,

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to be photographed
as the official world champions

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on many different games.

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Steve Sanders:
That was the first time
two world-class players

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went head-to-head for
a competition was lifemagazine.

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Mitchell:
Without a doubt, I met players

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that were amongst the best
in the world

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and maybe even would say
or do whatever they could

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to make people believe
they were the best in the world.

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Day: Well, at that time,

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he was the world record holder
on centipede.

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But also at that time,

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he was the world record holder
on donkey Kong.

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But we didn't know that,
because someone else

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was invited there
from Kansas City

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who, because of a claim
they had made,

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it was presumed that they
were the donkey Kong champion.

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Donkey Kong was the one
that I first lied about.

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But he had submitted
a bogus score,

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and I finally met him there
at lifemagazine,

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and I finally sat down
to play him.

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Sanders: We had not been there
long, and bill said,

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"come on. Let's play."

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Mitchell: I went in the arcade
and sat down with donkey Kong,

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and I beat him to a pulp.

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Well, I was better
than the best.

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And I got...
I got 200,000 against bill.

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Bill got 800,000
on his first man in that game.

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He shellacked me.
He shellacked me.

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Mitchell:
Basically, he walked away
with his head down and humbled,

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and that brought him
to the truth.

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And from there,
we worked together.

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Well, the Bible...
Proverbssays,

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"as iron sharpens iron,
so one man sharpens another."

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Bill made me a better person,

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and did so by basically making
me [chuckles] confess.

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Mitchell:
I've pointed out to Steve
that he's the person he is today

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because he came under the wrath
of bill Mitchell.

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In front of the 19 top players
in the nation,

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actually North America,

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he did the highest
donkey Kong score possible

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and also found out that the game
ends on the 22nd board.

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Since, I so-called
debuted on the scene

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at lifemagazine in 1982,

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there hasn't been anybody
who's played even close.

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Man 1: When Billy Mitchell
walks into an arcade,

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you know, everything stops.

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There's electricity
around Billy Mitchell.

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Everybody wants
to crowd around him.

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Everybody wants to see him.

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Man 2: You know, everything
about him is perfect, you know?

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Billy is just that person.
You know, he wants to represent.

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If you could hack
into the machine

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and program it to play itself,

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you couldn't
even program it that well.

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Day: There's a glamour to Billy.
There's a specialness to Billy.

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He was the first. He was
the first great, great player.

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The fact of the matter is,

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bill is thebest classic
arcade gamer of our era.

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It's actually carved
a part of my personality

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that benefits me every day.

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I mean, a burning passion
never to settle for what I have

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in my business, in my family.

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That's what competitive gaming
has done for me.

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He's a winner. Billy Mitchell
is absolutely a winner.

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Mitchell: It's sort of like
being in a maze,

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but everything you see
is actually sauce.

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The all-around
most-seasoned person

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in the hot sauce/chicken wing
industry... yeah, for sure, me.

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There's a production end of it.
There's the preparation.

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When there's the sales
end of it,

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there's not somebody
who encompasses

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all of those areas like me
that I've ever met.

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He sells his hot sauce,
he sells himself.

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Day: Because he's so charming
and such a good ambassador

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for all gaming
because he's positive,

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there's no reason,
in my opinion,

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why Billy Mitchell couldn't end
up on a wheaties box someday.

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The video arcade classic
has finally been conquered.

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On July 4,
at a New Hampshire arcade,

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34-year-old Billy Mitchell
became the first person

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to master pac-man by recording
the first ever perfect game.

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♪ Billy Mitchell
primo joystick dude ♪

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♪ amazing in the maze,
he ain't gonna lose ♪

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To get through every board,
getting every dot,

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every energizer,
every ghost that's applicable,

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to reach to the final 256th
screen without dying?

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That's... it's impressive
in its own right.

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The success of this
was not just because

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someone got
a perfect pac-man score,

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but because Billy Mitchell
got a perfect pac-man score.

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♪ Blue man in the corridor
singing the blues ♪

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♪ a perfect game goes down ♪

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♪ Billy's on the move ♪

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If I have all this good fortune,
if everything's rollin' my way,

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if all these balls
have bounced in my favor...

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There is some poor bastard
out there

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who's getting
the screws put to him.

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When I got laid off
and I had time on my hands,

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I was thinking,
"well, what can I do

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to kind of feel like
I have control of something,"

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so I looked at twin galaxies.

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I just... well, I typed in
donkey Kong world record,

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and some spreadsheet came up,
and I saw what the score was.

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It was held by Billy Mitchell,
and it was, like, 874,000.

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I go, "hey, I can beat that."

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[Playing piano]

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Almost there.

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Woman: I mean, I'm not the kind
of wife that's needy

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that I need him sitting on
the couch with me every night.

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I don't need that.

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What I need is him in the house
helping me with the kids

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or I need him
being with the kids.

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So he would want
to come out here and play,

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and that would drive me crazy,
'cause he is definitely ocd.

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When he is obsessed
on something,

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he is so focused,
and I have to be like, "hello."

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Um, so then I just said,
"you have to do it at night."

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Boy: Is level 2 easy?

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Steve:
Yeah, it's pretty easy.

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I've dreamed of, you know,
being a musician for a living.

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That's what my dream was.

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Nicole: He was brought up to be
that he was smart,

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he was an athlete,
he was talented,

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and for whatever reason,
he could never get those to fit.

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Steve was one of the original
starving grunge bands

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here in Seattle,
just starving.

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The only people who came
to see him was us.

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Man 3: With his music,
it's almost like

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he didn't want people to know
he was doing it.

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He's a total paradox that way.

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♪ I've been looking so long
at these pictures of you ♪

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He has maybe a little social
hang-ups here and there

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that, um...
That haven't allowed him

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to be as successful
on one end as in other ends.

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They got
to the state finals,
and Steve couldn't pitch.

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Mike Thompson:
I've probably seen Steve
with tears in his eyes

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more than any other guy I know,

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uh, because of the frustration
that would build in him.

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And half the time,
it was on the pitcher's mound.

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Steve's dad:
He had hurt his arm.
I had pitched him too much.

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I was the manager of the team.

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Thompson:
It was a chance for him to shine
in front of thousands of people.

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Nicole: That killed him...
That he couldn't pitch

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because it's that
competitiveness in him.

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♪ And we kissed
as the sky fell in ♪

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♪ holding you close ♪

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♪ how I always held close ♪

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I envisioned him
as, uh, an engineer at boeing.

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Steve: My dad worked at boeing
for 30 some years,

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and the plan was to go to boeing
and be a lifer,

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as they call 'em.

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But, um, things didn't work out.

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I don't know if he told you
that he was laid off

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the day we signed papers
on our house. Yeah.

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♪ And you finally found ♪

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♪ all your courage
to let it all go ♪

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Thompson: He never has quite
reached that pinnacle.

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He never quite,
in any of his endeavors,

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was regaled
as the number-one guy,

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the guy that was better
than the rest

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and was on top of the mountain.

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Oh, he's just come up short
in a lot of things in his life,

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and I just think, you know,

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nobody wants to do that
all the time.

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♪ Lost in the cold ♪

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♪ you were always so lost
in the dark ♪

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♪ remembering you ♪

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Steve: It has my high score
saved on there from last.

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♪ Slow drowned,
you were angels ♪

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♪ so much more than everything ♪

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♪ hold for the last time ♪

237
00:13:17,666 --> 00:13:20,495
♪ then slip away quietly ♪

238
00:13:20,582 --> 00:13:23,237
Mitchell: What plunged me
into competitive gaming,

239
00:13:23,367 --> 00:13:26,718
never to come out,
was donkey Kong.

240
00:13:26,849 --> 00:13:30,157
Donkey Kong. Well, that was
thefirst ever Mario game.

241
00:13:30,287 --> 00:13:32,202
The whole thing
is a construction site.

242
00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:34,253
It's all these girders
and elevators with ladders

243
00:13:34,335 --> 00:13:36,076
going from one girder
to the next.

244
00:13:36,206 --> 00:13:39,731
The whole goal, the whole time
is to get past the obstacles

245
00:13:39,819 --> 00:13:43,474
that Kong is throwing at you
and get... get the girl.

246
00:13:43,605 --> 00:13:46,390
Well, donkey Kong, without
question, is the hardest game.

247
00:13:46,477 --> 00:13:49,263
It's ridiculously difficult
on the first screen.

248
00:13:51,178 --> 00:13:53,615
Sanders: Donkey Kong
is releasing these barrels.

249
00:13:53,745 --> 00:13:55,025
You got to jump
over the barrels.

250
00:13:55,051 --> 00:13:56,531
You gotta duck
the barrels.

251
00:13:56,661 --> 00:13:59,795
You can grab a hammer
and hammer the barrels.

252
00:13:59,926 --> 00:14:02,537
Okay, the secret
about the barrel board

253
00:14:02,667 --> 00:14:04,844
is you can actually
control the barrels.

254
00:14:04,931 --> 00:14:06,715
Right above this ladder,

255
00:14:06,846 --> 00:14:08,978
you'll do a quick left,
and then a hard right turn.

256
00:14:09,109 --> 00:14:11,807
See how it went down?
Went down again.

257
00:14:11,894 --> 00:14:14,133
Sanders: You gotta get past
all the barrels, the fireballs,

258
00:14:14,157 --> 00:14:15,157
get up the ladders.

259
00:14:15,202 --> 00:14:17,030
And as soon as you get to her,

260
00:14:17,117 --> 00:14:20,250
donkey Kong takes her away
to the next level.

261
00:14:21,599 --> 00:14:23,664
Mitchell: The average donkey
Kong game doesn't last a minute.

262
00:14:23,688 --> 00:14:25,473
It's absolute brutality.

263
00:14:25,603 --> 00:14:27,475
Each of the 18 elevator boards

264
00:14:27,605 --> 00:14:30,739
represents the greatest
challenge in video game playing.

265
00:14:30,870 --> 00:14:32,654
Sanders: The average gamer
on donkey Kong

266
00:14:32,784 --> 00:14:36,179
will never get past
the third elevator stage.

267
00:14:36,266 --> 00:14:38,747
Just the slightest touch from
one of these Springs, kills you.

268
00:14:38,878 --> 00:14:41,619
There's no hammer for them.
There's no way to defeat them.

269
00:14:41,706 --> 00:14:44,057
All you can do is avoid them.
That's it.

270
00:14:44,187 --> 00:14:45,928
Steve: And the secret
to the third elevators

271
00:14:46,059 --> 00:14:49,714
is knowing which spring
to go on,

272
00:14:49,845 --> 00:14:52,413
and then knowing which spring
to move up the ladder on,

273
00:14:52,543 --> 00:14:54,894
and recognizing
when you must retreat.

274
00:14:55,024 --> 00:14:58,158
If you don't time it just
exactly right, you will die.

275
00:14:58,288 --> 00:15:01,813
It boils down
to hardcore skill.

276
00:15:01,944 --> 00:15:05,121
Steve: So I go on that one
because it line up
with the dashed line.

277
00:15:05,252 --> 00:15:08,646
Now I'm waiting for one to line
up with the solid line there.

278
00:15:09,952 --> 00:15:12,172
I have said from the day
I met Steve

279
00:15:12,302 --> 00:15:15,001
that his talent
is in his hands.

280
00:15:15,088 --> 00:15:18,918
He pitched.
He was at basketball.
He's a phenomenal drawer.

281
00:15:19,048 --> 00:15:20,848
And if you ever
seen pictures that he's drawn,

282
00:15:20,876 --> 00:15:23,009
but he's very artistic.

283
00:15:23,139 --> 00:15:25,359
It's operating on some
subconscious level with him,

284
00:15:25,446 --> 00:15:27,056
I think.

285
00:15:27,187 --> 00:15:30,625
When we were driving to Kansas
or whatever, family trips,

286
00:15:30,712 --> 00:15:32,453
he'd sit there,
and for a hundred miles

287
00:15:32,583 --> 00:15:35,108
would bang his head, you know,

288
00:15:35,238 --> 00:15:37,327
four... four time
against the back of the seat.

289
00:15:37,458 --> 00:15:40,461
Five, six, seven, eight, nine...

290
00:15:40,591 --> 00:15:43,048
Steve's mom:
Well, I've often thought that
he maybe is a little autistic,

291
00:15:43,072 --> 00:15:45,248
that he's just
that obsessive compulsive,

292
00:15:45,379 --> 00:15:47,555
'cause he would get
something in his mind.

293
00:15:47,685 --> 00:15:49,165
He wanted to play drums,

294
00:15:49,296 --> 00:15:51,298
and I don't even know
where he got that idea.

295
00:15:51,428 --> 00:15:57,217
This is Derek's drum set,
and it's not too bad.

296
00:15:57,347 --> 00:16:00,611
It's... it does the trick.

297
00:16:00,742 --> 00:16:03,223
[Drums playing]

298
00:16:05,529 --> 00:16:09,490
[Drums continue]

299
00:16:14,582 --> 00:16:18,934
[Drums continue]

300
00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:43,176
The actual game play involves
so much eye-hand coordination,

301
00:16:43,306 --> 00:16:44,655
mind-body coordination,

302
00:16:44,786 --> 00:16:47,267
fast reaction time
and comprehensive thinking.

303
00:16:47,397 --> 00:16:50,139
Such a high level
of precise execution.

304
00:16:51,314 --> 00:16:52,446
So much skill...

305
00:16:54,013 --> 00:16:55,840
Involves so much learning.

306
00:17:00,106 --> 00:17:05,024
You have to have
deep comprehensive intelligence.

307
00:17:08,331 --> 00:17:10,464
Um, for years and years,
it was believed

308
00:17:10,594 --> 00:17:14,598
that Billy's record of 874,000
in 1982

309
00:17:14,729 --> 00:17:16,992
was really the highest score
anyone would ever get.

310
00:17:17,079 --> 00:17:19,342
And in fact, some of us
have played this game

311
00:17:19,429 --> 00:17:21,518
every day or every week
or every month since then,

312
00:17:21,649 --> 00:17:22,969
and no one's
gotten close to that.

313
00:17:22,998 --> 00:17:25,827
No one across
that big length of time

314
00:17:25,957 --> 00:17:29,961
will ever be able to beat
his world record.

315
00:17:32,007 --> 00:17:36,490
[Video game sounds]

316
00:17:44,454 --> 00:17:47,805
Steve:
Derek, look. You're on TV.

317
00:17:47,936 --> 00:17:49,894
See yourself? Say, "hi."

318
00:17:50,025 --> 00:17:51,374
Derek: No.

319
00:17:51,461 --> 00:17:53,159
I was havin'
the game of my life.

320
00:17:53,289 --> 00:17:58,599
I was... think I got 600,000,
and I hadn't died yet.

321
00:17:58,729 --> 00:18:01,689
And when I started
hearing some noises

322
00:18:01,819 --> 00:18:03,734
coming down the stairs,
screaming...

323
00:18:03,865 --> 00:18:06,998
[Derek screaming]

324
00:18:39,161 --> 00:18:40,597
And it's all on tape,
and I...

325
00:18:40,728 --> 00:18:43,122
That's the tape I had to send in
to... to twin galaxies.

326
00:18:45,602 --> 00:18:47,300
Day:
Everything I'm all about

327
00:18:47,387 --> 00:18:49,215
by practicing
transcendental meditation,

328
00:18:49,345 --> 00:18:50,868
and I like to see
that mirrored

329
00:18:50,999 --> 00:18:54,089
in the way I apply myself
to the video game world,

330
00:18:54,220 --> 00:18:56,047
in that
I seek to find champions

331
00:18:56,178 --> 00:18:58,224
and watch them grow
and become even greater

332
00:18:58,354 --> 00:19:02,010
as they begin to unfold more and
more of their full potential,

333
00:19:02,141 --> 00:19:03,707
which is what we do
when we do tm.

334
00:19:03,838 --> 00:19:08,712
If Walter, through all these
years, all the way since 1982,

335
00:19:08,843 --> 00:19:12,455
hadn't continued
as a labor of love,

336
00:19:12,586 --> 00:19:14,805
then there would be
no central organization

337
00:19:14,892 --> 00:19:16,546
for competitive
video game playing.

338
00:19:16,677 --> 00:19:19,767
Day: Why do we do it?
Because we actually love this.

339
00:19:19,897 --> 00:19:21,856
Because we enjoy this.
We're fascinated by this.

340
00:19:21,986 --> 00:19:23,510
There's just something
in our genes

341
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,600
that my group, twin galaxies,
raising the banner high

342
00:19:26,730 --> 00:19:29,559
to do this and move... move
organized video game playing

343
00:19:29,690 --> 00:19:30,690
into the future.

344
00:19:30,734 --> 00:19:31,996
Walter opened the door

345
00:19:32,127 --> 00:19:35,565
to truly...
I was gonna say international,

346
00:19:35,696 --> 00:19:38,394
but at the very least,
national competitive gaming.

347
00:19:38,525 --> 00:19:40,266
We just happened to call it
twin galaxies.

348
00:19:40,396 --> 00:19:42,572
The name burst into my brain.

349
00:19:42,703 --> 00:19:44,661
Sanders: Walter day didn't
do that by accident.

350
00:19:44,792 --> 00:19:48,883
Didn't get lucky.
He-he created his own empire.

351
00:19:49,013 --> 00:19:50,841
Join us again
for video game news update.

352
00:19:50,972 --> 00:19:53,627
I'm Walter day
at the twin galaxies
international scoreboard.

353
00:19:53,714 --> 00:19:54,995
It's been a wearying thing
being the scorekeeper

354
00:19:55,019 --> 00:19:57,021
because everybody picks on me,
you know?

355
00:19:57,152 --> 00:20:00,199
'Cause I'm the man, you know?
I'm a police officer.

356
00:20:00,329 --> 00:20:03,245
Video games need a guy
like bush, who will say,

357
00:20:03,376 --> 00:20:04,875
"look, this is the way
we're gonna do it.

358
00:20:04,899 --> 00:20:08,119
This is the rule, and if you
don't like it, tough."

359
00:20:08,207 --> 00:20:09,599
You've got to have that.

360
00:20:09,730 --> 00:20:12,385
If you didn't have that
in the NFL, who'd win?

361
00:20:12,515 --> 00:20:14,580
How do you declare a champion
unless there are rules?

362
00:20:14,604 --> 00:20:16,171
And if you break 'em,
you lose.

363
00:20:29,010 --> 00:20:33,667
The best features about him
are also his biggest downfall.

364
00:20:33,754 --> 00:20:36,496
People can just run over him
because he's so nice.

365
00:20:36,626 --> 00:20:40,717
Twin galaxies survives
because people like Walter,

366
00:20:40,804 --> 00:20:44,721
people like Robert mruczek,
people like me,

367
00:20:44,852 --> 00:20:49,117
who participate all for
a passion of competitive gaming.

368
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:50,771
Nobody draws a paycheck.

369
00:20:50,901 --> 00:20:53,861
I don't see details.
I see big pictures, you know?

370
00:20:53,991 --> 00:20:56,951
I see the big concept that lies
behind the whole issue,

371
00:20:57,081 --> 00:20:58,169
and then I tweak that.

372
00:20:58,300 --> 00:21:00,346
I can't do details and details.

373
00:21:00,476 --> 00:21:03,262
Twin galaxies needs a staff
of detail-oriented people

374
00:21:03,392 --> 00:21:05,089
like Robert mruczek.

375
00:21:05,220 --> 00:21:07,440
Mruczek: Um, anything
that's unexplainable,

376
00:21:07,570 --> 00:21:09,180
out of the ordinary,

377
00:21:09,311 --> 00:21:10,747
we have to keep our eyes
out for.

378
00:21:10,834 --> 00:21:12,488
That's not to say
we're infallible.

379
00:21:12,619 --> 00:21:16,492
When I have to watch that pile
of eight tapes over there

380
00:21:16,623 --> 00:21:19,321
for Dwayne Richard's
two-day nibbler performance,

381
00:21:19,408 --> 00:21:21,323
that's 48 straight hours
of paying attention

382
00:21:21,454 --> 00:21:23,978
to make sure that he's doing
everything correctly.

383
00:21:24,108 --> 00:21:25,980
Package from
the metroid team in Brazil,

384
00:21:26,110 --> 00:21:27,590
some atari 2600 records.

385
00:21:27,721 --> 00:21:28,896
Gotta watch that.

386
00:21:28,983 --> 00:21:31,333
These things take time
to verify.

387
00:21:31,464 --> 00:21:33,311
And I have to look
at every single one of these.

388
00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,076
Like I showed you over here.

389
00:21:35,206 --> 00:21:38,166
This is just 200 videotapes.
That's nothing.

390
00:21:38,297 --> 00:21:40,211
This is the real stuff
that I have to do.

391
00:21:40,342 --> 00:21:44,433
I see world's records in my room
set just about every single day.

392
00:21:44,564 --> 00:21:46,043
Some people think
a world's record

393
00:21:46,174 --> 00:21:47,349
is what's set at the Olympics

394
00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,395
or at the end
of a baseball season.

395
00:21:49,525 --> 00:21:53,137
I see this every single day,
and not just sometimes once.

396
00:21:53,268 --> 00:21:55,401
- It's exciting.
- Steve: Derek.

397
00:21:55,488 --> 00:21:59,318
- Derek:
Stop playing donkey Kong.
- You stop it.

398
00:21:59,405 --> 00:22:00,928
[Chuckling]

399
00:22:02,495 --> 00:22:05,193
Derek: Stop playing
donkey Kong!
Maybe.

400
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,674
Yeah, that was close.
That was actually good.

401
00:22:07,804 --> 00:22:09,850
Steve: You stop it![Derek screaming]

402
00:22:09,980 --> 00:22:12,200
Steve: Stop it!

403
00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:14,289
Derek, stop it. No.

404
00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:17,205
Derek: Stop playing
donkey Kong.

405
00:22:17,336 --> 00:22:19,294
Steve: Derek? Derek: Stop playing
donkey Kong.

406
00:22:19,425 --> 00:22:22,428
Derek, I'm gonna
throw away your rest
if you don't stop it. Derek!

407
00:22:22,558 --> 00:22:23,666
Somebody has
accomplished something

408
00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:24,995
that not only I can't do,

409
00:22:25,126 --> 00:22:26,712
that nobody else
has ever been done before,

410
00:22:26,736 --> 00:22:28,738
and it's exciting
to see that firsthand.

411
00:22:28,869 --> 00:22:31,001
That's how you play donkey Kong.

412
00:22:31,088 --> 00:22:33,569
New world record.

413
00:22:36,050 --> 00:22:38,574
Welcome back.
Bill Gates isn't necessarily

414
00:22:38,661 --> 00:22:41,011
the most famous name
in redmond tonight.

415
00:22:41,142 --> 00:22:43,971
Woman: Coming up, meet the man
who's at the top of his game.

416
00:22:44,058 --> 00:22:45,755
Wright:
A donkey Kong world record.

417
00:22:45,886 --> 00:22:49,716
He was a big celebrity there
for a bit in Seattle.

418
00:22:49,846 --> 00:22:51,195
Steve: I was just doing it.

419
00:22:51,326 --> 00:22:53,046
Just thought it would be
a neat achievement.

420
00:22:53,110 --> 00:22:56,897
I didn't think it would ever
blow up to be a big story.

421
00:22:57,027 --> 00:22:59,290
Nicole: He goes, "you're
the first lady of donkey Kong."

422
00:22:59,421 --> 00:23:01,336
I'm like, "oh, my god."

423
00:23:01,467 --> 00:23:04,905
Thompson: Even though it was
this silly video game thing,

424
00:23:05,035 --> 00:23:07,821
it's not many of us
that have a buddy

425
00:23:07,951 --> 00:23:11,302
who's the best in the world
at something.

426
00:23:11,433 --> 00:23:13,783
That was a godsend to him
in the last couple of years

427
00:23:13,870 --> 00:23:15,655
to get him through.

428
00:23:15,785 --> 00:23:18,788
Like it might be... it was like
a safe haven for him, yeah.

429
00:23:18,962 --> 00:23:20,660
♪ No equality ♪

430
00:23:20,747 --> 00:23:21,747
♪ be still ♪

431
00:23:21,835 --> 00:23:24,403
♪ I will not accept defeat ♪

432
00:23:24,577 --> 00:23:26,405
♪ I will have you ♪

433
00:23:26,579 --> 00:23:28,798
♪ yes, I will have you ♪

434
00:23:28,972 --> 00:23:30,539
♪ I will find a way ♪

435
00:23:30,713 --> 00:23:32,541
♪ and I will have you ♪

436
00:23:32,628 --> 00:23:34,500
Steve:
We're at kamiakin junior high,

437
00:23:34,630 --> 00:23:37,459
and I'm here in my seventh and
eight grade science classroom.

438
00:23:37,590 --> 00:23:39,113
It's my first year at teaching,

439
00:23:39,243 --> 00:23:42,377
so it's been a challenge,
but very enjoyable so far.

440
00:23:42,508 --> 00:23:48,949
Sand, soil, and the cornstarch.

441
00:23:49,079 --> 00:23:52,866
I went to, uh,
the city university,
which had a program and...

442
00:23:52,996 --> 00:23:55,695
One year,
you had a master's degree,

443
00:23:55,782 --> 00:23:58,219
so we roughed it out
for a year.

444
00:23:58,306 --> 00:24:02,049
And here I am today,
so it finally worked out.

445
00:24:02,179 --> 00:24:05,269
It's fun, and he's
not making it so it's like,

446
00:24:05,356 --> 00:24:08,011
"this is science.
This is boring."

447
00:24:08,142 --> 00:24:09,970
He talks to us about stuff

448
00:24:10,100 --> 00:24:12,660
that's not just like
homework and schoolwork
and school and stuff.

449
00:24:12,755 --> 00:24:15,236
Okay, here is...

450
00:24:15,366 --> 00:24:19,066
My history with donkey Kong is,
I have the world record.

451
00:24:19,196 --> 00:24:22,635
Okay, I didn't know
it was a world record.

452
00:24:22,722 --> 00:24:26,073
It's for donkey Kong,
is it? Oh, my gosh.

453
00:24:26,203 --> 00:24:28,075
There is like... it's...

454
00:24:28,205 --> 00:24:29,748
All the science teachers
here are weird.

455
00:24:29,772 --> 00:24:31,948
Steve deserves
a lot of credit for that

456
00:24:32,079 --> 00:24:35,952
because he also... he also
broke the record
on donkey Kong Jr.

457
00:24:36,083 --> 00:24:39,695
So he-he took two... he took two
of Billy's titles,

458
00:24:39,782 --> 00:24:41,392
like, right away from him.

459
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:43,414
And I don't mean to sound,
you know, crude or anything.

460
00:24:43,438 --> 00:24:45,788
But he did. He did.
Officially, he did.

461
00:24:45,875 --> 00:24:48,922
That was the last world record
that bill ever had.

462
00:24:49,052 --> 00:24:50,172
That was the last one to go.

463
00:24:50,271 --> 00:24:52,316
He had five world records
in 1985,

464
00:24:52,447 --> 00:24:57,104
and he had the donkey Kong, and
then Steve wiebe took it away.

465
00:24:57,234 --> 00:24:59,802
Mitchell:
It's far more difficult
when you're on top,

466
00:24:59,933 --> 00:25:02,675
anybody who's on top,
to stay on top.

467
00:25:02,762 --> 00:25:05,155
Billy's got a lot of things
up his sleeve.

468
00:25:05,242 --> 00:25:08,507
He likes to keep quiet
in situations like that.

469
00:25:08,637 --> 00:25:11,727
So, you know, somebody may have
taken him down now,

470
00:25:11,858 --> 00:25:13,879
but behind closed doors,
Billy's got something planned.

471
00:25:13,903 --> 00:25:15,209
That's Billy Mitchell.

472
00:25:15,339 --> 00:25:17,385
On my phone, it says,
"never surrender."

473
00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:19,561
If somebody
beat his record,

474
00:25:19,692 --> 00:25:21,824
he'd have a plan
to beat it back.

475
00:25:21,955 --> 00:25:23,086
I'm sure.

476
00:25:23,217 --> 00:25:24,914
The worse thing
that could happen

477
00:25:25,045 --> 00:25:29,266
would be to give somebody
the credibility of a score

478
00:25:29,353 --> 00:25:32,052
that doesn't deserve it.

479
00:25:32,139 --> 00:25:35,664
But even far worse than that
would be to deny somebody

480
00:25:35,795 --> 00:25:39,146
the credibility
when they deserved it.

481
00:25:39,276 --> 00:25:41,322
If I'm not there, I don't know.

482
00:25:41,452 --> 00:25:42,845
And get this.

483
00:25:42,976 --> 00:25:45,152
I came home one day
and there was two people

484
00:25:45,282 --> 00:25:48,547
in my garage
looking at my machine.

485
00:25:48,634 --> 00:25:51,593
They wanted to...
They're spies.

486
00:25:51,724 --> 00:25:56,293
It was a Saturday.
It was in July or August.

487
00:25:56,424 --> 00:25:58,794
And my mom was here 'cause I was
getting ready to go to work.

488
00:25:58,818 --> 00:26:00,254
And these guys
knocked on the door,

489
00:26:00,384 --> 00:26:02,604
and I don't think I knew
they were gonna be here at all.

490
00:26:02,735 --> 00:26:05,215
And they said that
who they were,

491
00:26:05,346 --> 00:26:07,019
and they wanted to come in
and look at the machine.

492
00:26:07,043 --> 00:26:08,567
And I knew I had to leave,
and I said,

493
00:26:08,654 --> 00:26:11,700
"I'm not comfortable
in letting you do that.

494
00:26:11,831 --> 00:26:14,660
"I have to go to work.
My mom is here.

495
00:26:14,790 --> 00:26:16,575
"Steve's gonna be home shortly.

496
00:26:16,705 --> 00:26:18,707
You just need to wait.
You just need to wait."

497
00:26:18,838 --> 00:26:21,536
To find out
at an ultra elite level,

498
00:26:21,667 --> 00:26:23,277
whether or not a score is good,

499
00:26:23,407 --> 00:26:26,106
sometimes we have no choice
but to call in the pros.

500
00:26:26,193 --> 00:26:28,195
Bri-Brian kuh,
the donkey Kong player,

501
00:26:28,325 --> 00:26:29,631
went to Steve's place.

502
00:26:29,762 --> 00:26:31,285
Bill asked me to do it,

503
00:26:31,372 --> 00:26:33,089
but I didn't have time
to go do it, so Brian did it.

504
00:26:33,113 --> 00:26:35,898
Went there with one of the most
respected gamers of all time,

505
00:26:36,029 --> 00:26:37,291
Perry Rodgers,
to back him up.

506
00:26:37,421 --> 00:26:40,686
Billy Mitchell and twin galaxies
asked me to, um,

507
00:26:40,773 --> 00:26:42,339
because I live
in the area near him,

508
00:26:42,470 --> 00:26:43,863
to go investigate him.

509
00:26:43,993 --> 00:26:45,299
So we went out to his house.

510
00:26:45,386 --> 00:26:47,214
I mean, I'm the homeowner.
It's my house.

511
00:26:47,344 --> 00:26:49,216
I'm the wife
of the donkey Kong guy.

512
00:26:49,303 --> 00:26:50,913
They should've
respected my wishes

513
00:26:51,044 --> 00:26:53,612
and left my mom alone and not
come in, but they didn't.

514
00:26:53,699 --> 00:26:56,745
They took apart
his donkey Kong machine,

515
00:26:56,876 --> 00:26:58,505
and started taking pictures
of everything.

516
00:26:58,529 --> 00:26:59,855
You know, trying to look
for an excuse

517
00:26:59,879 --> 00:27:01,576
to try to invalidate
his score.

518
00:27:01,707 --> 00:27:04,448
They saw this box

519
00:27:04,535 --> 00:27:08,191
that has Roy shildt's
return address on it.

520
00:27:08,322 --> 00:27:09,845
So they looked over
and they said,

521
00:27:09,976 --> 00:27:12,239
"Roy shildt? Why is
Roy shildt's name on there?"

522
00:27:12,369 --> 00:27:15,938
Roy shildt is the type of gamer
that would like nothing more

523
00:27:16,025 --> 00:27:18,811
than to see twin galaxies
get an egg on its face.

524
00:27:23,903 --> 00:27:27,820
I want you to remember
that no punk bastard

525
00:27:27,907 --> 00:27:31,650
ever got a gnarly piece
of poontang

526
00:27:31,780 --> 00:27:34,435
by being sensitive
and considerate.

527
00:27:34,565 --> 00:27:36,567
He calls himself Mr. Awesome.

528
00:27:36,655 --> 00:27:39,222
He drives the awesomobile
to fame and fortune,

529
00:27:39,353 --> 00:27:41,050
as he says on his web site.

530
00:27:41,181 --> 00:27:43,923
He's jealous of Billy
because Billy gets attention

531
00:27:44,053 --> 00:27:45,925
from beautiful women
wherever he goes.

532
00:27:46,055 --> 00:27:47,883
And, essentially,
he wants to be like Billy.

533
00:27:48,014 --> 00:27:51,539
I mean, I've seen the world
champion cherry pit spitter

534
00:27:51,670 --> 00:27:53,497
on the tonight show
with Jay leno.

535
00:27:53,628 --> 00:27:55,214
And if that guy should be
on the tonight show,

536
00:27:55,238 --> 00:27:58,372
at least I can just... just be
a celebrity for a day.

537
00:27:58,502 --> 00:28:00,679
I didn't even get that.
I got no recognition at all.

538
00:28:00,809 --> 00:28:02,550
I didn't get to be
on any television shows.

539
00:28:02,681 --> 00:28:04,639
It's like I...
It's like I was a ghost,

540
00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:06,050
and I just don't feel
it's right,

541
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,164
and I just want
a little recognition.

542
00:28:08,295 --> 00:28:09,992
I'm not necessarily
to become a celebrity.

543
00:28:10,123 --> 00:28:11,602
Hey, Billy.
How you doing, man?

544
00:28:11,733 --> 00:28:14,127
How you doing? Billy, how are you?

545
00:28:14,257 --> 00:28:15,519
I'm perfect.
Haven't you read?

546
00:28:15,606 --> 00:28:18,479
Twin galaxies does a lot
to promote Billy

547
00:28:18,566 --> 00:28:21,047
'cause it's very much
to twin galaxies' advantage

548
00:28:21,177 --> 00:28:23,484
and very much to the whole
gaming hobby's advantage

549
00:28:23,571 --> 00:28:24,964
for Billy to become a star.

550
00:28:25,094 --> 00:28:27,967
When Walter day
published that book in 1997,

551
00:28:28,097 --> 00:28:30,273
with all those egregious
errors in there,

552
00:28:30,404 --> 00:28:32,101
bill Mitchell saw it.

553
00:28:32,232 --> 00:28:33,992
And he knew they were wrong.
He knew they were mistakes.

554
00:28:34,016 --> 00:28:35,888
But he tried to pretend
like they were real

555
00:28:36,018 --> 00:28:37,977
to try to take
my missile command score down.

556
00:28:38,107 --> 00:28:41,502
Roy and I met
at California extreme,

557
00:28:41,632 --> 00:28:44,157
and he knew that I was...
Had a capability

558
00:28:44,287 --> 00:28:46,246
of beating Billy
on donkey Kong.

559
00:28:46,376 --> 00:28:48,441
Shildt: Steve wiebe is the one
who had unlocked the secrets
to donkey Kong

560
00:28:48,465 --> 00:28:50,293
to figure out how to get
a million points.

561
00:28:50,424 --> 00:28:53,122
He offered to buy me a board,
a donkey Kong board,

562
00:28:53,253 --> 00:28:55,124
because mine had broken.

563
00:28:55,255 --> 00:28:57,083
And I didn't have the money.

564
00:28:57,170 --> 00:28:59,912
So, you know, it was a
mutual-beneficial relationship.

565
00:28:59,999 --> 00:29:01,870
He would buy me a board.

566
00:29:01,957 --> 00:29:03,997
I would have the opportunity
to beat Billy's record,

567
00:29:04,046 --> 00:29:06,396
and at the same time,
I would take Billy down

568
00:29:06,483 --> 00:29:09,225
and seek
Roy's revenge on Billy.

569
00:29:09,356 --> 00:29:13,229
Um, and it seemed good
at the time, you know?

570
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:15,160
And unknowing to me,
I didn't know the history

571
00:29:15,275 --> 00:29:18,539
between the bad blood
with Roy and Billy, and...

572
00:29:18,626 --> 00:29:22,238
To attempt something like this
for the sole purpose

573
00:29:22,369 --> 00:29:25,546
of taking down
one of bill's scores,

574
00:29:25,676 --> 00:29:27,635
it's like a...
A slap in the face.

575
00:29:27,766 --> 00:29:29,376
They would say
that I somehow monkeyed

576
00:29:29,463 --> 00:29:30,899
with the board or something,
they...

577
00:29:31,030 --> 00:29:32,858
But they wouldn't have
any evidence.

578
00:29:32,988 --> 00:29:34,966
They looked at the board.
They took the pictures
of the board,

579
00:29:34,990 --> 00:29:36,663
and they couldn't find
anything wrong with it.

580
00:29:36,687 --> 00:29:39,778
The fact that
the right gummy substance

581
00:29:39,908 --> 00:29:42,128
on the right chip
out of all these chips,

582
00:29:42,258 --> 00:29:46,306
in the right spot
on the right board.

583
00:29:46,393 --> 00:29:51,093
I mean, I... I... I... I have to say
there's a conspiracy here.

584
00:29:51,180 --> 00:29:54,662
Any board that's worked on
could have a problem.

585
00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:57,970
To find out
that this gamer potentially

586
00:29:58,100 --> 00:30:01,147
has a fraudulent score
has upset Billy's master plan

587
00:30:01,277 --> 00:30:02,931
for what he wanted to do.

588
00:30:03,062 --> 00:30:05,040
I mean, when you come home
and see two guys in your garage,

589
00:30:05,064 --> 00:30:06,302
and you know why...
And you've learned

590
00:30:06,326 --> 00:30:07,726
why they're there,
and you got to...

591
00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:10,243
From a guy like bill Mitchell,
I mean, you know,

592
00:30:10,373 --> 00:30:12,506
who's done crazy thing
after crazy thing

593
00:30:12,636 --> 00:30:14,856
after the next crazy thing,
you know?

594
00:30:14,987 --> 00:30:18,686
Billy Mitchell
was one of the evaluators,
which seemed a little strange

595
00:30:18,817 --> 00:30:22,690
that the guy whose records
Steve is competing against

596
00:30:22,821 --> 00:30:26,259
is deciding whether or not
Steve's records are valid.

597
00:30:26,389 --> 00:30:30,089
Even if that board is
a completely legitimate board,

598
00:30:30,219 --> 00:30:32,526
Roy's taint on it
is too strong.

599
00:30:32,656 --> 00:30:34,920
"Roy shildt's a liar.
Roy shildt's a cheater.

600
00:30:35,050 --> 00:30:37,210
"Roy shildt's full of crap.
Roy shildt's out to get me.

601
00:30:37,313 --> 00:30:40,099
"And he's crazy,
blah, blah, blah, blah."

602
00:30:40,229 --> 00:30:42,753
Well, he threatened
bill Mitchell physically.

603
00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:47,628
Uh, in fact, he has threatened
bill Mitchell's life.

604
00:30:47,758 --> 00:30:50,936
No, I did not.
I did not. I did not.

605
00:30:51,066 --> 00:30:55,505
He threatened his own life
to make it look like me

606
00:30:55,592 --> 00:30:57,638
because for whatever...
To gain leverage

607
00:30:57,768 --> 00:30:59,728
with the other...
With other people, I don't know.

608
00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,555
He figured... what he...

609
00:31:01,642 --> 00:31:04,123
What he knows that my missile
command score is genuine.

610
00:31:04,253 --> 00:31:07,300
No matter what I say,
it draws controversy.

611
00:31:07,430 --> 00:31:09,171
Sort of like
the abortion issue.

612
00:31:09,302 --> 00:31:11,565
If you're for it,
you're a son of a gun.

613
00:31:11,695 --> 00:31:13,828
If you're against it,
you're a son of a gun.

614
00:31:13,959 --> 00:31:17,136
Uh, I'm not god.
I don't have all the answers.

615
00:31:17,266 --> 00:31:19,703
And so I have to be careful
how I share my opinions.

616
00:31:19,834 --> 00:31:22,576
So Roy just was trying
to help me out,

617
00:31:22,663 --> 00:31:25,753
and I accepted his offer.

618
00:31:25,884 --> 00:31:27,929
I just, you know...
It's just too bad

619
00:31:28,060 --> 00:31:29,713
that association with him,

620
00:31:29,844 --> 00:31:32,020
I never thought
that would hurt me.

621
00:31:32,107 --> 00:31:35,981
We couldn't accept
a pretender board, so to speak.

622
00:31:36,111 --> 00:31:37,896
So we couldn't
accept the score.

623
00:31:42,596 --> 00:31:45,991
I would encourage Steve
just to leave that board behind,

624
00:31:46,078 --> 00:31:50,560
leave Roy behind, and only play
on other donkey Kong machines

625
00:31:50,647 --> 00:31:52,693
like the one at funspot,
for example.

626
00:31:52,823 --> 00:31:54,434
To me, most importantly,
is you travel

627
00:31:54,564 --> 00:31:56,958
to a sanctioned location,
like funspot.

628
00:31:57,089 --> 00:31:59,526
Uh, that makes it official.

629
00:31:59,656 --> 00:32:04,052
If tomorrow Tiger Woods goes
and he golfs a 59, big deal.

630
00:32:04,183 --> 00:32:06,707
If he does that at Augusta,
that's where it counts.

631
00:32:06,837 --> 00:32:11,016
He's never really
asserted himself

632
00:32:11,146 --> 00:32:13,322
in a way
that I think he should.

633
00:32:13,409 --> 00:32:16,891
Steve: It's been...
Just disappointed so many times

634
00:32:16,978 --> 00:32:19,217
where you just kind of, like,
throw your hands up and go,

635
00:32:19,241 --> 00:32:21,113
"well, let's move on
to the next thing."

636
00:32:21,243 --> 00:32:23,463
Everything would've
fell right into place,

637
00:32:23,593 --> 00:32:27,423
but he forgot about one thing:

638
00:32:27,554 --> 00:32:28,990
That I would... about me

639
00:32:29,121 --> 00:32:31,036
convincing Steve wiebe
not to be a chump,

640
00:32:31,123 --> 00:32:33,864
talking him out of being...
Out of chumpatizing himself.

641
00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:37,999
I didn't think twice about
sending him to back east.

642
00:32:38,130 --> 00:32:40,610
It was like, "absolutely.
Go kick some ass."

643
00:32:46,442 --> 00:32:49,576
Hi. My name is justine barker,
and I'm miss winnipesaukee.

644
00:32:49,663 --> 00:32:51,665
I would like to welcome you
to the seventh annual

645
00:32:51,752 --> 00:32:54,798
American classic arcade museum
tournament at funspot.

646
00:32:54,929 --> 00:32:59,890
Man:
Funspot has become thebest
recognized place worldwide

647
00:33:00,021 --> 00:33:04,330
for those who want to set a
world record on a classic game.

648
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,768
♪ You're the best around ♪

649
00:33:07,942 --> 00:33:09,422
♪ nothing's gonna ever
keep you down ♪

650
00:33:09,509 --> 00:33:11,250
♪ you're the best ♪

651
00:33:11,380 --> 00:33:14,818
Man 1: Funspot is themecca
of classic arcade games.

652
00:33:14,949 --> 00:33:17,256
That place is awesome.

653
00:33:18,474 --> 00:33:20,041
Funspot's the premier place

654
00:33:20,128 --> 00:33:23,218
where the media comes
and meets with the superstars.

655
00:33:23,349 --> 00:33:26,439
Man 2: That's... you don't see
maybe a lot of ddg,

656
00:33:26,569 --> 00:33:28,484
which is drop dead gorgeous
if you don't know...

657
00:33:28,615 --> 00:33:30,225
Girls who are playing
the games.

658
00:33:30,356 --> 00:33:33,837
Man 3: The world's best players
of classic games

659
00:33:33,968 --> 00:33:36,014
are coming here
to do what they do best.

660
00:33:36,144 --> 00:33:37,885
Play well.

661
00:33:38,059 --> 00:33:41,149
♪ You're the best around ♪

662
00:33:41,323 --> 00:33:43,195
♪ nothing's gonna ever
keep you down ♪

663
00:33:43,369 --> 00:33:44,500
♪ you're the best ♪

664
00:33:46,372 --> 00:33:47,895
[Car alarm goes off]

665
00:33:49,636 --> 00:33:51,072
♪ ...around ♪

666
00:33:51,203 --> 00:33:52,900
Kuh: Very recently,
just a few months back,

667
00:33:53,031 --> 00:33:55,163
I turned 30, and I retired,

668
00:33:55,294 --> 00:33:57,122
and I moved here
to New Hampshire.

669
00:33:57,252 --> 00:33:59,254
And I live right close
to funspot.

670
00:33:59,341 --> 00:34:01,126
I play games at funspot
every day now.

671
00:34:01,256 --> 00:34:02,929
I'm gonna have ten pieces
of well done bacon,

672
00:34:02,953 --> 00:34:04,607
I'm gonna have
four hardboiled eggs.

673
00:34:04,738 --> 00:34:06,305
I'm gonna have three pancakes,

674
00:34:06,435 --> 00:34:07,915
and hopefully,
play some great games.

675
00:34:08,002 --> 00:34:09,482
Here I am in my garage.

676
00:34:09,612 --> 00:34:11,527
We're gonna give
Billy Mitchell a call,

677
00:34:11,658 --> 00:34:15,009
see if he's up to a challenge
at funspot.

678
00:34:15,140 --> 00:34:16,576
Let's go ahead
and dial him up.

679
00:34:16,663 --> 00:34:18,273
[Beep]Hi. You've reached
bill Mitchell.

680
00:34:18,404 --> 00:34:20,034
I'm sorry
I'm unavailable
to take your call.

681
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:21,513
Please leave your name
and phone number.

682
00:34:21,537 --> 00:34:23,800
I'll call you back
as soon as possible.
Thank you.

683
00:34:23,931 --> 00:34:25,561
Woman's voice: At the tone,
please record your message.

684
00:34:25,585 --> 00:34:26,412
When you finish recording...

685
00:34:26,542 --> 00:34:27,674
I got a phone message.

686
00:34:27,804 --> 00:34:29,502
Press "1"
for more options.

687
00:34:29,632 --> 00:34:30,720
[Beep]

688
00:34:30,851 --> 00:34:32,548
Hey, Billy.
This is Steve wiebe.

689
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:33,917
Just calling
to see how you're doin'.

690
00:34:33,941 --> 00:34:36,422
Hope everything's okay
with you.

691
00:34:36,552 --> 00:34:39,338
Just seein' what your plans
are for funspot.

692
00:34:39,468 --> 00:34:41,557
I was... Walter day
invited me out there.

693
00:34:41,644 --> 00:34:43,820
And I was just wonderin'
it'd be cool

694
00:34:43,951 --> 00:34:47,824
if we could maybe, uh,
just have a kind of
friendly competition thing.

695
00:34:51,132 --> 00:34:53,482
Mitchell:
I help a lot of people
who wanna go to contests.

696
00:34:53,569 --> 00:34:56,050
When I look at different people
who were my favorites,

697
00:34:56,181 --> 00:34:58,008
- who I'd wanna help,
- aah!

698
00:34:58,096 --> 00:35:00,098
She's at the top of the list.

699
00:35:00,185 --> 00:35:02,012
Oh!

700
00:35:02,143 --> 00:35:03,666
Surprise.
Oh, my god.

701
00:35:03,797 --> 00:35:07,627
And at the ripe age of 80,
she's gonna go to funspot,

702
00:35:07,757 --> 00:35:10,064
and she's gonna set
a world record on qbert.

703
00:35:10,195 --> 00:35:11,239
Okay.

704
00:35:11,370 --> 00:35:12,434
That's the challenge.All right.

705
00:35:12,458 --> 00:35:13,458
Is that agreed?
Yeah.

706
00:35:13,546 --> 00:35:14,808
All right.

707
00:35:14,982 --> 00:35:16,307
♪ Nothing's gonna ever
keep you down ♪

708
00:35:16,331 --> 00:35:19,160
♪ you're the best around ♪

709
00:35:19,247 --> 00:35:26,167
♪ nothing's gonna ever
keep you down ♪

710
00:35:26,298 --> 00:35:27,710
Kuh: You know, we have
a donkey Kong machine here

711
00:35:27,734 --> 00:35:30,345
that funspot purchased
in its year of issue,

712
00:35:30,476 --> 00:35:32,584
and it might even be a little
bit tougher to play here.

713
00:35:32,608 --> 00:35:34,648
People complain about getting
too many wild barrels.

714
00:35:34,741 --> 00:35:37,004
And although
it's totally a random element,

715
00:35:37,135 --> 00:35:38,982
uh, if you're gonna set a score,
you come to funspot,

716
00:35:39,006 --> 00:35:41,878
set it on their donkey Kong
that everybody knows about.

717
00:35:42,009 --> 00:35:43,706
They won't give me my record,

718
00:35:43,837 --> 00:35:47,536
so they've urged me to come out
and do it live.

719
00:35:47,667 --> 00:35:50,322
And I think it's cooler
to do it live, too, so...

720
00:35:50,452 --> 00:35:52,541
I'm pretty amped up
about donkey Kong.

721
00:35:52,672 --> 00:35:55,762
Because I am a serious contender
on donkey Kong.

722
00:35:55,892 --> 00:35:57,392
I've been trying
to actually beat the score

723
00:35:57,416 --> 00:36:00,201
that Billy Mitchell
got back in 1982.

724
00:36:00,288 --> 00:36:03,030
Uh, Nicole,
she's, uh... she was stressing

725
00:36:03,161 --> 00:36:07,339
about being home this weekend
with the kids without me.

726
00:36:07,469 --> 00:36:08,838
She's probably getting sick
of the donkey Kong thing.

727
00:36:08,862 --> 00:36:10,864
It doesn't seem to die.

728
00:36:10,994 --> 00:36:13,625
This is a big weekend,
and I'm really hoping
that this fellow shows up

729
00:36:13,649 --> 00:36:15,369
because, um, you know,
he'd like to tell you

730
00:36:15,477 --> 00:36:17,305
that, uh, he's
the donkey Kong champion.

731
00:36:17,436 --> 00:36:20,221
And, um, the fact
of the matter is, um,

732
00:36:20,308 --> 00:36:23,050
all of us have not
seen him play donkey Kong.

733
00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:25,226
Steve: No one
really noticed me at first.

734
00:36:25,313 --> 00:36:29,012
I was kinda lookin' to see
who I'd pay the money to

735
00:36:29,143 --> 00:36:31,841
to get in the tournament,
signed in.

736
00:36:31,928 --> 00:36:33,887
I recognized Robert mruczek.

737
00:36:34,017 --> 00:36:36,759
Zack is about
30 seconds away
from dying.

738
00:36:36,846 --> 00:36:40,241
Steve:
So I just pretty much walked
over to the donkey Kong machine.

739
00:36:40,328 --> 00:36:42,112
Kuh: Okay. We might
have a good story.

740
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,027
It looks like
the mysterious player

741
00:36:44,158 --> 00:36:45,758
from the west coast,
Steve wiebe is here,

742
00:36:45,855 --> 00:36:47,683
um, playing donkey Kong.

743
00:36:47,814 --> 00:36:49,270
So maybe I, uh...
I'm gonna stop watching
the tournament,

744
00:36:49,294 --> 00:36:51,034
and we'll go over,
see him.

745
00:36:52,645 --> 00:36:54,603
Hey, Walter.You did it, man.

746
00:36:54,734 --> 00:36:56,214
Good to see you.Good to see you.

747
00:36:57,650 --> 00:36:59,086
Yeah.

748
00:37:08,138 --> 00:37:09,778
He didn't say anything
to me, unless he...

749
00:37:11,316 --> 00:37:13,361
Probably a week,
a few days ago.

750
00:37:13,492 --> 00:37:15,755
Steve, apparently,
as I understand it,
is here right now

751
00:37:15,885 --> 00:37:18,192
to prove to everyone
that he's got what it takes.

752
00:37:18,279 --> 00:37:22,283
But with donkey Kong, it's,
you know... it's a little random.

753
00:37:22,414 --> 00:37:26,896
You could get, um, bad luck
with a barrel... with the barrels.

754
00:37:27,027 --> 00:37:28,483
You can get bad luck
with the fireballs,

755
00:37:28,507 --> 00:37:29,919
with the conveyor belts,
with the elevators.

756
00:37:29,943 --> 00:37:32,206
Because that's a tough machine.

757
00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:35,340
These people think that the
machine is possessed, really.

758
00:37:35,470 --> 00:37:37,124
Even bill
thinks it's possessed.

759
00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:40,519
But, um, if Steve can pull off
850,000 or higher

760
00:37:40,649 --> 00:37:42,608
on the machine,
that's a good score.

761
00:37:42,738 --> 00:37:46,568
[Video game sounds]

762
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,635
Well, Billy Mitchell's
the champ, and I guess
that makes me the prodigy.

763
00:37:50,659 --> 00:37:53,923
So we've got the prodigy
against the newcomer.

764
00:37:54,054 --> 00:37:56,728
You can really make a comparison
between an athletic event, um,
and this

765
00:37:56,752 --> 00:37:59,557
because this is, you know,
this is four days of, you know,
really of alertness

766
00:37:59,581 --> 00:38:01,975
and paying attention,
and, uh, you know,

767
00:38:02,062 --> 00:38:04,325
not as hard as doing
a decathlon or a triathlon

768
00:38:04,456 --> 00:38:06,327
but still very, very hard.

769
00:38:09,548 --> 00:38:13,291
[Phone ringing]

770
00:38:13,421 --> 00:38:15,945
Do you want me to get it?

771
00:38:16,076 --> 00:38:17,991
That's funspot.

772
00:38:18,121 --> 00:38:20,994
Hello.
Hey, Brian. How you doin'?

773
00:38:21,081 --> 00:38:24,476
Steve wiebe walked in,
so I've been over at
the donkey Kong the whole time.

774
00:38:24,606 --> 00:38:25,999
Um, what do you think?

775
00:38:26,129 --> 00:38:28,306
Um, I'm gonna be, uh,
you know, playing

776
00:38:28,393 --> 00:38:29,524
over Steve wiebe's
shoulder.

777
00:38:29,655 --> 00:38:31,309
All right.
I'll talk to you later.

778
00:38:31,439 --> 00:38:33,485
Okay. Bye.
Bye.

779
00:38:40,622 --> 00:38:42,668
Steve: Brian kuh came over,
and he's one of the guys

780
00:38:42,798 --> 00:38:47,325
that came to my house
that fateful afternoon

781
00:38:47,455 --> 00:38:49,327
to check out my machine.

782
00:38:49,457 --> 00:38:53,766
Kuh: We're about to pass
520,000 on one man.

783
00:38:53,853 --> 00:38:58,988
So we really have, uh,
have a memorable game here
at the funspot tournament.

784
00:38:59,075 --> 00:39:01,097
And maybe... maybe
I'll skip dinner
and squeeze in a game,

785
00:39:01,121 --> 00:39:03,123
and we'll come back
with the score on there.

786
00:39:04,167 --> 00:39:06,256
Come right in, Brian.Yep.

787
00:39:13,438 --> 00:39:15,353
That ape
is very, very cunning,

788
00:39:15,483 --> 00:39:17,790
and he will do
what he needs to to stop you.

789
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,140
I couldn't get up
fast enough, and
it got me on the left.

790
00:39:20,227 --> 00:39:21,837
Yeah.

791
00:39:26,320 --> 00:39:28,540
Kuh:
I scored 229,000 points.

792
00:39:28,627 --> 00:39:31,194
Pretty weak game, considering I
played a few already.

793
00:39:31,325 --> 00:39:34,110
A little bit half
than what Steve scored,

794
00:39:34,197 --> 00:39:35,547
and Steve's up again.

795
00:39:47,907 --> 00:39:50,257
All right.
We brought you to qbert.

796
00:39:50,388 --> 00:39:52,302
You dedicated time to it.

797
00:39:52,433 --> 00:39:54,846
You said you'd give up
some of your other vices
in order to practice.

798
00:39:54,870 --> 00:39:57,545
We're not gonna lose.
We're not gonna be disappointed.
We're going there to win.

799
00:39:57,569 --> 00:40:01,355
But I have one project,
one thing far more important.

800
00:40:01,486 --> 00:40:04,967
What I need you
to deliver is this.

801
00:40:06,839 --> 00:40:08,797
What is this?

802
00:40:08,928 --> 00:40:10,819
This is a score that they've
wanted to see for a long time,

803
00:40:10,843 --> 00:40:12,932
and I've held it
for all too long.

804
00:40:13,019 --> 00:40:14,859
You give it to Robert
or you give it to Walter.

805
00:40:14,890 --> 00:40:16,936
You can lose your luggage,
but don't lose the tape.

806
00:40:17,066 --> 00:40:18,416
Okay.
Okay?

807
00:40:19,591 --> 00:40:21,244
I'm doing it
just for the fun of it.

808
00:40:21,375 --> 00:40:23,595
When I do an actual score,
I'll do it in person.

809
00:40:23,725 --> 00:40:25,118
He's a very devious person.

810
00:40:25,248 --> 00:40:30,210
He works things out to his end
very well. [Chuckling]

811
00:40:30,340 --> 00:40:31,951
We're really seeing
a great game here.

812
00:40:32,081 --> 00:40:36,172
Uh, it almost... uh, Steve almost
lost a man right there

813
00:40:36,303 --> 00:40:37,173
at the end of that board.

814
00:40:37,304 --> 00:40:38,827
He got a lucky, lucky break.

815
00:40:38,958 --> 00:40:42,222
The randomness went the opposite
way that it usually goes.

816
00:40:42,352 --> 00:40:44,137
And, uh, Steve
is still going here.

817
00:40:44,267 --> 00:40:48,750
[Video game sounds]

818
00:40:55,496 --> 00:40:58,064
Steve:
Oh. I didn't see that.

819
00:41:12,382 --> 00:41:14,733
Steve wiebe
is on his second man.

820
00:41:16,299 --> 00:41:18,214
He's at 696,000.

821
00:41:21,566 --> 00:41:24,177
Who is this guy? What? This is Steve wiebe.

822
00:41:24,307 --> 00:41:25,763
I won't bother you anymore.No problem, man.

823
00:41:25,787 --> 00:41:26,982
I just wanna say hi.Yeah. Nice meeting you.

824
00:41:27,006 --> 00:41:28,703
Yeah, you, too.All right.

825
00:41:30,052 --> 00:41:32,490
He could beat it if he...
If he...

826
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:35,540
He'd have to have
a really good game.

827
00:41:37,669 --> 00:41:39,168
I don't think he knows
the tricks that Billy knows,

828
00:41:39,192 --> 00:41:41,890
but I hear he's very good
on the escalator stage.

829
00:41:45,807 --> 00:41:49,245
Okay. Well, right now
Steve wiebe has 870,000 points

830
00:41:49,376 --> 00:41:51,509
on an active game
of donkey Kong.

831
00:41:51,639 --> 00:41:53,249
Uh, if he clears
a few more boards,

832
00:41:53,380 --> 00:41:55,991
he's gonna have a shot
at getting to the kill screen.

833
00:41:56,122 --> 00:41:58,522
Uh, as far as I know,
no one has ever achieved
the kill screen

834
00:41:58,646 --> 00:42:01,127
on the donkey Kong machine
at funspot.

835
00:42:01,257 --> 00:42:05,348
Numerous classic games, they
all have something in common.

836
00:42:05,479 --> 00:42:07,655
They have an end
to the game play.

837
00:42:07,786 --> 00:42:10,440
There's not quite enough memory
for the final board.

838
00:42:10,571 --> 00:42:12,617
And it's called a "kill screen"
because basically,

839
00:42:12,747 --> 00:42:14,314
there's no way
to finish the level.

840
00:42:14,444 --> 00:42:18,274
And some sort of random data,
or code, inside the program,

841
00:42:18,405 --> 00:42:20,842
ends up getting used
for what you see on the screen.

842
00:42:20,929 --> 00:42:24,542
Donkey Kong is really strange
in that it actually lets you

843
00:42:24,629 --> 00:42:26,935
play the fi... um,
the kill screen level

844
00:42:27,066 --> 00:42:29,329
for maybe five seconds or so.
Everything looks normal,

845
00:42:29,416 --> 00:42:32,027
and then, suddenly,
Mario just up and dies on you.

846
00:42:32,158 --> 00:42:37,119
The people who could get
besides myself,

847
00:42:37,250 --> 00:42:41,297
that have been seen getting
to the end of donkey Kong...

848
00:42:44,300 --> 00:42:46,738
Gee, now that I think about it,
I don't think anybody has.

849
00:43:10,152 --> 00:43:13,460
If anybody wants to see,
there's a donkey Kong
kill screen coming up.

850
00:43:13,591 --> 00:43:15,984
There's a donkey Kong
kill screen coming up

851
00:43:16,115 --> 00:43:17,812
if anybody wants to watch.

852
00:43:17,943 --> 00:43:19,442
You got to be able
to perform in the show

853
00:43:19,466 --> 00:43:20,815
with someone who's a contender

854
00:43:20,946 --> 00:43:23,122
staring straight at you,
staring at the game,

855
00:43:23,209 --> 00:43:24,863
possibly even playing mind games
with you.

856
00:43:24,993 --> 00:43:26,275
I mean, it's all...
It's part of being a champion.

857
00:43:26,299 --> 00:43:27,996
You have to overcome it.

858
00:43:28,127 --> 00:43:31,086
There's a potential donkey Kong
kill screen if you wanna watch.

859
00:43:31,217 --> 00:43:34,263
I can tell
he's not on my side.

860
00:43:34,394 --> 00:43:37,658
He's one...
He's a disciple of, uh, Billy.

861
00:43:37,789 --> 00:43:40,269
This is, uh... you know, he's
gonna have to play it perfectly.

862
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,489
He's at the hardest part
of donkey Kong.

863
00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:44,665
And, uh, you know,
it's not gonna get any easier.

864
00:43:44,796 --> 00:43:47,276
So we may have
an exciting moment here

865
00:43:47,407 --> 00:43:49,931
or, you know,
the pressure may get to him.

866
00:43:50,062 --> 00:43:51,702
One of those random elements
might happen.

867
00:43:51,759 --> 00:43:53,805
Uh, sounds like
he just cleared another board,

868
00:43:53,892 --> 00:43:56,677
but we could have a wild barrel
or some aggressive fireballs.

869
00:43:56,808 --> 00:43:59,288
I thought I was gonna be
the first funspot kill screen.

870
00:43:59,419 --> 00:44:01,813
And then, I had...
I had three fireballs trap me.

871
00:44:01,943 --> 00:44:04,076
I had the hammer in my hand.
They still got me.

872
00:44:04,206 --> 00:44:06,295
So anything can happen
in donkey Kong.

873
00:44:06,426 --> 00:44:09,081
So, uh, for someone else
to beat me to the kill screen

874
00:44:09,168 --> 00:44:10,841
would be a let down,
but let's see what happens.

875
00:44:10,865 --> 00:44:12,843
Maybe he'll... maybe he'll crack
under the pressure,

876
00:44:12,867 --> 00:44:14,956
and maybe I'll get my chance
to do it first.

877
00:44:17,611 --> 00:44:19,676
There's a donkey Kong
kill screen might be coming up,

878
00:44:19,700 --> 00:44:21,049
if anybody wants to see it.

879
00:44:21,180 --> 00:44:22,703
Hey, Todd,
if you're interested,

880
00:44:22,834 --> 00:44:24,705
there might be
a donkey Kong kill screen

881
00:44:24,836 --> 00:44:26,185
in a couple of minutes.

882
00:44:30,145 --> 00:44:34,236
Steve: I think the energy
kind of picked me up.

883
00:44:34,367 --> 00:44:36,586
I was feeling kind
of like a zombie

884
00:44:36,717 --> 00:44:38,501
in the middle of the game.

885
00:44:38,632 --> 00:44:40,503
But towards the end,
I got, you know,

886
00:44:40,634 --> 00:44:43,028
a little bit of a natural rush
going from the crowd

887
00:44:43,158 --> 00:44:44,812
and the excitement.

888
00:44:44,899 --> 00:44:46,553
So that kind of boosted me

889
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,643
and put me over the top
to complete the game.

890
00:44:54,474 --> 00:44:57,259
The kill screen.
The kill screen kicked in.

891
00:45:00,654 --> 00:45:04,092
This is
the highest donkey Kong
score done in public.

892
00:45:04,223 --> 00:45:08,401
Kuh: Um, Walter day
stated that this was
the highest score ever done,

893
00:45:08,531 --> 00:45:10,490
and this is
the first kill screen

894
00:45:10,577 --> 00:45:12,187
achieved on funspot's machine.

895
00:45:12,274 --> 00:45:14,712
Uh, Steve wiebe has become
the third person

896
00:45:14,842 --> 00:45:17,540
to reach
donkey Kong's kill screen.

897
00:45:17,671 --> 00:45:20,326
[Crowd applauding]

898
00:45:20,456 --> 00:45:24,069
Day: This is completely
hard verification.
You know what I mean?

899
00:45:24,199 --> 00:45:27,942
There's nothing stronger
than having it be done
in front of a crowd.

900
00:45:28,073 --> 00:45:30,292
The process,
it stands for itself.

901
00:45:30,423 --> 00:45:33,034
He did it in front
of all of us,
but this solves

902
00:45:33,165 --> 00:45:34,664
any kind of doubt that there
could have ever been.

903
00:45:34,688 --> 00:45:37,996
♪ ...best around,
nothing's gonna ever... ♪

904
00:45:38,126 --> 00:45:40,407
Now you'll get all the accolades
you deserve and that's...

905
00:45:40,476 --> 00:45:42,130
That's just the way it is
but, you know...

906
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:45,917
So it's good.

907
00:45:46,047 --> 00:45:47,416
Kuh: And I guess
there was kind of like

908
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,659
an impromptu press conference
after the...

909
00:45:49,790 --> 00:45:51,661
After the score happened.

910
00:45:51,792 --> 00:45:53,552
There were, you know...
There were cameras
on the game.

911
00:45:53,576 --> 00:45:55,448
There were cameras
on Steve wiebe.

912
00:45:55,535 --> 00:45:58,103
There were cameras
on the crowd
looking at Steve wiebe.

913
00:45:58,190 --> 00:46:00,453
I didn't get an exact count
of the people.

914
00:46:00,583 --> 00:46:02,344
There were a lot of other
witnesses in the crowd

915
00:46:02,368 --> 00:46:04,283
and people watchin' it,
so, you know,

916
00:46:04,413 --> 00:46:08,287
we have a verified
score on a legitimate
donkey Kong machine

917
00:46:08,374 --> 00:46:09,374
for Steve wiebe now.

918
00:46:12,421 --> 00:46:14,032
We just got off
the Internet,

919
00:46:14,162 --> 00:46:17,035
where I logged on the front page
of the twin galaxies web site

920
00:46:17,165 --> 00:46:21,779
the news story that Steve wiebe
just scored 985,600 points,

921
00:46:21,909 --> 00:46:23,452
which, essentially,
is the officially recognized

922
00:46:23,476 --> 00:46:26,000
first place score
on the web site.

923
00:46:26,087 --> 00:46:28,524
So he's been announced
as the world champion.

924
00:46:28,611 --> 00:46:34,269
We'll see what happens now
with Steve putting the pressure
back on Billy Mitchell.

925
00:46:34,400 --> 00:46:36,228
Kuh: Thank you.

926
00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:38,534
I think it
hit him pretty hard.

927
00:46:38,665 --> 00:46:39,579
Thank you
for volunteering your phone.

928
00:46:39,666 --> 00:46:40,906
This was
an important call to...

929
00:46:40,972 --> 00:46:43,452
Man: Oh, no, no.
I understand that.

930
00:46:43,583 --> 00:46:45,106
Yeah, I can imagine.

931
00:46:45,237 --> 00:46:47,413
He probably
wasn't real thrilled.

932
00:46:47,543 --> 00:46:49,632
Kuh: Yeah, he said,
now his playing out the tape

933
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:52,611
that he submitted is more
important, uh... more important
than ever, I guess.

934
00:46:52,635 --> 00:46:55,595
Don't share that with
anybody.Man: No... I... well, obviously.

935
00:46:59,817 --> 00:47:02,341
We've got everybody
on the invitation-only list.

936
00:47:02,471 --> 00:47:05,039
And, uh, you know what?
Walter is here.

937
00:47:05,170 --> 00:47:07,563
We're just kind of, you know,
tellin' jokes and havin' fun.

938
00:47:07,694 --> 00:47:10,915
- Um, who's there?
Like Todd and Duane?
- Yeah.

939
00:47:11,002 --> 00:47:14,353
What I mean is,
it's probably a good idea,
like, if I say hi to Todd?

940
00:47:14,483 --> 00:47:16,940
Actually, would you believe
he's in the middle
of a... of a lady bug game.

941
00:47:16,964 --> 00:47:18,705
I don't think
we wanna interrupt.

942
00:47:18,836 --> 00:47:20,881
We have a lady bug cabaret
in the cabin,

943
00:47:21,012 --> 00:47:23,579
and Todd's got
a score going.

944
00:47:23,666 --> 00:47:25,755
Okay, we're gonna get Walter
on the phone.

945
00:47:25,886 --> 00:47:28,715
Man: Um,
a couple of hours ago,
we were all up at funspot,

946
00:47:28,802 --> 00:47:31,109
and, uh, Brian kuh said

947
00:47:31,196 --> 00:47:34,460
that Billy, um, had a delivery
for us here at the cabin.

948
00:47:34,590 --> 00:47:36,331
Crowd: Oh!

949
00:47:37,376 --> 00:47:38,899
Brian kuh, he's kind of like...

950
00:47:39,030 --> 00:47:40,268
He's kinda like
really good friends with Billy.

951
00:47:40,292 --> 00:47:41,946
He talks to him
all the time.

952
00:47:42,076 --> 00:47:45,645
Um, he said everybody is gonna
wanna see what's on the tape.

953
00:47:46,820 --> 00:47:49,344
Brian kuh is there?

954
00:47:49,475 --> 00:47:51,912
He knows everything to do
with the tape.

955
00:47:52,043 --> 00:47:54,697
He knows to guard the tape
with his life.

956
00:47:54,828 --> 00:47:56,221
I explained to him.

957
00:47:56,351 --> 00:47:59,093
He could lose his life,
but don't lose the tape.

958
00:48:00,486 --> 00:48:03,402
Day: Who wants to hear
the announcement?

959
00:48:03,532 --> 00:48:06,753
So even in Florida,
the long arm of Billy Mitchell

960
00:48:06,884 --> 00:48:09,321
has reached in here
to funspot seven

961
00:48:09,451 --> 00:48:11,845
to cause
more interesting developments.

962
00:48:11,976 --> 00:48:15,457
Now, we're gonna start
on this TV screen
the videotape

963
00:48:15,544 --> 00:48:18,417
and, essentially,
if Steve wiebe or Brian kuh

964
00:48:18,547 --> 00:48:21,855
or anybody else can also beat
the score on that tape

965
00:48:21,986 --> 00:48:24,249
by about 4:00
tomorrow afternoon,

966
00:48:24,379 --> 00:48:27,600
he'll give them $10,000, okay?

967
00:48:27,730 --> 00:48:30,820
And we know Billy Mitchell can
pay these promises, too, okay?

968
00:48:30,951 --> 00:48:34,476
Steve: So he has it
while I'm tryin'
to get a million live.

969
00:48:34,607 --> 00:48:39,046
He has it set out
so people, you know, at funspot

970
00:48:39,177 --> 00:48:44,486
can gather around
and... and look at his tape.

971
00:48:44,617 --> 00:48:46,697
Kuh: Okay, here we are.
We got cameras on the screen,

972
00:48:46,749 --> 00:48:47,749
cameras on the crowd.

973
00:48:47,794 --> 00:48:49,100
No one's gonna miss this moment.

974
00:48:49,230 --> 00:48:50,928
998,2.

975
00:48:52,059 --> 00:48:53,843
Here we go.

976
00:48:53,974 --> 00:48:58,761
We have every eye in the crowd
focused right on your screen.

977
00:48:58,892 --> 00:49:01,634
Everybody is lookin',
every camera's on here.

978
00:49:01,764 --> 00:49:03,723
We're not gonna miss this
for anything.

979
00:49:07,553 --> 00:49:08,878
I don't think
there's any distraction

980
00:49:08,902 --> 00:49:10,599
that can pull everyone away
right now.

981
00:49:13,341 --> 00:49:14,908
Oh, and look at that.

982
00:49:15,039 --> 00:49:17,234
And with the bonus, we have
the first million point game

983
00:49:17,258 --> 00:49:18,607
of donkey Kong.

984
00:49:18,738 --> 00:49:20,392
And the score...
And the score reads zero.

985
00:49:20,522 --> 00:49:22,611
Six zeroes
all the way across.

986
00:49:22,742 --> 00:49:24,874
[Crowd applauding]

987
00:49:28,617 --> 00:49:32,230
Not even Helen of Troy had
that much... much attention.

988
00:49:32,360 --> 00:49:36,799
Steve:
Billy kinda steal the show,
and he's not even there.

989
00:49:36,930 --> 00:49:41,587
It's kinda the way
they, you know,

990
00:49:41,717 --> 00:49:45,156
were kind of diffusing
what I was going for, you know,

991
00:49:45,286 --> 00:49:48,681
in hyping up Billy's,
you know, videotape.

992
00:49:51,510 --> 00:49:54,817
Day: 1,047,200 points

993
00:49:54,948 --> 00:49:56,508
is the highest score
any have ever seen.

994
00:49:56,558 --> 00:49:58,580
I don't know. I suppose Walter's
got to get in that office

995
00:49:58,604 --> 00:50:00,823
to that computer now,
doesn't he?

996
00:50:02,173 --> 00:50:04,001
Okay, um, go ahead and, uh...

997
00:50:04,131 --> 00:50:06,003
Go ahead and hand Walter
the phone real quick.

998
00:50:06,133 --> 00:50:07,439
Hi, Billy.

999
00:50:07,569 --> 00:50:10,007
Pretty good.
It's all been wonderful.

1000
00:50:10,094 --> 00:50:12,096
Billy's probably
the closest person

1001
00:50:12,183 --> 00:50:13,749
to being a jedi
of any of the players,

1002
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,927
and he refers to it with humor
as "Obi-Wan Kenobi-ing" people.

1003
00:50:30,375 --> 00:50:32,116
Steve wiebe
not having the opportunity

1004
00:50:32,246 --> 00:50:34,248
to view anything
that bill Mitchell does.

1005
00:50:34,379 --> 00:50:36,859
I mean, bill Mitchell plays
at a great advantage.

1006
00:50:36,990 --> 00:50:38,513
When Billy Mitchell
is watching

1007
00:50:38,644 --> 00:50:42,213
Steve's world-record
winning tapes,

1008
00:50:42,343 --> 00:50:44,389
he's in a position
to study Steve's technique.

1009
00:50:44,519 --> 00:50:46,149
When the man says,
"I wanna see your papers,"

1010
00:50:46,173 --> 00:50:47,348
and Obi-Wan Kenobi goes,

1011
00:50:47,479 --> 00:50:49,046
"you don't need
to see our papers,"

1012
00:50:49,176 --> 00:50:50,632
and suddenly the guy says,
"you can go.

1013
00:50:50,656 --> 00:50:51,936
I don't need
to see your papers."

1014
00:51:03,451 --> 00:51:05,366
Man: You saw the tape,
which is no doubt a copy

1015
00:51:05,497 --> 00:51:07,368
because I'm sure
he didn't send the master.

1016
00:51:07,499 --> 00:51:12,852
He's gonna send a copy
or the master to Rob mrcuzek,

1017
00:51:12,982 --> 00:51:16,334
who is the chief referee
of twin galaxies.

1018
00:51:16,464 --> 00:51:19,728
I try to promote twin galaxies
as "integrity above all."

1019
00:51:19,859 --> 00:51:23,732
Um, I will do that
with my dying breath.

1020
00:51:23,863 --> 00:51:29,260
And if a gamer knowingly cheats
or tries to put one past us,

1021
00:51:29,390 --> 00:51:32,393
we will make sure that the score
is not recognized.

1022
00:51:32,524 --> 00:51:34,221
Robert...

1023
00:51:43,796 --> 00:51:45,363
Did the gamer pause at any time?

1024
00:51:45,493 --> 00:51:47,800
Illegal glitches
or glitch abuse.

1025
00:51:58,419 --> 00:51:59,638
Did they cheat?

1026
00:51:59,725 --> 00:52:01,901
Did they pause the game
after the load-up

1027
00:52:02,031 --> 00:52:04,512
for the purpose
of using a flying erase head

1028
00:52:04,599 --> 00:52:06,399
to then reload the game
at different settings?

1029
00:52:06,471 --> 00:52:08,037
I gotta look for things
like that.

1030
00:52:08,125 --> 00:52:11,040
This tape may be done
in a week, week and a half,

1031
00:52:11,171 --> 00:52:12,172
to answer your question.

1032
00:52:20,137 --> 00:52:23,096
All these wonderful games
are fixed to the left.

1033
00:52:23,183 --> 00:52:25,490
Walter is entering this
into the Internet
as we speak.

1034
00:52:25,620 --> 00:52:27,340
Day: Well, Billy Mitchell
is being upgraded.

1035
00:52:27,448 --> 00:52:29,233
We're officially submitting
his score.

1036
00:52:29,363 --> 00:52:33,237
Kuh: Oh, 1,047,000
and how much, Billy?

1037
00:52:33,324 --> 00:52:34,847
Was it 200 or 300?Two hundred.

1038
00:52:34,977 --> 00:52:36,153
That's what I thought.

1039
00:53:00,525 --> 00:53:02,091
Right on the barrels, yeah.

1040
00:53:02,179 --> 00:53:05,269
Steve: It's kind of ironic
that he went...

1041
00:53:05,399 --> 00:53:09,186
He was a guy that pushed
for live scores all the time.

1042
00:53:09,273 --> 00:53:13,668
And now here I am at funspot
busting my ass
to get a live score

1043
00:53:13,799 --> 00:53:17,063
and he just submits
taped scores now
and then gets the record.

1044
00:53:17,194 --> 00:53:19,065
[Phone ringing]

1045
00:53:23,069 --> 00:53:25,724
[Sighs] World record
headquarters. Can I help you?

1046
00:53:25,854 --> 00:53:29,771
Nicole:
If this score, this "donkey
Kong" defines Billy Mitchell,

1047
00:53:29,902 --> 00:53:32,948
then why could he not find time
in his life to go to funspot?

1048
00:53:33,079 --> 00:53:34,820
Steve did.
Steve has a job.

1049
00:53:34,950 --> 00:53:36,145
Steve has a family.
Steve has kids.

1050
00:53:36,169 --> 00:53:38,127
He went. Why can't Billy?

1051
00:53:38,258 --> 00:53:42,741
Thompson: I think he feels
that pressure to, um,

1052
00:53:42,871 --> 00:53:46,179
to meet people's
expectations of him,

1053
00:53:46,310 --> 00:53:48,964
and he puts a lot of pressure
on himself,

1054
00:53:49,095 --> 00:53:50,227
and if he doesn't succeed,

1055
00:53:50,357 --> 00:53:52,881
I think he feels
like he's failed them.

1056
00:53:52,968 --> 00:53:55,580
And he feels that deeply,
I think.

1057
00:54:01,107 --> 00:54:04,937
Steve:
If I were to break a million,
he wanted to maybe show that,

1058
00:54:05,067 --> 00:54:06,678
you know, I've already done it

1059
00:54:06,808 --> 00:54:09,550
because no one knows
that I've done it, too.

1060
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,608
[Drums playing]

1061
00:54:28,569 --> 00:54:32,660
Steve: I haven't really thought
too much about, um...

1062
00:54:32,791 --> 00:54:34,575
You know, the... the controversy.

1063
00:54:34,706 --> 00:54:37,066
I've kind of let it go since
i, you know, I went to funspot,

1064
00:54:37,186 --> 00:54:39,928
did... did my best.
Got my score up.

1065
00:54:40,059 --> 00:54:41,459
I've been killing myself
for like...

1066
00:54:41,582 --> 00:54:44,019
With school 12 to 14 hours,

1067
00:54:44,150 --> 00:54:48,720
prepping three classes
and grading... every...
Every day after school.

1068
00:54:48,850 --> 00:54:49,850
Almost there till eight.

1069
00:54:52,854 --> 00:54:56,597
Day: A lot of my songs
are like big rock songs,

1070
00:54:56,728 --> 00:55:00,949
with lots of guitars in them,
lots of layers of vocals.

1071
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:03,363
Here's one called "three lies."
I'm gonna sing this to you guys

1072
00:55:03,387 --> 00:55:06,955
in the midst
of this cold summer day.

1073
00:55:07,086 --> 00:55:09,175
This is who I really am.

1074
00:55:09,306 --> 00:55:11,066
I'm some guy out there
who's supposed to be an artist,

1075
00:55:11,090 --> 00:55:13,048
who's up there
just getting wild and crazy.

1076
00:55:13,222 --> 00:55:15,181
♪ Didn't I tell you ♪

1077
00:55:15,355 --> 00:55:17,052
♪ you, you, you, you ♪

1078
00:55:17,226 --> 00:55:20,317
♪ never not to love ♪

1079
00:55:20,404 --> 00:55:22,797
'Cause I'm being...
I'm being Mr. Scorekeeper,

1080
00:55:22,884 --> 00:55:24,451
and I've been doing it
for 25 years,

1081
00:55:24,582 --> 00:55:26,627
so there's all these
automaton things I can turn on.

1082
00:55:26,758 --> 00:55:28,673
"Okay. Yes.
And the reason for this is that

1083
00:55:28,803 --> 00:55:30,283
and that the reason for that
is this,"

1084
00:55:30,327 --> 00:55:32,154
now i'm... you know,
I'm ready to...

1085
00:55:32,285 --> 00:55:33,808
I'm ready to let it go.

1086
00:55:33,982 --> 00:55:36,376
♪ Two lies are more
than plenty ♪

1087
00:55:36,463 --> 00:55:39,901
♪ but three lies,
I'll probably be saying ♪

1088
00:55:39,988 --> 00:55:41,555
♪ goodbye, love ♪

1089
00:55:41,686 --> 00:55:43,446
No matter how many people
get involved in this,

1090
00:55:43,470 --> 00:55:45,124
it's still my child,
'cause it came

1091
00:55:45,211 --> 00:55:46,995
right out of my psyche,
you know.

1092
00:55:47,126 --> 00:55:50,347
But still, the others
are more attached to it,

1093
00:55:50,434 --> 00:55:52,436
and they believe
they need it more.

1094
00:55:52,523 --> 00:55:54,873
Part of the reason
I'm still here doing it

1095
00:55:55,003 --> 00:55:59,530
is for them to help them
have the benefit of this,

1096
00:55:59,660 --> 00:56:01,183
or the happiness of this,

1097
00:56:01,314 --> 00:56:03,447
so that it can go on
and continue to benefit people.

1098
00:56:03,577 --> 00:56:04,796
Because it's
in such a place

1099
00:56:04,926 --> 00:56:07,625
that I don't have
to do twin galaxies,

1100
00:56:07,755 --> 00:56:11,106
but I really would like
to see it have closure
that's positive.

1101
00:56:11,237 --> 00:56:15,197
Boy, I got cold fingers.
It's cold.

1102
00:56:17,983 --> 00:56:20,159
I often have people ask me
what my handle is,

1103
00:56:20,289 --> 00:56:22,509
what my three initials are.

1104
00:56:22,640 --> 00:56:27,732
I mean, come on.
I tell people, "look at me."

1105
00:56:27,862 --> 00:56:29,995
What do you think
my three initials were?

1106
00:56:32,563 --> 00:56:34,565
If you don't know,
you're not looking hard enough.

1107
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:37,568
Man 1: T.I.E.?

1108
00:56:37,698 --> 00:56:38,873
No.

1109
00:56:39,004 --> 00:56:40,788
Which one
was I wearing yesterday?

1110
00:56:40,919 --> 00:56:42,660
Man 1: The america... man 2: U.S.A.

1111
00:56:42,790 --> 00:56:46,664
U.s.a. So I had Latin friends
and I had Canadian friends,

1112
00:56:46,794 --> 00:56:49,623
and I always had
to keep the Americans on top.

1113
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,540
[Beep]

1114
00:56:53,671 --> 00:56:55,499
Man: Hello.
This is a message for Walter.

1115
00:56:55,629 --> 00:56:58,197
This is Craig glenday calling
from guinness world records.

1116
00:56:58,327 --> 00:56:59,633
Guinness from england called.

1117
00:56:59,764 --> 00:57:01,045
They want me
to call them back immediately.

1118
00:57:01,069 --> 00:57:03,507
[Ringing]

1119
00:57:03,594 --> 00:57:05,117
Hello. Craig speaking.

1120
00:57:05,247 --> 00:57:07,859
Craig, this is Walter day
with twin galaxies. How are you?

1121
00:57:07,989 --> 00:57:10,509
They're announcing to the world
that they trust everything we do

1122
00:57:10,601 --> 00:57:12,081
and that they rely
on everything we do

1123
00:57:12,167 --> 00:57:14,953
as being true and honest,
and so that's why

1124
00:57:15,083 --> 00:57:17,782
they're going with us
as the official scorekeepers

1125
00:57:17,912 --> 00:57:20,611
and providers
of electronic gaming content

1126
00:57:20,741 --> 00:57:21,873
for their upcoming books.

1127
00:57:22,003 --> 00:57:23,614
It's become very complicated.

1128
00:57:23,744 --> 00:57:25,424
So to have someone like Walter
and his team

1129
00:57:25,485 --> 00:57:27,313
who just know everything
there is to know

1130
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,012
about computer games,
um, was for us a godsend.

1131
00:57:31,143 --> 00:57:33,058
Since older people
also read your book,

1132
00:57:33,188 --> 00:57:34,755
a certain number
of people would care

1133
00:57:34,886 --> 00:57:37,279
what the world record
is on donkey Kong.

1134
00:57:37,410 --> 00:57:40,631
We look forward
to being part of guinness.

1135
00:57:40,761 --> 00:57:42,391
Yeah, yeah. It's just
an, uh, reward to be here,

1136
00:57:42,415 --> 00:57:44,069
you know, working
with twin galaxies.

1137
00:57:44,199 --> 00:57:46,419
You just recorded a big piece
of twin galaxies' history,

1138
00:57:46,550 --> 00:57:48,552
you know?
You saw what it said.

1139
00:57:48,682 --> 00:57:50,747
They're announcing to the world
we're the official scorekeepers

1140
00:57:50,771 --> 00:57:53,034
and people have
to be verified by us.

1141
00:57:53,165 --> 00:57:55,907
Wait until you see
the poster upstairs I just did

1142
00:57:56,037 --> 00:57:57,822
to turn the process
of submitting to guinness

1143
00:57:57,952 --> 00:57:59,388
into a contest.

1144
00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:02,130
When you wanna put a score up

1145
00:58:02,217 --> 00:58:05,438
and you wanna have
a title of world champion,

1146
00:58:05,569 --> 00:58:07,745
you're competing against
everybody in the world.

1147
00:58:07,875 --> 00:58:10,704
You want a title
for your own living room?

1148
00:58:10,835 --> 00:58:13,620
Man, I'll send you that title.
Your own arcade?

1149
00:58:13,751 --> 00:58:15,622
Man, I'll sign it,
and I'll make up a paper

1150
00:58:15,709 --> 00:58:17,363
and I'll send you a plaque.

1151
00:58:17,494 --> 00:58:19,080
You want your name in the
guinness book of world records

1152
00:58:19,104 --> 00:58:21,498
and in the twin galaxies
international scoreboard?

1153
00:58:21,628 --> 00:58:24,675
You have to earn it.
I have to earn it.

1154
00:58:24,762 --> 00:58:27,895
There's a lot of scores
I've gotten.

1155
00:58:28,026 --> 00:58:30,724
And when the time comes
and the pressure is that hard,

1156
00:58:30,811 --> 00:58:33,988
I'll have to do it in a public
forum, as I always have.

1157
00:58:34,075 --> 00:58:36,556
[Man speaking]

1158
00:58:45,217 --> 00:58:46,523
Is that truthful?

1159
00:58:50,178 --> 00:58:54,400
Is that true?
Then we better
get practicing.

1160
00:58:57,403 --> 00:59:00,406
Steve:
The only thing to do is to...

1161
00:59:00,537 --> 00:59:03,670
Yeah, go somewhere
and break 1,000,047 live.

1162
00:59:03,801 --> 00:59:07,674
And that would be the only way
to do it for sure, you know?

1163
00:59:07,805 --> 00:59:10,547
There would be
no gettin' screwed over.

1164
00:59:10,677 --> 00:59:13,593
I've got kicked around
like the dog for so long,

1165
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,553
I don't trust referees.

1166
00:59:16,683 --> 00:59:18,293
This is the contest
that gets them

1167
00:59:18,380 --> 00:59:20,208
into the guinness book
of world records,

1168
00:59:20,339 --> 00:59:21,906
so they would have
that inspiration.

1169
00:59:22,036 --> 00:59:24,082
But as far as my skills, i'm...

1170
00:59:24,212 --> 00:59:26,606
Yeah, I'm feeling
on the top of my game.

1171
00:59:26,737 --> 00:59:28,826
And I'd love to see bill
defend his title

1172
00:59:28,956 --> 00:59:30,567
against Steve weibe,
head-to-head.

1173
00:59:30,654 --> 00:59:33,482
That'd be great. It's all about
head-to-head competition.

1174
00:59:33,613 --> 00:59:35,659
He's kind of one of
my tougher students, he goes,

1175
00:59:35,789 --> 00:59:39,053
"yeah. When are you gonna go
kick that guy's ass?"

1176
00:59:39,140 --> 00:59:40,881
And I go, "watch your language."

1177
00:59:41,012 --> 00:59:44,363
And I go,
"I'm gonna do it here soon."

1178
00:59:44,493 --> 00:59:47,671
And if someone is going to break
a classic arcade game record,

1179
00:59:47,801 --> 00:59:50,021
they're gonna have
to come prepared.

1180
00:59:50,151 --> 00:59:51,805
Maybe that's what I need.

1181
00:59:51,936 --> 00:59:55,243
So I can be at my best,
have him there.

1182
00:59:55,417 --> 00:59:58,507
♪ Don't lose your grip
on the dreams of the past ♪

1183
00:59:58,595 --> 01:00:01,467
♪ you must fight
just to keep them alive ♪

1184
01:00:01,598 --> 01:00:02,792
I was hoping Billy
would be there

1185
01:00:02,816 --> 01:00:05,036
so we could compete
head-to-head.

1186
01:00:05,166 --> 01:00:09,562
He's been... always an advocate
of live scores, live scores.

1187
01:00:09,693 --> 01:00:12,478
But now, he's all of a sudden
Mr. Videotape.

1188
01:00:12,609 --> 01:00:17,135
It just... I mean, I know to win
is, like, so important.

1189
01:00:17,265 --> 01:00:20,791
But to blatantly do things
that are against the rules

1190
01:00:20,921 --> 01:00:23,532
and know in your heart
that you didn't do it correctly

1191
01:00:23,663 --> 01:00:25,317
and get credit for it...

1192
01:00:27,493 --> 01:00:30,409
We know what kind of...
Is there any satisfaction there?

1193
01:00:30,539 --> 01:00:32,193
I don't see...
I don't see any.

1194
01:00:48,557 --> 01:00:50,168
I just need one favor from you.

1195
01:00:50,298 --> 01:00:54,128
I know it's... of all
you've done for me, I just...

1196
01:00:54,259 --> 01:00:56,435
Give me a shot at it
without you, you know,

1197
01:00:56,565 --> 01:00:58,176
kind of, bein' my backbone.

1198
01:00:58,306 --> 01:01:01,527
I need to, kind of,
attack it by myself.

1199
01:01:01,658 --> 01:01:06,445
It says, "good luck, Steve,
in donkey Kong."

1200
01:01:06,575 --> 01:01:07,707
All right.Knock 'em dead.

1201
01:01:07,794 --> 01:01:08,882
I will.
You will.

1202
01:01:11,276 --> 01:01:13,974
Derek: "Work is for people
who can't play video games.

1203
01:01:14,061 --> 01:01:15,541
Billy Mitchell."That's right.

1204
01:01:15,672 --> 01:01:20,633
Out of the entire global
classic gaming hobby,

1205
01:01:20,764 --> 01:01:22,766
there's one significant rivalry

1206
01:01:22,853 --> 01:01:25,899
that's equivalent
to the big rivalries in history:

1207
01:01:25,986 --> 01:01:30,425
Yankees/red sox, maris/mantle,
heckle and jeckle.

1208
01:01:30,556 --> 01:01:33,080
All the big rivalries
of history, you know.

1209
01:01:33,211 --> 01:01:34,865
This is up there
on that level.

1210
01:01:34,952 --> 01:01:39,260
So Billy Mitchell and Steve
wiebe are going for the top spot

1211
01:01:39,347 --> 01:01:42,524
in the forthcoming book
of world records on donkey Kong.

1212
01:01:42,655 --> 01:01:45,527
Hello, Billy.
This is Steve wiebe.

1213
01:01:45,658 --> 01:01:47,573
I really think
we need to settle this thing.

1214
01:01:47,704 --> 01:01:49,227
May the best man win.

1215
01:01:49,314 --> 01:01:51,925
So we'll be seein' you
next week.

1216
01:01:52,056 --> 01:01:53,296
He knows I'm going to be there.

1217
01:01:53,361 --> 01:01:55,233
It's just a skip away.

1218
01:01:55,363 --> 01:01:58,410
A hop, skip, and a jog
from his house, so...

1219
01:01:58,540 --> 01:02:01,065
There's really no excuse for him
not to be there.

1220
01:02:01,195 --> 01:02:03,937
Never leave home
without it:

1221
01:02:04,068 --> 01:02:06,548
"How to win
at donkey Kong."

1222
01:02:06,679 --> 01:02:08,550
Yeah, so...

1223
01:02:08,681 --> 01:02:10,901
[Girl speaking]

1224
01:02:14,513 --> 01:02:17,690
The guinness...
A lot of people are...

1225
01:02:17,821 --> 01:02:19,661
Yeah, people...
A lot of people read that book.

1226
01:02:48,808 --> 01:02:51,245
This is actually, technically,
a weightlifting glove

1227
01:02:51,376 --> 01:02:53,857
because I discovered
in the eighties
that you could buy

1228
01:02:53,987 --> 01:02:56,250
a weightlifting glove
which was fingerless,

1229
01:02:56,337 --> 01:02:58,377
and I use it to... I used it
to play marble madness.

1230
01:02:58,426 --> 01:02:59,950
See the double padding?

1231
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:02,343
Occasionally, I use this
to avoid calluses

1232
01:03:02,474 --> 01:03:04,345
from certain joystick games.

1233
01:03:04,432 --> 01:03:06,783
You can do marble madness,
a track ball all day long.

1234
01:03:23,408 --> 01:03:25,368
Excuse me, guy. I got
a celebrity in the car here.

1235
01:03:25,453 --> 01:03:28,065
Can I cut in front of
you? Man: Oh, I'm sorry...

1236
01:03:32,591 --> 01:03:35,768
Day: Did you get dropped
off? I got dropped off.

1237
01:03:35,899 --> 01:03:38,118
Was Billy driving? Billy was driving.

1238
01:03:41,208 --> 01:03:44,516
Well, anyway, welcome
to the dodge city
of video games.

1239
01:03:44,646 --> 01:03:46,213
Thank you, Walter.
Happy to be here.

1240
01:03:46,300 --> 01:03:48,433
Derek: I want this.

1241
01:03:48,563 --> 01:03:50,043
I'll get you some
out of there.

1242
01:04:01,968 --> 01:04:03,665
[Video game sounds]

1243
01:04:03,752 --> 01:04:05,189
What do you need?

1244
01:04:05,276 --> 01:04:07,626
In order: 693,500...

1245
01:04:11,238 --> 01:04:12,238
Okay.

1246
01:04:14,415 --> 01:04:15,415
[Chuckles] Yeah.

1247
01:04:31,128 --> 01:04:32,564
[Speaking]

1248
01:04:32,694 --> 01:04:34,653
Yeah. Nicole.

1249
01:04:34,783 --> 01:04:36,960
Hi. I'm Nicole.

1250
01:04:37,090 --> 01:04:39,136
And this is
little Derek, huh?

1251
01:04:39,266 --> 01:04:40,528
Steve: Yeah.

1252
01:04:42,139 --> 01:04:44,881
The faster, yeah.Derek, he's about...

1253
01:04:47,318 --> 01:04:48,972
Nicole:
I'm afraid if he can't do it,

1254
01:04:49,102 --> 01:04:51,626
he's gonna beat himself up
about it.

1255
01:04:51,757 --> 01:04:55,152
I don't know
if that's the forum
in which he will be successful.

1256
01:04:55,282 --> 01:04:56,651
I mean,
I know he can be successful.

1257
01:04:56,675 --> 01:04:58,807
I'm just afraid,
what if it doesn't happen?

1258
01:04:58,938 --> 01:05:00,679
Bye, Derek.Derek, give daddy a hug.

1259
01:05:00,809 --> 01:05:02,289
Derek:
What are you guys gonna do?

1260
01:05:02,420 --> 01:05:04,857
Girl: We're just
gonna go home.Derek: Go swimming.

1261
01:05:04,944 --> 01:05:06,356
You gonna go swimming?
That sounds fun.

1262
01:05:06,380 --> 01:05:07,729
Okay. Let's go.

1263
01:05:07,816 --> 01:05:09,209
Bye.
I love you.

1264
01:05:10,645 --> 01:05:13,083
Bye. Thank you.

1265
01:05:14,693 --> 01:05:17,870
Yeah, the longer I wait,
the more, you know,

1266
01:05:18,001 --> 01:05:20,481
pressing, I, you know,
I get more nervous.

1267
01:05:20,612 --> 01:05:22,962
So if I do it
the first night,
it'll be great.

1268
01:05:23,093 --> 01:05:26,052
Day:
Steve wiebe is a trouper.

1269
01:05:26,183 --> 01:05:28,315
Steve wiebe has come
to three events

1270
01:05:28,446 --> 01:05:32,580
to prove himself in the fire
of in-person competition

1271
01:05:32,711 --> 01:05:36,367
and under the stress
of having all eyes on him.

1272
01:05:52,383 --> 01:05:53,514
Oh!

1273
01:05:57,214 --> 01:05:58,258
[Speaking]

1274
01:05:58,389 --> 01:05:59,564
Yeah.

1275
01:06:04,047 --> 01:06:06,005
Yeah.

1276
01:06:06,136 --> 01:06:07,330
Was it "weeb"
or "weebee"?
"Weebee."

1277
01:06:07,354 --> 01:06:08,877
That's all right.
Sorry.

1278
01:06:09,008 --> 01:06:11,054
Well, most twin galaxies
call me "weeb," so... okay.

1279
01:06:11,184 --> 01:06:12,466
And that's a common mistake.Is it?

1280
01:06:12,490 --> 01:06:13,795
Either that or "wibe."

1281
01:06:13,926 --> 01:06:15,806
But at least, you got
the correct pronunciation.

1282
01:06:15,928 --> 01:06:17,036
Steve wiebe is
who I wanted to be

1283
01:06:17,060 --> 01:06:18,670
when I grew up
playing donkey Kong.

1284
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:19,801
He's quite the player.

1285
01:06:22,108 --> 01:06:26,460
♪ Everybody knows
that the dice are loaded ♪

1286
01:06:26,634 --> 01:06:30,856
♪ everybody rolls
with their fingers crossed ♪

1287
01:06:31,030 --> 01:06:35,556
♪ everybody knows
the war is over ♪

1288
01:06:35,643 --> 01:06:39,996
♪ everybody knows
the good guys lost ♪

1289
01:06:40,170 --> 01:06:44,565
♪ everybody knows
the fight was fixed ♪

1290
01:06:44,739 --> 01:06:46,828
♪ the poor stay poor ♪

1291
01:06:47,003 --> 01:06:49,092
♪ the rich get rich ♪

1292
01:06:49,179 --> 01:06:54,010
♪ that's how it goes

1293
01:06:54,184 --> 01:06:56,055
♪ everybody knows ♪

1294
01:07:12,115 --> 01:07:13,555
Well, maybe they'd like it
if I lose.

1295
01:07:13,594 --> 01:07:16,684
I got to try losing some time.

1296
01:07:16,815 --> 01:07:19,383
Oh, I can break a million.
I've done it.

1297
01:07:19,470 --> 01:07:22,342
I've been on pace...
Two games I got to 850.

1298
01:07:22,473 --> 01:07:27,608
I thought I was gonna do it,
and I just got...
Just in a bind.

1299
01:07:27,782 --> 01:07:29,001
♪ Is leaking ♪

1300
01:07:29,175 --> 01:07:33,571
♪ everybody knows
the captain lied ♪

1301
01:07:33,658 --> 01:07:38,358
♪ everybody got
this broken feelin' ♪

1302
01:07:38,532 --> 01:07:42,797
♪ like their father
or their dog just died ♪

1303
01:07:43,885 --> 01:07:45,887
Does this have my name
on the back or something?

1304
01:07:46,018 --> 01:07:47,585
Man: What does it say?

1305
01:07:47,715 --> 01:07:51,328
[Sighs] It says, "you have
a yearning for perfection."

1306
01:07:54,157 --> 01:07:57,073
Because he's
in, um, his own business,

1307
01:07:57,203 --> 01:07:58,726
it's very flexible for him.

1308
01:07:58,857 --> 01:08:01,903
He can go over to the school
for events.

1309
01:08:01,990 --> 01:08:03,670
He was at an easter egg hunt
the other day.

1310
01:08:03,731 --> 01:08:05,579
'Cause he'll... he'll come
in the office someday

1311
01:08:05,603 --> 01:08:08,432
and they'll say, "geez,
where is Billy today?"
"Billy's not here."

1312
01:08:08,562 --> 01:08:11,913
I told him last night
that he had to come,

1313
01:08:12,000 --> 01:08:14,090
that there's no reason for him
not to be here.

1314
01:08:14,220 --> 01:08:16,309
He says, "I have 15 reasons
why I can't come."

1315
01:08:16,396 --> 01:08:18,505
I said, "they're all b.S."
This is after 1:30
in the morning.

1316
01:08:18,529 --> 01:08:20,202
I said, "they're all b.S.
'Cause I have 15 reasons

1317
01:08:20,226 --> 01:08:21,793
why you have
to be here tomorrow."

1318
01:08:21,923 --> 01:08:23,969
He had a chance to play him
in funspot this year.

1319
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:26,145
He had a chance to play him
in pompano beach.

1320
01:08:26,276 --> 01:08:30,323
He had a chance to play him
at California extreme.

1321
01:08:30,454 --> 01:08:32,586
That's three of 'em
I can think of right there.

1322
01:08:32,717 --> 01:08:34,762
Man: Why wouldn't
he play against Steve?

1323
01:08:34,893 --> 01:08:36,677
'Cause he's afraid
he's gonna lose.

1324
01:08:36,808 --> 01:08:41,465
Steve: I traveled 3,000 miles
to give myself a chance

1325
01:08:41,595 --> 01:08:43,597
to get the world record
and be in guinness.

1326
01:08:43,728 --> 01:08:47,993
I hope he can, at least,
come 10 miles

1327
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:50,691
and put his game on the line,
so you make the call.

1328
01:08:50,778 --> 01:08:52,519
Where are you?

1329
01:08:54,739 --> 01:08:56,567
All right, well, we're,
like, we're all here.

1330
01:08:56,697 --> 01:08:59,265
We're all seated and getting
ready to order, so...

1331
01:09:01,572 --> 01:09:03,574
Um, okay, let me go down
the list here.

1332
01:09:03,704 --> 01:09:06,142
We got Tom Rogers
and his girl.

1333
01:09:06,229 --> 01:09:08,970
We got Shawn, Fran,
Jason, and...

1334
01:09:27,032 --> 01:09:28,152
Woman:
That's fair, isn't it?

1335
01:09:34,387 --> 01:09:35,910
Okay.

1336
01:09:40,263 --> 01:09:42,395
Man: I'm real sorry he's not...
He didn't come.

1337
01:09:42,526 --> 01:09:43,788
Bill?
Yeah.

1338
01:09:43,918 --> 01:09:48,445
Well, you know,
Mark and Steve showed up

1339
01:09:48,575 --> 01:09:50,925
unexpectedly and uninvitedly,

1340
01:09:51,056 --> 01:09:53,276
but hard to keep them away.Man: Yeah.

1341
01:09:53,406 --> 01:09:55,626
And bill just doesn't want
anything to do with him.

1342
01:09:55,756 --> 01:09:56,975
Yeah.

1343
01:09:58,281 --> 01:09:59,847
All right. See you.

1344
01:10:09,944 --> 01:10:11,598
Man: He's got a plan,
so when he comes out

1345
01:10:11,729 --> 01:10:13,470
because Billy is Billy,
you know.

1346
01:10:13,600 --> 01:10:17,213
And he's gonna come out
with a bang.

1347
01:10:17,343 --> 01:10:18,823
Oh, Billy Mitchell
always has a plan.

1348
01:10:18,953 --> 01:10:20,477
[Laughing]

1349
01:10:20,607 --> 01:10:22,043
He likes to keep secrets.Yeah.

1350
01:10:22,174 --> 01:10:24,132
He likes surprising people.

1351
01:10:24,263 --> 01:10:27,440
He likes... he likes people
seein' him do the unexpected

1352
01:10:27,527 --> 01:10:29,050
and say,
"oh, boy, I didn't realize

1353
01:10:29,181 --> 01:10:30,202
"you were gonna do
something like that, bill."Yup.

1354
01:10:30,226 --> 01:10:31,618
That's how he is.

1355
01:10:31,705 --> 01:10:34,142
It's annoying
when somebody's ahead of you.

1356
01:10:34,273 --> 01:10:37,885
You know, when you're
not the lead dog,
the view doesn't change,

1357
01:10:37,972 --> 01:10:39,539
and I always wanted
the view, so...

1358
01:10:39,670 --> 01:10:41,498
He's got
the Roy shildt excuse.

1359
01:10:41,628 --> 01:10:45,153
He's got... you know,
he's not gonna show up.

1360
01:10:45,241 --> 01:10:49,201
I've heard a lot of talk
of Billy Mitchell,

1361
01:10:49,288 --> 01:10:53,684
and I've heard a lot of talk
of strange videos and things.

1362
01:10:53,814 --> 01:10:58,254
But I haven't heard much
in the way of him

1363
01:10:58,384 --> 01:11:01,082
getting in front
of a camera crew or people

1364
01:11:01,213 --> 01:11:04,390
and winning a record
in front of people.

1365
01:11:04,477 --> 01:11:08,089
I haven't heard about that yet.
Maybe he did that 25 years ago.

1366
01:11:08,220 --> 01:11:09,961
But I haven't heard of him
doing it lately,

1367
01:11:10,091 --> 01:11:12,093
and it makes
you wonder why not.

1368
01:11:12,224 --> 01:11:16,010
[Video game sounds]

1369
01:11:30,808 --> 01:11:32,331
We got him here.
He's here.

1370
01:11:54,484 --> 01:11:56,224
Hey, Billy.

1371
01:12:17,985 --> 01:12:19,705
Mitchell: Video games
are meant to be played

1372
01:12:19,770 --> 01:12:24,209
in a competitive environment,
under pressure, organized,

1373
01:12:24,340 --> 01:12:26,994
where you have to perform
literally on demand.

1374
01:12:27,125 --> 01:12:30,476
[Man speaking]

1375
01:12:30,607 --> 01:12:32,217
Never. Never.

1376
01:12:36,003 --> 01:12:39,485
And when you do that,
you have far more credibility

1377
01:12:39,572 --> 01:12:42,445
than someone who says,
"oh, I did that last week."

1378
01:12:42,575 --> 01:12:43,935
No matter
how good you play tennis,

1379
01:12:44,011 --> 01:12:45,622
no matter how good
you play golf,

1380
01:12:45,752 --> 01:12:47,841
if you don't play
when you have to play,

1381
01:12:47,972 --> 01:12:50,322
if you don't play
when the pressure's on,

1382
01:12:50,453 --> 01:12:52,629
you're really
not good enough.

1383
01:12:52,716 --> 01:12:57,024
♪ Everybody knows
the deal is rotten ♪

1384
01:12:57,198 --> 01:13:00,985
♪ old black Joe's
still pickin' cotton ♪

1385
01:13:01,159 --> 01:13:03,596
♪ for your ribbons and bows ♪

1386
01:13:03,727 --> 01:13:08,079
Steve: I can handle losing
if he would, at least,
compete against me.

1387
01:13:08,209 --> 01:13:09,515
I'm not afraid to lose.

1388
01:13:09,646 --> 01:13:12,692
I'm just some no-name guy
from Washington.

1389
01:13:12,823 --> 01:13:16,000
Billy is trying to live up
to this image

1390
01:13:16,130 --> 01:13:19,090
of being the greatest ever in...

1391
01:13:19,177 --> 01:13:22,441
So he's afraid that if he loses,
that's gonna tarnish him.

1392
01:13:24,704 --> 01:13:27,403
Steve: Yeah, that was
the game before this.

1393
01:13:27,577 --> 01:13:30,841
♪ But just a shining artifact
of the past ♪

1394
01:13:31,015 --> 01:13:34,932
♪ everybody knows
the scene is dead ♪

1395
01:13:35,019 --> 01:13:36,586
♪ but there's gonna be a... ♪

1396
01:13:36,673 --> 01:13:39,589
Steve:
It's been three days, man,

1397
01:13:39,719 --> 01:13:41,159
and the fatigue's
starting to set in,

1398
01:13:41,199 --> 01:13:44,594
this mentally,
this, you know,

1399
01:13:44,724 --> 01:13:48,772
starting over,
it takes a toll on you.

1400
01:13:48,946 --> 01:13:52,123
♪ Everybody knows ♪

1401
01:13:53,820 --> 01:13:58,259
♪ everybody knows ♪

1402
01:13:58,434 --> 01:14:02,307
♪ everybody knows ♪

1403
01:14:02,481 --> 01:14:07,268
♪ that's how it goes ♪

1404
01:14:07,399 --> 01:14:09,749
Day: Steve wiebe, I think,
is a very straight shooter.

1405
01:14:09,880 --> 01:14:12,448
This is the last day, isn't it?

1406
01:14:12,578 --> 01:14:16,321
I think that he gets influenced
sometimes by people,

1407
01:14:16,452 --> 01:14:18,497
and, uh...
And that's probably
one of his lessons...

1408
01:14:18,584 --> 01:14:20,934
To be stronger in himself.

1409
01:14:21,065 --> 01:14:23,546
You know what I mean?
We all have lessons.

1410
01:14:24,895 --> 01:14:27,245
[Speaking]

1411
01:14:27,375 --> 01:14:30,117
Thanks.
Yeah, I'm gonna break then.

1412
01:14:30,248 --> 01:14:33,120
Last start? Okay.

1413
01:14:34,295 --> 01:14:35,296
Okay.
So...

1414
01:14:37,081 --> 01:14:39,866
Oh, here it is.
This is the last shot.

1415
01:14:39,997 --> 01:14:42,347
[Piano playing]

1416
01:14:48,962 --> 01:14:53,097
[Piano continues]

1417
01:15:32,702 --> 01:15:36,619
[Piano stops]

1418
01:15:36,749 --> 01:15:39,056
["Game over" music playing]

1419
01:15:42,450 --> 01:15:45,062
I'm done.

1420
01:15:45,192 --> 01:15:47,368
I'm done.Casualty.

1421
01:15:47,499 --> 01:15:50,154
It's so heart-breaking.

1422
01:15:51,329 --> 01:15:53,679
I guess it's not even
about donkey Kong anymore.

1423
01:15:53,810 --> 01:15:55,768
It's... man: What's it about?

1424
01:15:55,899 --> 01:15:58,597
Just, uh... I don't know.

1425
01:15:58,728 --> 01:16:01,818
It's become
just a game and trying...

1426
01:16:01,948 --> 01:16:05,038
For me, trying to get
a score recognized...

1427
01:16:05,169 --> 01:16:10,304
And trying to beat this empire
that I'm trying

1428
01:16:10,391 --> 01:16:14,308
to break through
and get a fair chance.

1429
01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:18,661
'Cause he is not cunning
and manipulative and mean.

1430
01:16:18,791 --> 01:16:20,619
He is
a decent person at heart.

1431
01:16:20,750 --> 01:16:23,274
In the end...
[Voice breaking]

1432
01:16:23,404 --> 01:16:25,015
That's all that matters.

1433
01:16:36,417 --> 01:16:38,506
In a funny sort of way,
it's like being the king

1434
01:16:38,637 --> 01:16:40,857
and having the advisers
speak their opinions

1435
01:16:40,987 --> 01:16:43,990
but then trying to choose
the right answer

1436
01:16:44,121 --> 01:16:46,863
and the right path of action
based on the advice.

1437
01:16:49,953 --> 01:16:52,477
I think that Steve wiebe has
to be viewed on his own merit

1438
01:16:52,608 --> 01:16:57,047
and not on anything alleged
which may have happened.

1439
01:16:57,134 --> 01:16:59,527
Steve wiebe feels fine to me.
Doesn't he to you?

1440
01:16:59,615 --> 01:17:01,834
Steve wiebe,
could you come up here?

1441
01:17:01,965 --> 01:17:04,924
[Man speaking]

1442
01:17:05,055 --> 01:17:07,231
- Is it Steve "weebee"?
- Yeah. "Weebee."

1443
01:17:07,361 --> 01:17:08,885
- All right.
- That's okay.

1444
01:17:08,972 --> 01:17:11,012
For some reason, I keep thinking
it's "weeb." Sorry.

1445
01:17:11,104 --> 01:17:13,672
The thing about Steve
is Steve is special.

1446
01:17:13,803 --> 01:17:15,171
Steve has gone through
a long history

1447
01:17:15,195 --> 01:17:17,720
that don't need
to burden you with,

1448
01:17:17,807 --> 01:17:20,786
but I just want to tell you that
I wanted to congratulate you
and shake your hand again,

1449
01:17:20,810 --> 01:17:24,944
that as far as I'm concerned,
you are a top player

1450
01:17:25,075 --> 01:17:27,425
worthy of the highest regard
from twin galaxies,

1451
01:17:27,555 --> 01:17:30,036
and we're very honored
to receive your videotapes

1452
01:17:30,167 --> 01:17:32,517
at any time you wanna
record them and send them to us

1453
01:17:32,648 --> 01:17:33,997
because we think, uh...

1454
01:17:34,127 --> 01:17:35,975
We think your skill set
is on the highest level,

1455
01:17:35,999 --> 01:17:39,002
and you're a member
of the family and you're great.

1456
01:17:39,132 --> 01:17:40,812
And so you're okay.
You're great, you're...

1457
01:17:40,917 --> 01:17:42,721
You make me feel,
uh, really... you're a great performer.

1458
01:17:42,745 --> 01:17:44,268
Whoo!

1459
01:17:49,316 --> 01:17:50,578
I can only
speak for myself,

1460
01:17:50,666 --> 01:17:53,494
but I... I've talked
with Steve,

1461
01:17:53,625 --> 01:17:55,124
I talked to his wife,
I talked to his kids,

1462
01:17:55,148 --> 01:17:57,803
I've met with him,
talked to him in detail.

1463
01:17:57,934 --> 01:18:00,676
And speaking for myself,
I have no question

1464
01:18:00,806 --> 01:18:05,245
about his integrity,
his ability,
or anything else.

1465
01:18:05,376 --> 01:18:08,422
I mean, he's proven
himself not just
as a donkey Kong player,

1466
01:18:08,553 --> 01:18:10,294
but really
as a person of...

1467
01:18:10,424 --> 01:18:13,732
Of somebody
who really desires
to do the right thing.

1468
01:18:14,646 --> 01:18:16,256
Man: You agree with...
I mean, his...

1469
01:18:16,343 --> 01:18:17,364
I'm not familiar enough
with the situation.

1470
01:18:17,388 --> 01:18:19,477
Okay.

1471
01:18:27,572 --> 01:18:30,793
I feel I won, that I tried,

1472
01:18:30,923 --> 01:18:34,100
and I hope people
will remember it, you know,

1473
01:18:34,231 --> 01:18:37,495
this... empty his name tag here.

1474
01:18:45,285 --> 01:18:48,549
After I returned from the trip,
Walter e-mailed me

1475
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:50,638
and had these words:

1476
01:18:50,769 --> 01:18:54,294
"Steve, your donkey Kong
accomplishment was fantastic.

1477
01:18:54,425 --> 01:18:56,514
"After soul searching,
we at twin galaxies

1478
01:18:56,644 --> 01:18:59,430
"wish to apologize to you for
such inconsiderate treatment.

1479
01:18:59,517 --> 01:19:01,824
"We look forward
to your future exploits

1480
01:19:01,954 --> 01:19:04,609
"and are excited
about the amazing
high-score breakthroughs

1481
01:19:04,740 --> 01:19:07,003
"you'll be bringing
to the donkey Kong community.

1482
01:19:07,133 --> 01:19:09,266
Blessings and friendship.
Walter day."

1483
01:19:09,396 --> 01:19:13,444
So that's his, um...

1484
01:19:13,574 --> 01:19:18,362
The way he wanted to bring peace
to this situation.

1485
01:19:21,757 --> 01:19:22,758
Dad!
Dad!

1486
01:19:22,845 --> 01:19:24,194
Is it cold?

1487
01:19:43,866 --> 01:19:46,409
Nicole:
He was searching, you know?
He was... he wanted something,

1488
01:19:46,433 --> 01:19:49,306
and I wanted that for him
'cause I wanted him to be happy.

1489
01:19:49,436 --> 01:19:51,787
So now, I see that.

1490
01:19:51,917 --> 01:19:53,397
Don't do that.

1491
01:19:53,527 --> 01:19:55,051
Do it again. Aah!

1492
01:19:55,181 --> 01:20:00,404
[Music]

1493
01:20:00,578 --> 01:20:02,188
♪ Oh, yeah ♪

1494
01:20:02,275 --> 01:20:07,498
♪ I wanna go back
to my hometown ♪

1495
01:20:07,672 --> 01:20:10,806
♪ I'd be a big shot,
be a little star ♪

1496
01:20:10,980 --> 01:20:13,896
♪ and drive the best car
off the lot ♪

1497
01:20:14,070 --> 01:20:18,422
♪ I wanna be your lucky winner ♪

1498
01:20:20,467 --> 01:20:23,949
[Music stops abruptly]

1499
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:04,860
Baby! New high score!

1500
01:21:14,739 --> 01:21:18,134
["Ride of the valkyries"
playing]

1501
01:21:24,618 --> 01:21:27,839
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