My SNES Mariners were the best team in baseball following the All-Star Break. However, they had suffered consistent trouncings at the hands of the Minnesota Twins, their nearest division rivals, setting up a potential showdown for the division in their final series in October.
While it’s admittedly fun talking about video gaming controversies, you know what else is fun? Actually playing video games!! Today I’d like to share the story of the time I played a full 162-game season of Ken Griffey Jr. Presents Major League Baseball for Super Nintendo. While that may not be that special in and of itself, I took the added step of playing the entire season over the course of six months, accurate to the daily calendar in the SNES game.
Happy May Day everyone! Want to know what’s going on in the Billy Mitchell versus Twin Galaxies court case? Of course you do! These things have a tendency to move at a snail’s pace, but we actually have some recent developments to cover, including a big, fat, stinking L that just dropped on Billy’s attorneys. Let’s get to it!
Great news for non-cheaters: The evidence against Billy Mitchell is back!! Relive all your favorite hits, like the rivet ramp, the board swap, rotated screens, the infamous MTV interview, unicorn boards, “recreated” scores that don’t add up, submissions that weren’t submissions but actually were, crowds of disappearing witnesses, Walter Day lying under oath, Dwayne Richard in a TARDIS, and of course the one-and-only MAME girder finger himself.
We are saddened tonight to report the passing of a highly respected and beloved member of the classic arcade community. Jeff Harrist, better known as “JC”, passed away this weekend. He was 53.
I recently had the privilege to catch up once again with former Twin Galaxies head referee Robert Mruczek. Our topics included Billy Mitchell’s ridiculous court cases, Walter Day, Brian Kuh, Roy Shildt, and of course, Robert’s recollection of watching Billy’s Pac-Man tape from 1999.
Today, we look at never-before-seen footage from Billy’s claimed first perfect score on Pac-Man, and attempt to answer the question of what really happened on July 3, 1999.
Today, we look at various stories that have crept into Billy’s Pac-Man narrative over the years, including his new story that he got a super-secret perfect score in Japan.
Today, we look at Billy’s actual encounter with Masaya Nakamura, media coverage from the Tokyo Game Show, and how Walter and Billy pulled their biggest story of the “Century” out of thin air.
Today, we look at Billy’s trip to Japan in September 1999, his exaggerated stories about his appearance at the Tokyo Game Show, and his dubious story about meeting Masaya Nakamura’s “inner circle”.