The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) - A View

This film is the story of one of the most iconic arcade games in history, Donkey Kong.

 It also consists of a lot of young geeks who look like in the 80's they found out that it was possible to grow facial hair.

It then brings us into the mid 00's where these geeks are well still exactly the same, just less hair.

 The main story revolves around the bizarre character of Billy Mitchell who is the current Donkey Kong Champion. He set the world record in 1982 and nobody has come anywhere near beating it in the past 20 years.....

Un till a new comer by the name Steve Wiebe bursts onto the scene with a home taped high score breaking game on Donkey Kong in his garage. The Twin Galaxies empire is in uproar at this new gamer coming in and accusations and conspiracies start flying about. The young challenger must come and prove himself on the big world stage.

The live head to head challenge for the Donkey Kong world championship title was set up and the young upstart was ready to rumble family and all but where is the old champion.....

Great documentary and really sucks you into the world of Arcade gaming (I have to admit to have a quick search on ebay). I think they did a great job at capturing both sides of the story but do feel Billy Mitchell certainly comes of the worst for representation but I personally feel that is deserved. Well worth a watch if you like gaming, geeks, barrels, documentary and bitter arcade game rivalries. Also Mark Alpiger (Crystal Castles Champion) is hilarious. Well deserved 5/5 and a watch this film sticker to go with that.