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Guinness reverses decision to strip Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man and Donkey Kong records:
Guinness World Records has reversed a 2018 decision to strip notorious arcade game figure Billy Mitchell's Pac-Man and Donkey Kong records. Mitchell, who was at the center of revered documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, says it's "a long time coming."
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Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @07:17PM
As far as Guinness goes, one of the issues there is that they trusted a 3rd party to make the determination. Regardless of whether or not Twin Galaxies was operating in good faith based upon the evidence in hand, it seems illl-advised for Guinness to rely so much on a 3rd party certification when they can and do have their own judges for other records.
I also realize that there have been other cases where the hardware just wasn't functioning properly just by chance giving people an unfair advantage. I can't recall the specific game, but I think it was one of these Pac Man records that had to be rescinded due to the matching operating more quickly than it was supposed to. The result being that there was less endurance required to hit a given level than normal, the result being that as long as the player could physically keep up with the faster play, that there was a greatly reduced demand for being awake to complete the record attempt.