Billy Mitchell (video player)
Billy L. Mitchell (born July 16, 1965 in Holyoke , Massachusetts ) was best known for setting records in arcade games . He was u. a. as "[...] probably the greatest arcade video game player of all time [...]". However, after evidence of irregularities, Mitchell was exposed as a fraudster and removed from official record lists.
life and career
Billy Mitchell reportedly set a historic record on July 3, 1999 in Pac-Man . Accordingly, he completed 255 levels with the maximum number of points, without ever being eaten. He collected all bonuses and ate every blue ghost. The maximum possible score is 3,333,360 points and is called a "perfect game" (English. Perfect game ), respectively. Mitchell owns the Hollywood retail chain Rickey's World Famous Restaurant and uses the same brand to sell a variety of hot sauces.
In the documentary film The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters , which is about a record attempt in the game Donkey Kong , he appears alongside Steve Wiebe and other well-known American video game icons.
On April 12, 2018, all of Billy Mitchell's records were removed from the Twin Galaxies high score database and he was outed as a cheater. Furthermore, he is also no longer allowed to set new records.
Controversy over records
Billy Mitchell's records were declared invalid in 2018 because they were recorded with the MAME emulator . This applies to Donkey Kong as well as Donkey Kong Jr. This was proven by frame-by-frame analysis, since on arcade machines the images build up from the left and right towards the center when the game is started. In Billy Mitchell's records, however, the objects of the level were set up individually. This confirms the use of an older version of MAME and thus invalidates some records.
In the same year, Billy Mitchell was banned from the Twin-Galaxies website. All of his records were stripped from him in the process.
Awards
- Choosing one of the Video Game Player of the Year ( video game player of the year ) of Twin Galaxies and the US National Video Game Team on 14 January 1984th
- Appointed Video Game Player of the Century on September 17, 1999 during the Tokyo Game Show . By Namco founder Masaya Nakamura , he was "Pac-Man" won an award for the first perfect game.
- MTV chose Billy Mitchell as one of the 10 Most Influential Video Gamers Of All Time ( ten most influential video player of all time ) on June 21 of 2006.
Web links
- Official Rickey's World Famous Sauces site
- Twin Galaxies profile ( Memento from March 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Billy Mitchell on the X-Show, February 2, 2000 ( March 12, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )
- Billy Mitchell Breaks World Record ( February 1, 2009 memento on the Internet Archive )
- Date of World Record Break ( Memento from July 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Billy Mitchell's Twin Galaxys Dispute (Twin Galaxys August 28, 2017)
- Billy Mitchell caught cheating (Apollo Legend February 17, 2018)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Perfect Man ( Memento from February 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ROBERT WILONSKY: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. In: villagevoice.com. August 7, 2007, accessed August 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Dispute Decision: Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong & All Other Records Removed
- ↑ Twin Galaxies' Coronation Day Crowns Video's Best of '83 ( Memento from January 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ "MTV selects Billy Mitchell one of" The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers Of All Time "
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitchell, Billy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitchell, Billy L. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer gamer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Holyoke (Massachusetts) , Massachusetts |