Billy Mitchell – The Prince of Pac-Man & The King of Kong

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Billy Mitchell is the Video Game Player of the Century, the first to achieve a perfect score of 3,333,360 points on the original Pac-Man arcade game, the original high score record-holder on Donkey Kong, and the subject of the 2007 documentary, “The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters.” He shares the illustrious story of his famed video game career including what inspired him to start playing Donkey Kong specifically, how he got hooked on Pac-Man, why he was determined to beat both games, and how drastically things changed after he was featured in a Life magazine photo spread of video game champions during the height of the golden age of arcade video game in the 80s. He talks about Steve Weibe, Twin Galaxies, reclaiming his gaming records, meeting Namco founder Masaya Nakamura, and video gaming culture then and now. STAY CONNECTED: TikTok: @ChrisJericho Instagram: @talkisjericho @chrisjerichofozzy Twitter: @TalkIsJericho @IAmJericho YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ChrisJerichoFozzy Website: https://www.webisjericho.com/

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0:00.0	Talk is Jericho,
0:03.0	Jericho, baby.
0:05.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:07.0	My heart.
0:08.0	Talk is Jericho.
0:10.0	Mama. Talk is me. Here with Billy Mitchell. Here we go mama don't kiss me
0:13.4	uh... here with Billy Mitchell and uh... it's been a big week for you uh... big few weeks
0:18.4	Billy after years of this kind of controversy of you and your record setting point scores they were
0:27.0	finally reinstated and your records are now back where they belong with you.
0:31.6	I do appreciate it sir yes they were
0:35.0	were restored. I'm satisfied with the resolution to the whole matter. You know it's like
0:40.3	anything in the end there's always a few more things to do. There's other things on your list. There's things you want to achieve you want to accomplish.
0:47.6	And I guess that's where the future will lead us.
0:49.7	So what was the issue with you? I mean obviously I've seen King of Kong so many times.
0:54.2	It's a great documentary, but what was the problem
0:57.1	with your records and why was there such controversy
1:00.0	in allowing them to stand, shall we say?
1:03.6	Well, the actual scores, as they happened,
1:06.9	didn't have any problems, they weren't contested in any way.
1:09.9	Years later, looking at the videos, or copies of of the videos it was said that the
1:14.9	transition screens in between look different from what the arcade would produce I'm
1:19.9	not smart enough to even describe that so a lot lot of people weighed in. A lot of people
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