Twin Galaxies’ anti-SLAPP motion is denied.
You can accuse Billy Mitchell of a lot of things, but you can’t say his life is uneventful. One of the earliest trailblazers in the world of video game high scores, Mitchell set a “perfect” score of 3,333,360 points in Namco’s Pac-Man and has held other records during his decade-spanning career, but it’s his association with Nintendo’s Donkey Kong – and his role in the 2007 documentary King of Kong – which has earned him enduring fame.
However, in recent years many of Mitchell’s scores have been called into question. The accusation is that Mitchell used MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) to record many of his best efforts rather than original arcade hardware – something Mitchell denies. This claim was taken so seriously that in 2018 Guinness World Records stripped Mitchell of his records, alongside famous high score leaderboard Twin Galaxies. However, last year Guinness reinstated Mitchell’s scores, but Twin Galaxies did not.
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