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Funny, the wikipedia page says something different: Twin Galaxies colluded with Billy Mitchell to support his fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_

Funny, the wikipedia page says something different: Twin Galaxies colluded with Billy Mitchell to support his fraud. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong#Emulation_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Kong#Emulation_con... The referee in charge was later delisted and banned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rogers_(gamer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rogers_(gamer)

boomboomsubban 4y ago
>Funny, the wikipedia page says something different: Twin Galaxies colluded with Billy Mitchell to support his fraud Both can be true. The movie purposefully cast Mitchell as a villain based on little hard evidence, they happened to be right that he was one. I don't see how you can accuse Twin Galaxies of collusion. Sure, they were probably too lenient on someone they had a decades long connection to, but this lawsuit is about them admitting their mistake and condemning Mitchell.
- rcxdude 4y ago
  It's a reasonable accusation: for a while Twin Galaxies basically just had a few people making up numbers and their mates writing it down, without even a hint of verifying it (including a few scores which were blatently impossible to anyone who had even a slight familiarity with the game, like a game where the score only increments in multiples of five having a score where the last digit is 3). One really important point is that while it's the same organisation name it's been bought out and there's now a completely different group of people running it (and they seem to be much more concerned with sniffing out cheaters).
  - hitekker 4y ago
    Yep those are two important points. Another one is that Twin Galaxies basically sat on the collusion for a decade after the movie came out. A lot of wannabe criminals on the internet can't see this though; they live in a fantasy where fraud and malfeasance are just fun words to argue over.

boomboomsubban 4y ago

>Funny, the wikipedia page says something different: Twin Galaxies colluded with Billy Mitchell to support his fraud Both can be true. The movie purposefully cast Mitchell as a villain based on little hard evidence, they happened to be right that he was one. I don't see how you can accuse Twin Galaxies of collusion. Sure, they were probably too lenient on someone they had a decades long connection to, but this lawsuit is about them admitting their mistake and condemning Mitchell.

rcxdude 4y ago
It's a reasonable accusation: for a while Twin Galaxies basically just had a few people making up numbers and their mates writing it down, without even a hint of verifying it (including a few scores which were blatently impossible to anyone who had even a slight familiarity with the game, like a game where the score only increments in multiples of five having a score where the last digit is 3). One really important point is that while it's the same organisation name it's been bought out and there's now a completely different group of people running it (and they seem to be much more concerned with sniffing out cheaters).
- hitekker 4y ago
  Yep those are two important points. Another one is that Twin Galaxies basically sat on the collusion for a decade after the movie came out. A lot of wannabe criminals on the internet can't see this though; they live in a fantasy where fraud and malfeasance are just fun words to argue over.