Billy Mitchell Makes Public Statement Regarding Removal of Scores
By Nicholas Barth ·
Today at the Midwest Gaming Classic, Billy Mitchell issued his first public statement regarding the removal of his scores from the databases of Twin Galaxies and Guinness World Records.
Making his first public statement regarding the removal of his records from both the Twin Galaxies and Guinness World Records databases, Billy Mitchell addressed the matter today at the Midwest Gaming Classic in a video posted by YouTuber Keemstar on Twitter.
"Hi, I'm Billy Mitchell. We're here at the Midwest Gaming Classic. I'm here with Old School Gamer Magazine. I've been asked to address things that are recently been in the media. The fact of the matter is now there is a true professional due dilligence being done to investigate things that happened as far as 35 years ago in a professional manner, not in a shock jock mentality designed to create hits. We will show that everything that has been done, everything was done professionally according to the rules, according to the scoreboard, the integrity that was set up," said Mitchell, "Not 2014 forward by the current regime who wants to reach back 35 years. Everything will be transparent, everything will be available. I wish I had it in my hands right now. I wish I could hand it to you, but it has taken a considerable amount of time. Witnesses, documents, everything will be made available to you. Nothing will be witheld. You absolutely have my commitment to that. We've been at this since 1982, and it is not going to stop now."
The video is Mitchell's first public comment since the decision was made by the administration staff of Twin Galaxies to remove all of the player's records from the organization's leaderboards and ban him from competing in Twin Galaxies competitive leaderboards. The ruling was the result of a multiple-month long investigation that stemmed from a dispute made by Jeremy Young regarding Mitchell's Donkey Kong score of 1,062,800.
Soon after, Guinness World Records announced their decision to remove Mitchell's Donkey Kong and Pac-Man scores and records from their database after being contacted by Twin Galaxies, who acts as the official verification entity for Guiness World Records regarding video game based records.
With the video game community having anxiously awaited to hear from Mitchell regarding the matter, there will no doubt be a great deal of discussion in the coming days focusing on the former King of Kong's statement from the Midwest Gaming Classic.
(cover photo courtesy of Nintendo Life)