The Guinness World Records has reinstated Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man and Donkey Kong scores

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The ex-champion is now a champion once more. After seeing his scores for two arcade games, Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, be stripped from Twin Galaxies and thus removed from the Guinness World Records over cheating allegations, Billy Mitchell has now gotten his records reinstated by the latter. As of June 18th, the Guinness World Records has determined through "re-examination of the records and the emergence of key eyewitness and expert testimonials" that Mitchell's five scores, attained between 1982 and 2010, are to be reinstated.

They have also decided to note that Billy Mitchell is the first person to both score 1 million points in Donkey Kong, and the first to reach the game's kill screen. At this point in time, however, Mitchell's Donkey Kong scores have been surpassed on multiple occasions, with the world record currently, according to Twin Galaxies, belonging to John McCurdy as of 2019, (though the previous record-holder Robbie Lakeman retook this top spot earlier this week at 1,260,700 points) with this ruling mostly to serve in clearing Mitchell's name rather than securing the most recent top score.

Meanwhile, Twin Galaxies, who is currently being sued by Mitchell over defamation, released their own statement, stating that they are still looking into the matter of cheating allegations.

With the recent rulings on Todd Rogers, currently opened cases have been scrutinized and re-evaluated more heavily by the forum members. Young came back to the same thread today with a thorough analysis of why he believes Mitchell lied, including detailed pictures and captured gifs for comparison. Many websites misinterpreted the information that Twin Galaxies had made an official ruling on Mitchell, wrongly stating that Young was a TG judge and that it had been officially ruled, to the point that his name is trending on Twitter during publication of this post.

Accusations include that Mitchell was using MAME, an open source emulator, to obtain the score instead of a real Donkey Kong machine and that frames from his submission may have been spliced together. The score in question places him 12th place in this particular track at 1,062,800 points, behind Robbie Lakeman’s recent 1st place ranking at 1,230,100.

The Twin Galaxies Editorial team reached out to the Twin Galaxies Administration and Adjudication team for clarification and an official word on the matter.

“Twin Galaxies,” they said, “is in the process of fully reviewing the compelling evidence provided by Jeremy Young to support his current score dispute case against Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong score. We will do this thoroughly and impartially. In the meantime, we will continue to observe this discussion by experts in the community and will also examine any further evidence that may be provided during this review period.”

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I'm curious how the lawsuit against TG will go i.e. have TG wrongfully removed/banned him or is Guinness just playing on very easy mode.
 

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OMG... are they still on this, i would have thought this asshat would of let go already! if he wants to fully prove his innocence then he should get his ass back on the arcade machine and top the current world record.. either that or go drive past rickeys restaurant and give him something shiny to play with
 
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Also quick question. Who the Fuck is Billy Mitchell?
A somewhat contentious figure from the world of Donkey Kong and few other arcade game high scores/killscreen world.
Whether I would suggest it as all that accurate or not I don't know but "The King of Kong" features him somewhat. It certainly informed what a lot of people think

Personally hating him seems like hating a wrestling villain but oh well.

He is very good at the games in question but some of his scores were revoked, he used publicity and such claims to book appearances and drum up interest in shows/events. Guinness Book of records (I assume you know them but they are somewhat considered the authority on various feats of human achievement, first/last, biggest, fastest, longest, smallest... sort of thing) set up a games book at one point in time and for the scores side of things eventually leant on Twin Galaxies to do the actual testing and general upkeep on things rather than having to do it themselves.
Whether through boredom, wanting to verify, wanting to lose him from their lives or whatever I don't know (though the lawsuit may bring things out here) his records for various things were disqualified from Twin Galaxies and thus also from Guinness. https://gbatemp.net/threads/dispute...donkey-kong-all-other-records-removed.501105/
The validity of this disqualification and impartiality of those doing it was however brought to question and a lawsuit filed

That guy is an actual lawyer (more on the copyright side) but goes through these sorts of cases a lot. His conclusion (though do watch it) is Twin Galaxies might not have had the most evidence for their claim and thus could be in the wrong as far as doing what they did. If that is the case then Mr Mitchell then has various courses of legal redress.
 

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I am really wondering what this independent review was like - how could you possibly come to the conclusion that his scores should be reinstated? I wonder if they just decided they did not want to deal with the legal troubles anymore.

Yeah, facts aren't important now. Trump & Billy Mitchell have a lot in common.

I'm curious how the lawsuit against TG will go i.e. have TG wrongfully removed/banned him or is Guinness just playing on very easy mode.

I hope that TG have the money and balls to see it through in court, maybe then Billy might be able to string a sentence together that makes sense.
 
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Well, I hope for his sake that he actually did not cheat, because these companies who have contests and show rankings take cheating very seriously. I wouldn't know about his state of mind, however, as I'm not knowledgeable on top video game players in the world.
 

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Billy Mitchell actually tried and failed to sue Cartoon Network over Regular Show's hilarious parody of him named Garrett Bobby Ferguson.

https://www.polygon.com/2015/11/24/9792472/billy-mitchell-regular-show-court-case

God I love Regular Show, to anyone else who was a fan, look for JG Quintel's new animated series, Close Enough to drop its first season on HBO Max next month. Looks like more of the same but with more freedom to be more mature when applicable.
 

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I guess... if I only had this single fucking thing to claim as mine and get know for... I'd fucking defend it till I die.
At this very point he's kinda preventing to get taken away the only thing he'll ever be known for.

Sadly, he's also known for being:
the kind of guy to sue someone over a stolen twinkie.
 

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