leeksfromchichis: Quantumbunny: While the reasonable person would never have fought these allegations, the time for Billy to cut his losses was years ago.

It's like someone having a high school record taken from them, and then still fighting to get it back at 50 or 60.  NO ONE WOULD CARE if you just shut the hell up. The only one making this a public issue, is you.

Doesn't he make some money being the record holder at cons and stuff.  Conventions, not the con of cheating to get a record

He hasn't been the world record holder for some time.  They don't let you cheat anymore when doing world record attempts, and a handful of people are better at Donkey Kong than him.

They just haven't built there lives around it and organize a coterie of co-consiprators to make sure the records stay.  Then sue for having their "feelings hurt"* when an organization insists on following the rules that define its records.

Note that Guinness (of the records and towels) rolled over once threatened with legal issues (granted, I think you could use UK courts, which making proving you didn't libel a guy rather hard).  Twin Galaxies is the side with the legal costs refusing to settle.  Somebody (presumably who takes old coin-op games a little too seriously) bought the Twin Galaxies arcade a bunch of years ago.  Turns out the old owners were part of the above "coterie" and helped a few guys keep records without looking closely at the "proof".  New guy considers the "Twin Galaxies high score board" to be an important part of his purchase and is willing to fight to keep it honest.  No idea about anything else about the guy.

olorin604: I found this stuff interesting when it first came out, now I just want everyone involved to die.

[more or less postscript] Ok, so I went and googled.  "Twin Galaxies" is no more, being taken over by "Old School Pinball and Arcade" and owned (one link said "an owner")  by one JasonShiffer.  His google hit on linkedin includes the line "Jason is highly capable at providing strategic thought leadership regarding the technology roadmap of a developing product."  So maybe everybody's death would be no great loss.  The Ars article comments dug up some dirt on the youtuber (as if being a youtuber wasn't bad enough) as well.
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/*  yes, while the lawsuit concerns defamation, it doesn't make any claim to libel, just the "implication" that removing his records implies cheating.
// it looks like he'll get all the evidence he needs of cheating once he's done (and I'm sure Twin Galaxies will update the record book to mention "removed as a cheater" once it is safely established in court).
/// I think the youtuber guy has been hit with a libel lawsuit (he does claim Mitchel cheats).  You'd think a simple motion to drop the case due to "unsladerable" would be easy to file.

Ketchuponsteak: Hans Nieman made a fortune by suing Carlsen, maybe Billy Mitchell is also milking the media attention. Bad media is better than no media sometimes.

Best guess that is why he is doing it.  It must get harder and harder to milk the spoils of being the "King of Kong" 4 decades after the birth and death of Donkey Kong.  Gotta keep himself in the public eye somehow, and this is the only way he'll get on something like Arstechnica.