If you’ve seen my posts here or on Aggro Me, you know I’m a huge fan of the competitive arcade gaming documentary, The King of Kong.  So I was pretty excited to see this post on Boing Boing about an article in Harper’s on Billy Mitchell and other members of the Twin Galaxies crew.  The author, Joshuah Bearman, has more info on his blog and he kindly provides a link to a .pdf version of the piece.

The article focuses more on Pac-Man than on Donkey Kong and does not really get too into the Weibe-Mitchell dispute featured in the movie.  The author ended up selling footage to the King of Kong producers and helping them fit it into the movie, but the article was begun well before that.  It does discuss the movie and it’s after-effects.  It’s a great read and a fascinating look inside the community.  Besides Mitchell, the article spends the most time on Ms. Pac-Man champ, Abdner Ashman.

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