We have new revelations from the ongoing legal battle between Twin Galaxies and disgraced Donkey Kong cheater Billy Mitchell. New witnesses, new lies, and yes, new fake evidence.
Recently, it was discovered that someone faked a perfect score on Pac-Man… and this time, it wasn’t Billy Mitchell!
It’s been almost two years since the publication of the series “The Video Game Fraud of the Century”. In the meantime, our research has continued, resulting in a few updates to “Dot Nine”.
It’s time to recap our first round of TG bounties, looking at Pac-Man perfect through eight, damageless Ocarina of Time, and FF6 fewest steps to Kefka at Narshe. We also introduce four new bounty challenges on Donkey Kong, Minecraft, Super Metroid, and Dragon Quest 3.
Rob Childs, owner of Arcade Game Sales in Fort Lauderdale, has told many lies in support of his “childhood friend”, Billy Mitchell. But maybe he’s finally had enough?
I’m excited and honored to share this new interview I recently did with the original Pac-Man master, Bill Bastable. For over two hours, we talked about early Pac-Man masters, perfect scores in the ’80s, Super Pac-Man, Mr. Do’s Castle, Bill’s run-ins with Chris Ayra and Billy Mitchell, and being a gamer over 60.
BIG NEWS in the ongoing Billy Mitchell cheating scandal. We finally have access to private communications between Billy’s attorney and Guinness World Records. As everyone suspected, Guinness rolled over to avoid a lawsuit. But the story is actually even more crazy than that!
Speedrunners have been maxing out their extra lives in SMB2 for years, by nailing frame-perfect triple cherries. But is it possible for us mortal button-mashers to hit the “P4” pinnacle as well?
My quest for a perfect score of Pac-Man begins with close calls, tight corners, stray ghosts, some film study, and a whole lot of memorization.
In our continuing coverage of the Billy Mitchell / Twin Galaxies legal battle, perfectpacman.com is proud to publish a new 48-page technical analysis by hardware engineer and Donkey Kong expert Tanner Fokkens. In this new analysis, Fokkens expertly takes the existing evidence a step further, by dissecting exactly why these different transition screens appear the way they do on both the arcade and MAME platforms.