Talk:Steve Wiebe
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Johnjohnson68510 (talk) 18:46, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
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[edit] First player to get above 1 000 000 points?
Based on the documentary King of Kong he was the second player to reach this score. He then beat Billy Mitchell, which defeated Wiebe again with 1,100 points. Am I way off track here or...?--Eikern (talk) 19:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
You are correct. Steve was the second person to break 1,000,000 points on video tape. I just watched King of Kong and wanted to make sure he still holds the record. I am a little confused as to why it says he will attempt to reclaim his record of Donkey Kong in the summer of 2008/9 as he holds the record.--Tob3z (talk) 22:13, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
Eikern, if I remember correctly (no guarantee), even though Steve's initial +1000000 videotaped score wasn't accepted by Twin Galaxies, I think it still occurred before Mitchell sent his tape for that public viewing. I may be confused, though. Tob3z, according to TwinGalaxies, Billy L Mitchell scored 1,050,200 points on 6/26/2007 (3 months & 3 days after Steve's registered score that we saw at the very end of the movie) It says this score was verified via referee, Walter Day --DeusExMathias (talk) 23:00, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
It all depends on what you consider "first". Wiebe was the first to submit a 1 million+ score to Twin Galaxies on July 4, 2004. This was later rejected as the board was bought by Roy Shildt (and of course there's the debate on whether it should have been accepted or not). Four days later, Mitchell hands in his tape with a higher 1 million+ score, however, this tape was recorded in 2003. Mitchell held onto it because he wanted to perform 1 million+ in public first (which nobody has yet to do). Twin Galaxies official response is that they both reached 1 million+ at the same time. More info on the timeline here. Vitaflo (talk) 19:07, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
Then why don't we specify that? Maybe this should be an article of it's own: "Donkey Kong record controversy", he-he.--Eikern (talk) 17:42, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
The Twin Galaxies rejection of Steve's first tape was biased (Steve's competitor Billy was one of the people that broke into Steve's home to work at disqualifying the score). I don't think Billy deserves the honor of being called "the first". To me, the first was definitely Steve. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.9.59.249 (talk) 15:07, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
Billy performed the current record live (see Twin Galaxies website). Also, Twin Galaxies now demands that all Donkey Kong records be made live, in front of them. This is obviously a gimmick by Twin Galaxy board memeber Billy Mitchell to vastly restrict his competition. Throughout the documentary, Mitchell and his entourage keep saying that "Billy Mitchell always has a plan." How about hard work as a plan? Instead, as good a player as he is, he relies on trickery. Johnjohnson68510 March 26, 2008
