Billy Mitchell – THE KING Of KONG BANNED!!

The King of DONKEY KONG Billy Mitchell is BANNED from doing HIGH SCORE Competitions!

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If you love arcades and especially the old 80 arcade games like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, or Donkey Kong..

you may already know about the recent scandal surrounding Infamous Pac-Man and Donkey Kong high score Record holder Billy Mitchell.

But, if you didn’t.. All of the high scores of Billy Mitchell, the longtime Donkey Kong and Pac-Man champion, have been thrown out by one of the leading Organizations that track gaming HIGH SCORES called Twin Galaxies.

They did a review of seven-year-old footage that determined that three of Billy’s MILLION POINT high scores had been falsified.So all of Billy Mitchells arcade gaming records have been removed from Twin Galaxies website and he can no longer compete.

There was a Documentary made about Billy in 2007 called The King of Kong; A Fist Full of Dollars that details the crazy life of arcade gamers trying to set high score records. Its worth a watch.. Even if just to see how narcissistic Billy Mitchell truly is.Ill link to the article and Twin Galaxies down below for those that might want more info on the story.

And then in more gaming news.

If you’d like a chance to play some of those handheld games from the 70s, 80s, and 90s like: MERLIN from 1978, Donkey Kong from 1982, or even the Mortal Kombat handheld from 1993, your in luck! The internet Archive just put up 74 handheld games that you can now play right from their website. Its pretty impressive to say the least, but having a chance to play some of the really hard to find handhelds from the 70s and 80s is just amazing. Ill link to the archive down below and let me know what you guys think about them making all these games available to us for free.

And now onto some Retro TV and Movie news.Looks like Were gonna be getting a Rocky and Bullwinkle reboot thanks to Amazon Prime! So, if you were one of those kids that grew up watching, now is your chance to see some all new episodes and relive your childhood.The original show was on from 1959 to 1964, But it has been in syndication pretty much ever since. I remember watching it after school in the 80s, and im happy to see they are going to be making new episodes. So, if your interested – Amazon has announced that the new series will begin streaming on Amazon devices for Prime subscribers on May 11.

And then speaking of 80s cartoons. You all have to check out this out. Someone recreated the 80s Transformers TV intro with real life super sized toys. I compared it to the original cartoon after watching it like 10 times and its awesome.

Bravo to whoever did this – these guys need to do the Transformers Movie next.

And for those of you that have never seen the 1993 classic THE SANDLOT, your killin me smallz!!! But in case you have, hop on over to TODAY.com, cause they got the cast back together for the movies 25th anniversary to talk in an interview and they even played a little pick-up game on top of that! Yeah yeah, awesome right?

Oh, also.. Im a Texas Rangers fan, but I gotta give the Yankees and Brewers props for recreating 2 GREAT scenes from the movie. Ill link to those in the description section as well.

Alright.. My peeples! that’s all the retro news for you this week! Be sure to like, comment, and subscribe..

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Brewers Sandlot – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SQjoGO773Y

Yankees Sandlot – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj1vF-s1qUM

Transformers Intro Remake – https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/04/someone-recreated-the-80s-transformers-tv-intro-with-super-sized-toys-and-its-magnificent/

Rocky and Bullwinkle – https://www.popsugar.com/moms/Rocky-Bullwinkle-Amazon-Prime-Series-44743692

Sandlot 25th – https://www.today.com/popculture/cast-sandlot-reunites-takes-field-25-summers-later-today-t126947

Billy Mitchell BANNED – http://www.notey.com/@techcrunch_unofficial/external/20514447/arcade-fame-turns-to-infamy-as-billy-mitchell%E2%80%99s-record-setting-donkey-kong-score-is-invalidated.html

Mad About You – http://tvline.com/2018/04/12/mad-about-you-revival-paul-reiser-helen-hunt-returning/

Retro Handhelds! – https://hyperallergic.com/435034/internet-archive-handheld-history-retro-games/