Billy Mitchell is the type of guy, that thinks he is a God for something stupid like having a good score at a videogame. Love Steve Wiebe, the one that comes from humility and deserves to win. It happens in all the games.

That Billy Mitchell guy is a real sore looser.

Time has not been kind to this story as Billy Mitchell has been shown to be a fraud and the tarnish from his deceit has even painted Walter Day as a showman rather than a preservationist. The only person who has seen even more ridicule since this came out is probably Todd Rogers. That said the story is still good, although Steve Sanders wishes he could go back and not defend Billy Mitchell - a person he has well since separated himself from.

Now this is a strange movie. Is it a documentary? Is it a comedy? The truth of the matter is it's both. The comedy isn't intentional it's just a byproduct of the mostly pathetic lives of the main characters. The director had me interested in Billy Mitchell a man who apparently held about every arcade scoring record during the 1980's. The records were kept by the founder of "Twin Galaxies" a company owned by Walter Day. If there was ever an example of a sad little man trying to do his best with the little he had going for him it's Walter. Taking that fact into account I started believing (and maybe rightly so) that Billy probably didn't really ever achieve those high scores in the first place. Now Billy's new high-score rival Steve Wiebe is a multi-talented individual who has such pathetically low self-esteem that he needs something as ridiculous as a high score in Donkey Kong to prove to himself that he is indeed 'somebody'. All this as he ignores his wonderful family proof positive that he's already a winner. But as the story unfolded I found myself pulling for Steve who attended a live Donkey Kong championship match basically put forward by Billy and his minions. The kicker is that Billy shows up but never so much as plays a game or even says hello to Steve who has traveled across the country to face off with Billy. Really though all of this is pointless as the movie's real attraction is highlighting the silliness of the arcane Arcade-ers.

This movie is before feels sad to me. Grown-ups neglecting their families and their work for childish games. Many of the guy interviewed, I feel, do not have a family other than their parents … and wear childish motive t-shirts. One scene that reflects this loneliness is the guy who at one point does some strength training for his right hand … There is another scene where a guy says that there are girls coming to the arcade, tough in the subsequent images you see almost exclusively overweight guys with graphic t-shirts or ill-fitting clothes. This documentary is interesting insofar as that it gives outsiders a deep insight into a world of grown-ups wha take childish games way too seriously. Sad but somehow fascinating to see how some adults waste their lives. PS: I also like to play videogames from time to time, but only if there is nothing else to do, as almost everything in life is more important.