Billy Mitchell was an arcade gaming superstar, as synonymous with the craft as Pele was with football, and he held the world record for the high score on Donkey Kong for nearly twenty years. Mitchell was the poster boy for Twin Galaxies, a company organising competitive arcade gaming and paving the way for videogames to become the lucrative tour de fource we know them as today.

But in the mid 2000s an unassuming man from Washington came out of nowhere to beat Billy's record. Steve Wiebe had no idea of the can of worms he had opened and in the decade and a half since, the layers have been peeled back on an industry as obsessed with status as any competitive sport.

What on Earth is going on in arcade gaming? Who really holds the world records for classic games? Whom is filing litigation against whom? Will Y0Y be dragged into a defamation lawsuit for reporting on the curious and strange history of videogaming? Listen on to find out!

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