Guinness World Records has reinstated notorious chode Billy Mitchell’s ‘Donkey Kong’ high scores

Mark one down for the fuckboi! Billy Mitchell’s Donkey Kong high scores have been reinstated by Guinness World Records. However, dude is still not recognized by Twin Galaxies. The King of Kong drama, man!

Kotaku:

The reinstated Donkey Kong achievements include Mitchell’s original 874,300-point game from 1982, a 1,062,800-point game from 2010, and Mitchell’s status as the first person to reach the kill screen and score 1 million points in the classic arcade game.

“I wanted to clear my name and resume my role as one of the key personalities and promoters of competitive eSports,” said Mitchell, in a quote appearing on Nintendo Life. “It took more than two years and an abundance of indisputable facts, eyewitnesses, and expert testimony to prove all of my records were legitimate.”

Mitchell has long been a divisive figure in the gaming community, which was only compounded by his turn as the antagonist of in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. That film portrayed Mitchell as the cocky, hot-sauce magnate rival to everyman protagonist Steve Wiebe as they battled for the high score in Donkey Kong. Mitchell and several people who know him criticized his portrayal in the documentary, accusing the filmmakers of editing the footage to make him look worse.

This news comes just two weeks after Wiebe announced his return to competitive Donkey Kong play. Maybe it’s something in the hot sauce, but the Donkey Kong high-score scene shows no signs of slowing down.