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Guinness Reverses Decision to Strip Billy Mitchell’s Pac-Man and Donkey Kong Records

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:37AM   
from the is-pluto-a-planet-or-not? dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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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• Re:First world privileged white male problems Re:First world privileged white male problems (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:49PM (2 children)

  by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday June 24 2020, @09:49PM (#1012168) Homepage

  The U.S. Census Bureau defines baby boomers as those born between mid-1946 and mid-1964

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• Re:First world privileged white male problems (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:04PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:04PM (#1012175)

  In 100 years, boomer will have replaced the word old in common usage, and old will be marked by the OED as archaic.

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• Re:First world privileged white male problems (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:21PM

  by Runaway1956 (2926) on Wednesday June 24 2020, @10:21PM (#1012180) Homepage Journal

  Well, that settles that. The Census Bureau certainly can't be wrong.

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