The King Of Kong

2008 • 79 minutes

À propos de ce film

Billy Mitchell has held the world record for the popular Donkey Kong video game for over twenty years. When 35 year old family man Steve Wiebe suddenly loses his job, he finds solace in Donkey Kong. Stumbling upon Billy Mitchell's record, Steve sets out to break it perfecting the game every night after his wife and kids went to bed. Not only surpassing Billy's record but scoring a thought-to-be-impossible 1,000,000 points, Steve quickly becomes a celebrity in his hometown of Seattle. Meanwhile back in Hollywood, Billy Mitchell hatches a plan to reclaim his fallen Donkey Kong record... 2007 MMVII Newline Cinema Picturehouse Holdings Inc., All Rights Reserved.

Notes et avis

This is written around the extreme gaming and contest of Donkey Kong high scores. However this doco is really about good vs evil and Olympian style dedication, this about righting a wrong. Worth the $$ and you don't have to like video games it really is a gem. I don't think the director ever thought this story would play out like this at all, very lucky producer indeed.

More entertaining than you'd expect. Recommended, including to non gamers.