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It seems like the record Billy is most proud of is his perfect game of Pac-Man. (To this day on Twitter he calls himself "Pac-Man Billy.") Here's a good artic
by MilnerRoute 6y ago
It seems like the record Billy is most proud of is his perfect game of Pac-Man. (To this day on Twitter he calls himself "Pac-Man Billy.") Here's a good article that explains how difficult that was.
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/622-the-perfect-man https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/622-the-perfect...
After 254 levels of normal Pac-man, the screen fills with jibberish and screen noise -- some of the pixels you have to eat are actually invisible. Billy was the first person on planet earth to crack that level.
That's one of the other records Twin Galaxies has invalidated.
Billy's argument is in part: there's zero evidence he cheated at Pac-man, so why is that score being invalidated too.
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoLooks like the Pac-Man score was reinstated. https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/29330854/retro-gaming-pariah-billy-mitchell-guinness-records-reinstated https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/29330854/retro-gamin...
- MilnerRoute 6y agoBy Guinness. But not by Twin Galaxies...
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoAh, thanks for this correction
- TazeTSchnitzel 6y agoBy Guinness World Records only, despite the fact that GWR are not and never were the refereeing organisation for those records, so they don't have any authority. GWR just republishes Twin Galaxies' records.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoIsn't this common in sports? If you're caught intentionally cheating even once your entire career's achievements are invalidated.
- BeetleB 6y agoMultiple people have been suspended for doping in tennis, but their past achievements were not impacted.
- octodog 6y agoNo. It's not. In fact I can't think of any major sports that operate in that way. Titles/records are stripped from events where they are proven to be doping/cheating but that's usually it. Athletes are then usually banned for a period afterwards.
- notyourwork 6y agoLance Armstrong comes to mind.
- dimator 6y agoLance Armstrong
- dragonwriter 6y agoArmstrong fits the “Titles/records are stripped from events where they are proven to be doping/cheating” pattern not the “acheivements negated for whole career regardless” pattern. It's just that the conclusion of the investigations into the allegations that started early in the major success portion of his career was that he was cheating the whole time of his biggest successes.