Billy Mitchell galt Anfang der 80er als der beste Arcadespieler der Welt, hielt mehrere Weltrekorde bei Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Pac-Man und Burger Time. 1999 gelang ihm dann als erster Spieler ein "perfektes" Pac-Man Spiel, sprich er erreichte die bestmögliche Punktzahl die bei Pac-Man möglich ist. Berühmtheit erlangte er auch durch die Dokumentation
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters von 2007, wo er als etwas zweifelhafter Alt-Gamer erscheint, der nicht gegen einen Herausforderer antritt. Gut im Wikipediabeitrag beschrieben, den ich unter seinem Namen in meinem ersten Post verlinkt habe.
2010 war Billy Mitchell wieder aktiv, in dem er den kurzzeitig verlorenen Donkey Kong Rekord für ein paar Monate zurückerobern konnte.
Hier noch die coolen Facts, auch aus
Wikipedia:
Notable scores
First person to achieve a perfect Pac-Man score of 3,333,360, achieved July 3, 1999 at Funspot Family Fun Center in New Hampshire.[13] As of September 2010, this is the only championship Mitchell holds, sharing it with 5 other players.[14]
Achieved a score on Donkey Kong Jr. of 957,300 in 2004. Score beaten by Steve Wiebe on February 14, 2010 with a score of 1,190,400[1][15][dead link]
Achieved a score on Donkey Kong of 1,050,200 in 2007. Score beaten by Steve Wiebe on September 20, 2010 with a score of 1,064,500[9]
Achieved a score on BurgerTime of 7,881,050 in 1984. Score beaten by Bryan L. Wagner on September 5, 2005 with a score of 8,601,300[1][16]
Achieved a score on Centipede of over 10 million points.[1]
Recaptured the world records for both Donkey Kong (1,062,800 points) and Donkey Kong Jr. (1,270,900) on the weekend of July 24, 2010.[17] These records were lost to Steve Wiebe on September 20, 2010 (1,064,500 points) and Mark L. Kiehl on September 9, 2010 (1,307,500 points) for Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. respectively.[18]
Honors
On January 14, 1984, he was selected as one of the 1983 "Video Game Players of the Year" by Twin Galaxies and the U.S. National Video Game Team.[19]
On September 17, 1999, he was proclaimed the "Video Game Player of the Century" while at the 1999 Tokyo Game Show. In a ceremony on the Namco stage, company founder Masaya Nakamura presented Mitchell with an award commemorating the first "perfect" game on Pac-Man.[2]
On November 24, 1999, he offered $100,000 to the first person who could get through Pac-Man's "split-screen level".[20] The prize was never claimed before the January 1, 2000 deadline.
On June 21, 2006, MTV selected Mitchell one of "The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers of All Time." He was also nominated as leader of the Nerd Herd.[21]
Mitchell placed eighth in the Microsoft Xbox 360 Pac-Man World Championships on June 4, 2007.[22]
In 2008, Mitchell became the first video game player to be honored with a Topps Allen & Ginter trading card.[23]
