With Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe
This is a documentary about the world of competitive video
gaming. It focuses on two men and their
quest to be the best Donkey Kong player of all time.
I have to admit that I don’t understand what makes these
people so driven to conquer this game and go down in the history books for
being so great at it. It was casual
curiosity that made me watch this. I was
surprised by how interested I became.
Billy Mitchell is the reigning Donkey Kong champion, and classic video
game legend, and Steve Wiebe has been chasing the record. You may not understand the obsession but you
find yourself enthralled in the drama and rooting for these guys (well, one of
them anyway). As the documentary goes
along there develops a good guy and a bad guy.
There is the drama of the taint of cheating and the possibility of
conspiracies and the emotions of a lifetime of striving and falling just short
so many times. There is a cast of quirky
supporting characters on one side or the other, some conflicted and some just
interested observers but all woven into the surprisingly complex and intense
world of competitive gaming.
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