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| Re: Billy Mitchell (sub topic: video game documentaries) by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/07/2007, 3:42pm PDT | ||||
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Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Many things have happened since I first posted this in That Yellow Chomp. For instance, I went to the Classic Gaming Expo. To recap: - Tilt: The Battle to Save Pinball is very informative. It's a great DVD for the price with lots of extras. I guess the story has a happy ending because Stern is making one new pinball table a year, but still, we can essentially blame George Lucas for the fact that there is only one new table a year. He has fucking ruined everything he has gone near for decades now. - Chasing Ghosts, the documentary, is going from film festival to film festival (apparently) but nobody knows when and if it will be released worldwide. - The King of Kong has a much better website now, at http://billyvssteve.com/ . Here's a quick FAQ as to whether or not the movie will be near you in August: Q: Hello! I am wondering if The King of Kong will be playing near my home I live in -- A: No. - Billy Mitchell apparently re-broke the Donkey Kong high score in July. I guess you had to know that the longer it took KoK to come out, the less accurate it would be. I hope the other guy doesn't kill himself. To further support growing interest in classic arcade gaming, Billy Mitchell is personally offering a $10,000 cash prize to the first person who can break his new score while at the Classic Gaming Expo, at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, NV, July 28-29, 2007. I didn't see Mitchell at the CGE, and I was not aware that there was a cash prize involved. Not that it matters, as I would have awarded myself a "prize" in Vegas if I had simply made it to the third board of Donkey Kong, which I have never done on the arcade version. (The prize would have been sitting down at a buffet in sweatpants. Needless to say, no conveyor belt scene means I have to wear real pants.) - One guy who was at the CGE was Walter Day, who is commonly seen in referee gear in these arcade documentaries and videos. He manages the Twin Galaxies high score site. Walter is one of the nicest guys I have ever met in my life. I asked him if putting a high score mod in my Gyruss would invalidate my machine for ever setting a high score there. He said it would, due to the fact that so many mods are common these days that give advantages to their players. What I didn't tell him is that I fucked up my board and had a guy offer to fix it in Massachusetts because I ruined it so severely. (I learned today that I did in fact obliterate a few traces, which have been jumpered. I am to desoldering guns what the Axe Man of New Orleans was to hatchets: brutal, unforgiving, but also quite ashamed outside the heat of the moment.) - The only attempt I made, during the CGE, at a Twin Galaxies-approved machine was in playing their Sinistar game. I took 23rd place at the time of my game, which means that I was under several fake people, because Williams pre-populates the high score table. That being said, Sinistar is a completely different game with that 49-way joystick. It's un-emulatable in M.A.M.E.. Well, unless your emulator leads to a 49-way stick, which is possible. If you get a chance to play it on that modern-day "5 in 1" Williams cabinet that you sometimes see at a Dave and Busters (or whatever) don't bother. There is a reason why Sinistar fetches great prices these days. - I had a chance to play the cocktail version of Warlords at the CGE as well. I never thought I'd ever see one. It was absolutely fucking fantastic. They only made about 1,200 of them, and that's very sad. Someone should spin the things up again, everyone who walked near it had a great time with it. - I also went to the Pinball Hall of Fame, which will be another post. - If you ever want to see why capitalism is necessary for Americans, go to an arcade with the games set on free play (which was what the CGE did). People divide into two groups: those that can trigger the coin mech to get more credits in the machine and those that skulk. The skulkers essentially play until the credits are gone, if they are digging the experience. There was one twosome at the Wizard of Wor cab for such a long period of uninterrupted time that someone from the mall came by to tell them that, through their stamina, they had won a new car. the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey! |
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Chasing pellets: Pac-Man tries to make history again by 06/08/2007, 12:29pm PDT  ALWAYS BET ON HISPANIC by 06/08/2007, 1:50pm PDT Billy Mitchell (sub topic: video game documentaries) by 06/09/2007, 7:16am PDT Re: Billy Mitchell (sub topic: video game documentaries) by 06/11/2007, 2:09pm PDT Re: Billy Mitchell (sub topic: video game documentaries) by 06/20/2007, 12:53am PDT Re: Billy Mitchell (sub topic: video game documentaries) by 08/07/2007, 3:42pm PDT |
