Or maybe not, https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertain...d-is-going-to-court/ar-BB13BM8e?ocid=msedgntp Twin Galaxies announced its decision to strip Mitchell of his records back in April 2018 after its investigation revealed that he had not achieved his Donkey Kong high scores on original arcade hardware. While some in the community have accused Mitchell of using the arcade emulation software MAME, Twin Galaxies said it didn’t have enough evidence to support this claim. Guinness World Records, which had been relying on Twin Galaxies to verify Mitchell’s scores, subsequently stripped him of his records. Arcade expert and hot sauce mogul Billy Mitchell
I saw a documentary on this guy a while back, 'The King of Kong: A Fistfull of Quarters', about the guy who was out to beat Mitchell's record on the game. It was an amusing piece, and Mitchell is a very strange guy.
Wasn't he the guy that Hans Gruber killed in Die Hard in order to get John McClane to surrender? Harry Ellis! Doing blow and wrecking secretaries in your bosses' office like a boss!