Billy Mitchell
Biography
Billy Mitchell, an American video game player, set high-score records on classic arcade games through the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he took up gaming around the age of 16 and in 1982 posted a Donkey Kong score of 874,300 points, a record he held for more than 18 years. In 1999 he achieved the perfect Pac-Man score of 3,333,360 points, and Twin Galaxies named him Video Game Player of the Century. He reached 933,900 on Donkey Kong in 2004 and retook the record in both 2007 and 2010, the latter with 1,062,800 points. His other records include BurgerTime and Ms. Pac-Man. He has appeared in several gaming documentaries, among them The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007), The King of Arcades (2014), and Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler (2015).
61years old
Turns 62 on July 16in 272 days
- Born Holyoke
- Star sign: CancerThe sign runs June 21 to July 22
- Also credited as William Mitchell, William James Mitchell and William James Mitchell Jr.
Movie Career
- Films
- 3
- Career span
- 8 years2007 to 2015
Every film, newest first
- 2015Nintendo QuestIMDb rating 5.7
- 2014The King of ArcadesIMDb rating 6.4
- 2007The King of Kong: A Fistful of QuartersIMDb rating 8.0
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A first
Life brought Mitchell and Sanders, along with other arcade players, to Ottumwa in November 1982 for a photoshoot. Mitchell beat Sanders at Donkey Kong, scored 874,300, and showed the game's impassable kill screen at level 22.
A first
Fothergill's world record came on May 8, 1999, falling 90 points short of a perfect score. Mitchell then hit that perfect score on July 3 at a Laconia, New Hampshire arcade, with Funspot and Twin Galaxies recording it.
A first
In 2008, Billy Mitchell became the first video game player to appear on a Topps Allen & Ginter trading card.
Billy Mitchell movies on Netflix
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Walter Day appears in three of them, more than any other actor. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
Walter Day's page
Steve Wiebe's page
Greg Bond2 films together, 2007 to 2014
Greg Bond's page
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