Arcade legend Billy Mitchell steps to court for cleared Donkey Kong record – Gaming – Geeks

Arcade legend Billy Mitchell has sued world record organization Twin Galaxies for defamation. Mitchell claims that the organization wrongly insinuates that Mitchell is a cheater and that the investigation into him has been subjectively conducted. Twin Galaxies disputes the claims.

Twin Galaxies determined in April 2018 that Billy Mitchell cheated on hitting records in the arcade game Donkey Kong. The organization claimed that Mitchell did not make his records on original arcade hardware. The organization concluded this after its own investigation, after which Mitchell also lost his Guinness World Records records. Mitchell said just after the announcement of Twin Galaxies deny the allegations.

Now Ars Technica has legal documents found, showing that Mitchell already filed a lawsuit against Twin Galaxies in April 2019. In these documents he gave a different name and wrote Twin Galaxies incorrectly, presumably so that the document would remain out of the publicity. In the state of California, a one-year limitation period applies to defamation cases, with Mitchell presumably sending the document only so that the case would not become time-barred.

According to the document amended in March 2020 Twin Galaxies has been defamatory, saying that Mitchell would not have legitimately achieved his record score. By claiming that he was bypassing the organization’s rules, Twin Galaxies insinuated, according to Mitchell, that he was a cheater. In addition, Twin Galaxies was already biased in the study, Mitchell said, and with the study, they wanted to generate publicity and clicks only. In addition, the organization would have ignored witness statements and, according to Mitchell, focused only on ‘scientific’ evidence.

In a motion involving Twin Galaxies does not want the matter declared admissible, the organization writes that the comments of the site were only opinions. Since these were not presented as facts, it would not be a slander in legal terms. Also, the site did not just make these comments, but asked the community for a final judgment in this matter. Twin Galaxies also says they have no doubt that Mitchell did not reach his records on original hardware and that they have nothing personal against Mitchell. They would only like to ensure the integrity of the record list.

On July 6, the two parties will meet in court. Then a judge examines the motion of Twin Galaxies, to have the case declared inadmissible.

A statement that Billy Mitchel made in 2018

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