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from the what-a-wicked-web-we-weave-when-first-we-practice-to-deceive dept.
Twin Galaxies, the long-running video game high score tracker recognized by Guinness World Records, has banned Billy Mitchell and removed all of his past scores from its listings after determining that two million-plus-point Donkey Kong performances he submitted were actually created with an emulator and not on original arcade hardware as he consistently claimed. The move means that the organization now recognizes Steve Wiebe as the first player to achieve a million-point game in Donkey Kong, a question central to the 2007 cult classic documentary The King of Kong.
Nearly two months ago, Mitchell's scores were also removed from the leaderboards at Donkey Kong Forum. Forum moderator Jeremy "Xelnia" Young cited frame-by-frame analysis of the board transitions in Mitchell's Donkey Kong tapes, which showed visual artifacts suggesting they were generated by early versions of the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) and not original Donkey Kong arcade hardware.
[...] The ban has no effect on the current world record in Donkey Kong, which currently sits at the 1.247 million points [score] set by Robbie Lakeman in February.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 13 2018, @09:13AM
As sitting on the couch in the 80s, then trying to rush into the kitchen for gathering/making snacks before trying to sprint back into your seat in time to not miss the few critical seconds of show after the break.
Why did I say 80s? Because with ads taking up 7 minutes or more of every half hour worth of show, you really do have time to get up, take a piss, go in and make a sandwich, etc without significantly exerting yourself over your otherwise sedentary lifestyle. Ahh the wonders and convenience of modern television. /sarc