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03-19-2023 at 10:54 AM

We received this note today and are passing it along! (This is not an endorsement or recommendation of any kind from TG, just sharing the info as asked. It's up to the community to make any determinations or choice on its own to support!)

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Hi,

I’m Blake Faucette, and I’m reaching out today to let you know about a new pinball documentary that I’ve been working on in partnership with Lorien Green. It’s an indie project, but we’re close to the finish line, and have launched a Kickstarter to fund those final steps, including a Blu-ray release with lots of bonus material.

In an era of digital, streaming, cloud-based, and electronic entertainment, pinball is a paradox. With most forms of modern entertainment downloadable to the palm of your hand, how does a 300-pound box of wires and lights survive, and continue to thrive? That’s the story we set out to tell with this documentary.

There are older documentaries on pinball, as well as the upcoming biopic, Pinball: the Man Who Saved the Game, about Roger Sharpe (who is also featured in our film). But we wanted to write the next chapter in pinball’s history. It’s a chapter where an in-person, electronic-yet-kinetic hobby meets up with social media and modern technology, and evolves.

If you’re interested, you can see the trailer on our Kickstarter page, and we’d be grateful if you could help spread the word. Additional images from the film can be found here. Please reach out with any questions.

Regards,
Blake Faucette


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There's that word again "documentary". Does this mean you are re-writing historical events to suit your own fictional story needs so as to market a fraudulently altered matter of historic record to the public as fact like Seth Gordon and OLD Twin Galaxies did? I hear its very common for documentaries to re-write history and re-script certain people over actual people attached to historic events for what the creators/fabricators would consider a better story.

Why not sign Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell up as the greatest pinball players of all time instead of the players that actually were. That would make the story better. Steve and Billy are cool celebrities so they should be allowed to steal and exploit others historic topic material just like before. I'm sure the actual real life pinball greats won't mind being called the day the film opens and informed of being victimized by such a cock-eyed scam.

You might ask why? Why disenfranchise and treat the real life pinball greats like crap? Why? Because F++K'em, that's why!

This is a lesson in documentary film making I learned from the collusion of Seth Gordon and OLD Twin Galaxies.

I assure you 95% of the gaming community will fully agree, support and take no issue with such a practice.

The word "documentary" is meaningless now and you have Seth Gordon and OLD Twin Galaxies to thank for disgracing that genre'.

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Quote Originally Posted by Skywarp

There's that word again "documentary". Does this mean you are re-writing historical events to suit your own fictional story needs so as to market a fraudulently altered matter of historic record to the public as fact like Seth Gordon and OLD Twin Galaxies did? I hear its very common for documentaries to re-write history and re-script certain people over actual people attached to historic events for what the creators/fabricators would consider a better story.

Why not sign Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell up as the greatest pinball players of all time instead of the players that actually were. That would make the story better. Steve and Billy are cool celebrities so they should be allowed to steal and exploit others historic topic material just like before. I'm sure the actual real life pinball greats won't mind being called the day the film opens and informed of being victimized by such a cock-eyed scam.

You might ask why? Why disenfranchise and treat the real life pinball greats like crap? Why? Because F++K'em, that's why!

This is a lesson in documentary film making I learned from the collusion of Seth Gordon and OLD Twin Galaxies.

I assure you 95% of the gaming community will fully agree, support and take no issue with such a practice.

The word "documentary" is meaningless now and you have Seth Gordon and OLD Twin Galaxies to thank for disgracing that genre'.

The community cares little to nothing about actual history regarding gaming. The word "documentary" is now a clichéd word that I don't take seriously anymore.

What you need is another fabricated and scripted "Billy vs. Steve" fairy-tale, only this time on pinball. The best part of documentary film making I sure you would agree is that you don't have to do any historical research at all and can make up whatever grade A bull plop story you want, Seth Gordon colluding with OLD Twin Galaxies set this precedence well over 15 years ago. So what if the documentary would be a huge lie and marketed as historic fact, so was King of Kong and that hardly mattered at all.

New Definition of the word " Documentary:: A fictitious prose tale of considerable length in which characters and actions professing to represent those of real life are portrayed in a plot for the sake of entertainment only.

Worthy of Webster's!


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I assume most know the previous two posts are only relevant to the actual poster himself.

What a waste of time, lol.

Guy thinks he's ticking people off, I think, and mebbe doesn't realize he's made himself a laughingstock?

Moving on.


Ya, I was in Asheville NC this past week, on a weekday, the line for the Pinball Museum was out the door, they were having to send people downstairs to their arcade to wait for a spot in the pinball museum, it was packed, so evidently SOMEBODY is playing pinball!


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i like angry roger

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Quote Originally Posted by Snowflake

i like angry roger


Naw, I'm honestly not even angry, more like rolling my eyes and laughing!

But I get it.

I can really only "glimpse read" what the dude posts, but doesn't he kinda keep saying the exact same thing, over and over, more or less, with different twists to the plot, depending on the wall post he is responding to?

I mean, I enjoy good creative writing, but the subject matter needs a makeover...

:D

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Quote Originally Posted by Rogerpoco

I assume most know the previous two posts are only relevant to the actual poster himself.

What a waste of time, lol.

Guy thinks he's ticking people off, I think, and mebbe doesn't realize he's made himself a laughingstock?

Moving on.


Ya, I was in Asheville NC this past week, on a weekday, the line for the Pinball Museum was out the door, they were having to send people downstairs to their arcade to wait for a spot in the pinball museum, it was packed, so evidently SOMEBODY is playing pinball!


You're are a gulible idiot. When anyone else views a "documentary" they expect to be presented with facts, not entertaind with a fictional story that was stolen from someone else.

I suggest you talk to a lawyer in the entertainment field and see what they tell you. I have. My only mistake was trusting that scam Billy Mitchell....................the F'ing liar!


Fifteen years later Billy can finally get his, but not if the community continues to f'k it up with "possible non hardware" arguments such as the same Steve Webie is 100% guilty of but not ostracized.

I do not want anyone screwing this up for Mr. Hall. Billy is caught dead to rights, with no excuse helping to concoct a fraudulent documentary to benefit himself financially and also artificially increasing the value of Twin Galaxies prior to Mr. Hall purchase.

Any good lawyer that knows the true story behind the matter (not the fictional story as told from the so-called KoK "documentary" could make good use of this.

Imagine Mr. Halls dismay when he discovered the so-called "documentary" that featured his future company Twin Galaxies was based on a fraud after purchase and that another player was the first to beat Billy 1982 arcade score with video proof to this day. Good legal points to discuss here, instead you imbeciles are talking the possibility of" non hardware" after the fact. FOOLS!

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Quote Originally Posted by Rogerpoco



Naw, I'm honestly not even angry, more like rolling my eyes and laughing!

But I get it.

I can really only "glimpse read" what the dude posts, but doesn't he kinda keep saying the exact same thing, over and over, more or less, with different twists to the plot, depending on the wall post he is responding to?

I mean, I enjoy good creative writing, but the subject matter needs a makeover...

:D

In reality and in a courtroom, its not going to matter what a group of video game heads who cannot tell the difference between fiction from reality thinks because of Seth Gordon and OLD Twin Galaxies brain damaging propaganda.

Jace Hall: What a great score board, I'd like to purchase it

Billy Mitchell: >snickering< You sure can!.

Jace Hall: There's no dishonest misrepresentation of facts with this scoreboard is their ?

Billy Mitchell: No

Jace Hall" I'll buy it!

Billy Mitchell: SUCKER!

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Jace didn't buy TG from Billy. Are you sure you've got a good grip on all this?

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Quote Originally Posted by Skywarp


You're are a gulible idiot.


Lol, that notion makes you seem not too smart.

I've posted here fifty billion times.

Those documentaries are amusing representations, but I've never really bought them as terribly factual, and said so, I'm not sure there are many that actually do take them as entirely factual, Man.

But they were entertaining.

:D

The problem I guess I have is that I'm not really vested, so I don't really give a rat's ass?


I'm not your Huckleberry, Bro, no matter how much you'd like that to be so.

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Quote Originally Posted by bensweeneyonbass

Jace didn't buy TG from Billy. Are you sure you've got a good grip on all this?

I sure do, better than most.

Besides Jace was sold a lie regardless of who he bought it from.

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... do you know who he bought it from then? Because it seems that you do not.

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I like how KOK has apparently ruined ALL documentaries forever. Yet another thread ruined by this crap. Go take this crap up with Billy Mitchell and Walter Day, and the rest of the people you have issues with. Sue them for fucks sake!! Quit posting about it, it was getting old months ago, and no one wants to hear you talk about it anymore.

Someone could make a post about puppies and kittens and I'd bet my house you would find some way to spin it around to that damn KOK documentary. Got it!! Donkey Kong is an animal, just like puppies and kittens. Billy Mitchell has now ruined cats and dogs for all mankind!! It's insane. Talk about something else Skywarp! You have to enjoy other things that make you happy to discuss. Vehicles, locations....other video games since this is a gaming site...nope, can't do that because this website that has completely separated from the old TG ways is somehow a lie.

Seriously, airplanes, model trains, exercising, sports, movies not named KOK. Talk about something else, please.

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He likes Dragons Lair and knows an insane amount about it. I’d like to see him submit a maxout and explain why the current score is too high to be real. It’s true.

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Quote Originally Posted by bensweeneyonbass

Jace didn't buy TG from Billy. Are you sure you've got a good grip on all this?

i feel like billy used to be a partial owner. dont quote me on it, but i do believe the countersuit invovled him cheating, not because he cheated as the video game player, but becaue he as the salesman knew he was selling fraudulent scores -- his own

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Quote Originally Posted by bensweeneyonbass

He likes Dragons Lair and knows an insane amount about it. I’d like to see him submit a maxout and explain why the current score is too high to be real. It’s true.

check out when i disputed it. its an interesting case of continuse not unlike continuing on playchoice 10. the continues dont buy you more lives, they just allow to well continue and loop the game if you have lives remaining as opposed to it autmoatically ending no matter how many you have. but yeah noone else is gonna be allowed that so the track needs splitting. i actually lke the option cause it allows more skill for those who max it, just like a marathon, sure you've mastered it but how long can you keep that mastery up for.

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ok i didnt realize tg paritally resolved it -- in the most confusing wording possible

they inactivated the dispute, indicating they've officially decided the score is fine, but as you can see from this wording they seem to be saying either method is allowed as long as you clarify. i dont feel great about this solution but i also get theres no easy answer when theres historical scores

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Quote Originally Posted by Snowflake


i feel like billy used to be a partial owner. dont quote me on it, but i do believe the countersuit invovled him cheating, not because he cheated as the video game player, but becaue he as the salesman knew he was selling fraudulent scores -- his own

Jace bought the site from Adler who bought it from Bouvier who bought it from Day and Mitchell.

I don’t doubt the countersuit involved fraud. I know for a fact it did. But this idea that Billy tricked Jace into buying a fraudulent scoreboard is 100% bogus.

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oh thers something weird too, like adler bought it from someone who didnt have the right to sell it casue due to fine wording it had reverted to day. there was some legal mess invovled in the sale. pretty sure jace wound up giving money to all invovled to resolve it

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Quote Originally Posted by Snowflake

oh thers something weird too, like adler bought it from someone who didnt have the right to sell it casue due to fine wording it had reverted to day. there was some legal mess invovled in the sale. pretty sure jace wound up giving money to all invovled to resolve it

Billy involved in a fine wording legal mess situation?! Nahhhhhh

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Quote Originally Posted by bensweeneyonbass


Jace bought the site from Adler who bought it from Bouvier who bought it from Day and Mitchell.

I don’t doubt the countersuit involved fraud. I know for a fact it did. But this idea that Billy tricked Jace into buying a fraudulent scoreboard is 100% bogus.

100% bogus you say? You sure about that? Yes ,Billy did trick Jace into buying a fraudulent scoreboard. Look at the clip from the court filing. (provided below)

Although my humor and sarcasm sometimes go misunderstood, in this case they apply perfectly to the situation as illustrated in the court documents provided below.

Again.......

Jace Hall: What a great score board, I'd like to purchase it

Billy Mitchell: >snickering< You sure can!.

Jace Hall: There's no dishonest misrepresentation of facts with this scoreboard is their ?

Billy Mitchell: No

Jace Hall" I'll buy it!

Billy Mitchell: SUCKER! :)

There was a warranty that The Twin Galaxies score board did not contain any untrue or misleading statements of fact.

This is a flat out lie and Billy knew it prior to this. This is also EASILY proven thanks to the so-called "documentary" King of Kong that could never have been made the way it was if not for the willful lies and collusion of OLD Twin Galaxies.

What is a documentary?:

noun

plural: documentay

: a presentation (such as a film or novel) expressing or dealing with factual events : a documentary presentation

A movie or television, or radio program that provides a factual record or report.


Steve being the first to beat Billy's long standing 1982 arcade world record is NOT a factual event. Fact is Tim Sczerby did.

Billy being the current record holder when Steve finally submitted a valid WR performance is NOT a factual event. Fact is Tim Sczeby was. The facts were known by Billy and Walter prior to filming.

I can guarantee there is a lot to work with here when the issue is brought to the courts attention.

King of Kong is a fraudulent documentary at best and could never have existed if not for the willful corruption involved with OLD Twin Galaxies.

See court document. Jace hall was played for a sucker by Billy Mitchell like so many of us were.


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