KING OF KONG!!!!

King of Kong is the greatest underdog story ever told, PERIOD! King of Kong is a documentary

about the great video games and gamers of the '80s, but centers mostly around two men and one game.

Billy Mitchell (who I repeatedly called Billy Hatcher, a former Cincinnati Reds player. Sorry Mr. Hatcher), who holds the all time Donkey Kong high score, and Steve Weibe (pronounced WEE-BEE) a High school teacher who picks up Donkey Kong on a whim just to try to beat Billy's high score.

First we meet Billy a cocky, arrogant, thinks he's the shit, Jesus look a like who wears shitty ties, and runs a hot sauce company. You heard me right a hot sauce company. He also lives in Hollywood....Hollywood, Florida?!?! WTF!!! But his claim to fame is owning the high score to many of the '80s arcade games, most notably Donkey Kong. His score is well into the 800 thousands. He's the kind of guy that you figure got the shit kicked out of him for a living in high school, but now he's rubbing his "success" in everyone's face and being a dick about it. Whatever. You want to punch the guy, but you're impressed by his ability.

Several interviewees kiss his ass like William Regal at a Vince McMahon mooning party. They proclaim him as the greatest gamer of the arcade era, so on and so forth. LIFE magazine did a spread on the great gamers of that time and he was one of the guys on the cover. Big whoop.

Then we meet Steve Weibe a normal everyman that live's in Washington. He has lived his life always ending up in second place. He had an unsuccessful baseball career and was part of an unsuccessful band. Steve just wanted to be the best at one thing for once in his life. So he saw the high score for Donkey Kong and said "I can beat that". So he gets a Donkey Kong arcade machine and posts it up in his garage and gets to playing!

Steve learns the game by drawing arrows on his machine of where all the barrels, fireballs, springs and other doo dads go on it. After this and tons of practice he becomes great and sets the world record! Scoring over 1Million points! All while his son was telling him to stop playing Donkey Kong and wipe his butt! Steve recored his game on video and sent it in to Twin Galaxies, the company that keeps track of the gaming records. Impressed with his gaming but not believing it Twin Galaxies sent out some gaming goons to take pictures of his Donkey Kong mahine to make sure it is all legal. I kid you not, gaming goons! Why anyone would go through all that to win at a game I couldn't tell you. Anyway the gaming goons find out that he got his board from a guy named MR.AWESOME! Turns out Mr. Awesome is the nemesis to Billy Mitchell. Upon finding out these details Twin Galaxies disqualifies Steve's record.

A little irritated by this Steve calls Billy and invites him to a friendly challenge at an arcade called the FUN SPOT, this way it will be on a 100% neutral and legal machine. Billy shows up at the FUN SPOT but there is no sign of Billy Mitchell. There is however a dopey looking fella by the name of Brian Puh. Brian greets Steve as he sets in to play, and shortly into his game he makes a phone call. To who, you may ask...I'll tell you. BILLY FUCKING MITCHELL. Yes, Billy Mitchell has a henchman. Brian continually updates Billy on Steve's progress. All the way up until Steve breaks his record, AGAIN! But Billy unveils his unexpected ace of spades! No, not the shitty Motorhead song, although any Motorhead song could make a tone deaf persons ears vomit, and a Donkey Kong player beg for a barrel across the chin. No he sent in......Well if you want to know the rest you're just going to have to watch it for yourself. I'm not gonna play spoiler for you lazy shit ghosts! GIANT BABA SUCKS!!!!