The Late Late Show is visited. None other than Steve Wiebe and get an incredibly fun and enjoyable time as you almost never get in a show. Steve talks about how it is, with his Donkey Kong high score!
Steve Wiebe is always will be better than Billy Mitchell. Hank Chien may be dominating the High Scores these days, but Billy Mitchell has never gotten as high as Steve :D
Haha, good question! Well, all I know is that he works at Redmond High School in Woodinville, Washington. I don't live there anymore, but he's really open to company of any kind.
Wait... What?! Billy Mitchell supposedly beat Steve Wiebe's high score, as of what Wiebe said in this interview?!... BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Great interview though. And yes, it was a good documentary-movie!
Saw the King of Kong last night on Netflix - Mr Wiebe is a thoroughly likable man and I was delighted that the good guy won in the finish. As for the three dislikes, would that be Mitchell, Sanders and Kuh?
billy mitchell is like the justin bieber of donkey kong. people have told him he is the greatest and a genius for so long that he built his whole personality around it
it was a video online talking about how the king of kong was scripted, and there was actually someone before steve that beat billy's record. Steve was aware of this but went ahead with the king of kong anyway.
It's a Germanic (Dutch/Frisian/German) name. It's speculated that it is a form of pet name for more complicated names that used the syllable 'wig'. Kinda like Bill for Richard. But here it's Wieb(e) for Ludwig for example. It's still used in the Netherlands as a first name actually, but it isn't very popular. The use of first names as last names can be explaining by the past use of patronyms in Western Europe, i.e. the use of the father's name as last name.
Well, all Americans are from Briton/EU, meaning Germanic origin, as the other commenter noted, such as Dutch. In fact, we think there is a kind of proto-Indo language and origin of all Europeans, somewhere above Germany, some say closer to Russian land. But, I digress. I learnt about this stuff when studying the history of the world and such for a novel I was writing.
I think this video came up as a suggested vid, and I thought, Oh cool, Wiebe on Ferguson, I'll watch this... And I knew you were in King of Kong, but I wasn't thinking about THAT...until the clip started and there you were! Of course NOW I'm thinking: If that was the clip that was going around on the talk show circuit when the movie came out, we might be able to find you on other shows...
He is an awesome guy, that Billy Mitchell just showed how shit scared he was of losing his only claim to fame and it's a pretty shitty calim to fame at that lol. To get that upset about a stupid fuckin game like that is sad as lol.
you certainly do seem to be passionate about it. You can rationalize it anyway you want, fact is: If I knew who the record holder for Donkey Kong in 2000, I would keep it a secret, and maybe only on my dying bed would I confess. frend
Well it's not morally wrong. Most documentaries do this, and pretty much all reality shows do this. But is it REALLY scripted? I didn't hear anything about it being scripted. I heard it was edited to make certain things look like they happened when they really didn't. But as for scripted... I wouldn't go that far. I know they are making a scripted mockumentary. Maybe that's what you read. I can't find anything that indicates that the full movie was fake.
Yeah, you now what, you're totally right. While I wouldn't go as far as to call Steve Wiebe a scumbag, the film is totally tailed to make Billy look like a jackass. But I'm not surprised. The story was WAY too compelling to be just incidental. Most documentaries are made to make SOMEONE look bad. Like "reality" tv. Though, I didn't see anything saying that it was scripted per se. If it was, that implies that billy went ahead with it too. I'm sure they're both fine.
It was absolutely scripted. Everyone at Twin Galaxies knew about this other guy that beat Billy's record on Donkey Kong because he had sent that record in to them. So the whole drama about steve weibe beating his record was manufactured from the beginning.
Billy Mitchell did not cheat Steve. Billy was trying to regain the score since 2000 , not 2006 when the movie was made. Steve acknowledges this on an interview with Mark Alpiger of classic arcade gaming.com. And by the way, any man who can beat pac man flawlessly deserves to be gamer of the century. Learn the facts people!
1. Billy awarded himself the title of "Video Game Player of the Century" 2. Billy's perfect Pac-Man game was neither the highest possible score, nor done in one session.
It's wrong to make it look like you're making a documentary, while all along knowing that it's fiction. It's morally wrong and he should pay big time for doing that.
