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''[[The King of Kong]]'' is a 2007 documentary by Seth Gordon about the international top score of the classic arcade game ''[[Donkey Kong]]''. The documentary follows Steve Wiebe in his attempt to overtake the top score set by Billy Mitchell in 1982. While following Steve's training regimen and attempts at a home arcade machine to beat the score, the film also goes into how classic arcade international top scores are collected and kept through an international agency known as Twin Galaxies.
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Billy seems to be a very nice, patriotic businessman, who just so happens to be a great classic arcade game player; and you will think he's scum by the end of the movie.
* [[Arch Enemy]]: Billy seems to think Roy Shildt is his, many other high level classic arcade gamers agree with him; Shildt, however, does not.
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* [[Documentary of Lies]]: While most of the accounts in this movie are truthful, there are a small number of inaccuracies in this film, such as the tape that Billy sent in not being approved by Twin Galaxies, where in the film, it seemed as though it was.
** When Steve's 1,000,000+ record is rejected, it didn't revert back to Billy's 1982 record. That record had already been broken 3 years previous ''by Steve himself'', and it was reverted back to that.
** Walter Day posted a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120606024013/http://forums.twingalaxies.com/viewforum.php?f=86 point-by-point response to the movie] on the Twin Galaxies forum. While he seemingly liked parts of the film, he disputes several events that appeared to happen in it (including the two above).
* [[The Dragon]]: Brian Kuh is this to [[Big Bad|Billy Mitchell]].
* [[Kill Screen]]: A live one is shown during Steve's attempt at Funspot Arcade while he is getting a new record score.
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