Great upload.
Any source for this Ripper? The crap-talking i mean?
Btw, there is only one date in the DK history that counts. August 17, 2000! <Tim>
I don't think the original posts are around any more, but you can get the story straight from Ben Jos here:
http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php/topic,1437.msg23404.html#msg23404 (http://www.classicarcadegaming.com/forums/index.php/topic,1437.msg23404.html#msg23404)
Actually, thinking about it, there likely would not have ever been a "DK community" at all if Ben Jos had taken the record.
Billy vs. Steve would not have played out the same way, so the movie would not have played out the same way, probably not at all, and without the movie, none of this would be happening.
Wild!
| Player | Score | Date | Platform | ||||
| Billy Mitchell | 874,300 | August 13, 1982 | Arcade | ||||
| Ben Jos Walbeehm | 893,400 | September 12, 1999 | MAME | ||||
| Tim Sczerby | 879,200 | August 17, 2000 | Arcade | ||||
| Ben Jos Walbeehm | 904,100 | November 11, 2001 | MAME | ||||
| Stevie Wiebe | 947,200 | June 30, 2003 | Arcade...DDK board...and the start of the verification drama |
Billy vs. Steve would not have played out the same way, so the movie would not have played out the same way, probably not at all, and without the movie, none of this would be happening.
I'm not sure about this. The big thing was that Steve Wiebe didn't beat Billy's classic score of 874,300 but he broke a million before anyone else.
Media carries with it a credibility that is totally undeserved. You have all experienced this, in what I call the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. (I call it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.)
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain†stories. Paper’s full of them.
In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.
That is the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. I’d point out it does not operate in other arenas of life. In ordinary life, if somebody consistently exaggerates or lies to you, you soon discount everything they say. In court, there is the legal doctrine of falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus, which means untruthful in one part, untruthful in all.
But when it comes to the media, we believe against evidence that it is probably worth our time to read other parts of the paper. When, in fact, it almost certainly isn’t. The only possible explanation for our behavior is amnesia.
Ben Jos' game summary was also posted in the DK Data Library of Memorable Games (https://donkeykongforum.net/index.php?topic=304.msg11067#msg11067) back in October 2013.
Thanks for sharing.
Ben Jos' game summary was also posted in the DK Data Library of Memorable Games (https://donkeykongforum.net/index.php?topic=304.msg11067#msg11067) back in October 2013.
Sorry I missed this one, sir. BibleThump