Polarizing arcade video game player Billy Mitchell was stripped of his Donkey Kong titles last week after he was found guilty of cheating by Twin Galaxies, an organization that recognizes world records in gaming. Mitchell is the star of The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a 2007 documentary

Билли Митчелл до недавнего времени был легендой олдскульного игрового мира. Но сейчас его имя исчезло из рейтингов геймеров-рекордсменов, набравших большое количество очков в разного рода играх, в основном, аркадных. Организация, которая составляет рейтинги и поддерживает их в актуальном состоянии,

Author: Colin Dwyer / Source: NPR.org Billy Mitchell, an arcade virtuoso whose symphonies with the joystick once won him the title “Video Game Player of the Century,” has been cast down from the heights of the high score lists. The organization that tracks video game world records announced

Author: Jeff Grubb / Source: VentureBeat He once was the king of Donkey Kong, but one of the world’s most famous gamers has just lost all of his records in the wake of a cheating scandal. Score-keeping site Twin Galaxies has finished its investigation of Billy Mitchell, who was the subject of the

Author: Heather Alexandra / Source: Kotaku Controversial arcade game player Billy Mitchell’s record scores have been removed from the Twin Galaxies leaderboards following a dispute earlier this year that many were performed using an arcade emulator. The ruling, which comes after a lengthy