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Billy Mitchell talks about the truth behind King of Kong

November 21, 2017 J.A. Laraque 0 Comments Billy Mitchell, king of kong

In our interview with Billy Mitchell he discusses how he was made to be the villain and what people did not see in the, King of Kong.

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Billy Mitchell on negativaty and keyboard warriors

August 9, 2017August 25, 2017 J.A. Laraque 0 Comments Billy Mitchell, featured, haters, king of kong, online bullying

Billy Mitchell tells us about all the hate he has received and the difference between the online hate, the phone calls and how the haters react in real life.

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Billy Mitchell: You play Pac Man?

August 5, 2016August 25, 2017 J.A. Laraque 0 Comments Billy Mitchell, Classic Gaming, donkey kong, king of kong, pac-man, retrogaming, twin galaxies

We all know who Billy Mitchell is especially if you love classic games, but sometimes you can know somebody and get the reason you know them just a little bit wrong as Billy explains in this clip from our Q&A event at the Florida Film Festival for Man vs. Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler.

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Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters

November 29, 2011June 12, 2015 Patrick Scott Patterson 0 Comments andrew, chasing ghosts, Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters, furrer, high score, king of kong, Robin Mihara, Tetris, tom votava, twin galaxies

Ecstasy of Order centers around the 2010 Classic Tetris World Championships, an event set up in Los Angeles by NWC 1990 runner-up Robin Mihara. While Tetris had long been one of the most iconic video games in history, there was no one person considered THE Tetris champion, so Mihara rounds up the top ranked players in the Twin Galaxies database and some others, including NWC 1990 Thor Aackerlund, to come to California and compete on the classic Nintendo Entertainment System version of Tetris.

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Video Game Movies: The ones that got it right

December 15, 2010June 12, 2015 J.A. Laraque 2 Comments Aaron hunter, Chris Skaggs, Chronic Logic, Corey Dangel, Danny Greig, David Warhol, Detonator Games, discussion, forums, Gary Manica, Grace Snoke, Industry Inside, J.A. Laraque, Jacob Stevens, Jason Shankel, Joju Games, Josiah Pisciotta, Juan Gril, Justin Melendez Lan Slide PC’s, Ken Berrym XSEED games, king of kong, Mark van Diggelen, Mathew Anderson, Money Plum Media, obsolete gamer, obsolete gamer.com, panel, Petroglyphgames, Playtechtonics Inc, Realtime Associates, Resident Evil, Riverman Media, Silent Hill, SkillPod Media, Smashing Ideas, Soma Games, Spiderwebz Design, Stupid Fun Club, tomb raider, TRON, video game movies, wing commander, Winnie Wong, XGen Studios

Most games are made with very iconographic heroes and villains. You don’t have to worry about plot or story as much, and can focus on the core gameplay. Nearly everything is black and white. The Heroes are universally good, and the Villains are the purest of evil. As we get older, we learn life is really just shades of grey (or from “a certain point of view”).

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High Score movie review

May 4, 2010June 12, 2015 Honorabili 6 Comments arcade machines crashing, arcade world tournament, Asteroids, authentic video game world record, Bill Carlton, breaking classic arcade game records, classic arcade game records, classic video games, design limit of arcade machine, Game Over screen, gaming goals, Guiness World Book of Records, high score, high score movie, king of kong, missile command, old school gamers, ps2 gaming, regulations for twin galaxies record, top high score, twin galaxies, Twin Galaxies scoreboard, Twin Galaxies website, Victor Ali, Victor Ali Missile Command high score record, video game champion, watch high score movie

The movie brings up some good points, such as showing that in some places of the US other than drinking and drugs, video games are one of the few escapes from reality people can have. Other than that, we see a fellow gamer that does not play modern games, bringing up that his kid can wipe the floor with him on PS2 gaming, but his son is afraid to even dare challenge him in Missile Command.