G4 To Air 'King of Kong'

Posted by Mike D'Alonzo - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:04 AM

Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe's epic battle to determine Donkey Kong supremacy, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, is going to be broadcast on television exclusively here on G4, where it belongs. Beginning June 1st, King of Kong will air on our network, and we will be the first to offer the film via VOD, as well.

“The King of Kong delivers an amazing look at the human aspect of the video game phenomenon,” said John Rieber, Senior Vice President, Programming and Production, G4. “This is the ultimate underdog tale for the G4 audience, gamers and non-gamers alike.”

We are stoked to be able to offer such a great movie on our network, and, if you haven't seen it, it's the ultimate gaming tale. Be here June 1st, and see some old school hardcore gaming action.

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Posted by iugome - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:13 AM

Billy Mitchell is a royal douchebag.

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Posted by coolhandchris - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:19 AM

This is way better than that Heroes announcement a while ago. Its all about the games baby!

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Posted by hetman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:22 AM

I agree iugome. I do not recognize Billy Mitchell as a human. Just a huge Duchebag. So I do not even consider his pacman and donky kong records legit. It is not fair that humans would have to compete against a big giant deuche that is Billy Mitchell. And pleae Billy Mitchell take off that effin america flag tie. Its 2007 not 1987.

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Posted by hetman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:23 AM

2008 is what i meant but you get what im saying.

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Posted by Hellwarden - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:26 AM

YEEHAWWW G4. That's what we like.

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Posted by KnuxSonic - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:44 AM

More gaming content like this plz.

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Posted by swifty_snail - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:48 AM

After watching King of Kong, I was sure the movie was along the lines of Spinal Tap... because there is no way Billy Mitchell could be that big of a douche. But apparently the movie is real and Billy is a douche- I stand corrected.
By the way, what kind of a grown man wants to be called Billy?

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Posted by hetman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 11:52 AM

@swifty_snails I agree 100%. Spoil alert. Billy does not even really play any game in the movie. He just talks shat about Steve. And they treat steve like a big pile of rubbish. If I ever see billy walking down the street he is getting kicked directly in the balls. It will be worth a stay in jail.

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Posted by staychisel (BANNED) - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:11 PM

if billy's a douchebag then the other guy's a big crybaby.

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Posted by Megagents - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:25 PM

Hey G4, maybe you could start to put a little more video game stuff on the channel? HOLD ON! I don't mean all video games all the time, just a little more, please? That way we could start to get back to being a video game channel again, won't that be fun?

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Posted by c1001z - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:33 PM

SPOILS;
Steve won the title at the end of the movie. To no ones surprise Mitchell has regained his top score since then.
Its amazing that all the sweaty, oily geeks in this movie still think of him as a God even though he obviously edited the tape he submitted!?! ...turds

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Posted by Bnitro - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:14 PM

Nice G4 nice i do find it funny that this is 100X times a bigger and better announcement than the "History changing" heroes announcement.

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Posted by tedcwilliams - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:20 PM

I'm thrilled that G4 is going to be airing this movie! Hopefully this will be a continuing trend with the network and will look at airing other game/tech related docs such as this.

I downloaded King of Kong on Xbox Live, and my wife watched it with me. I think this is a great date movie, because there were several times in the movie I turned to her and said, "Hey, I may like video games, but at least I'm not like THAT guy."

Favorite Billy M. quote from the movie (my apologies that the quote isn't word-for-word): "Everything I say is controversial. I'm kind of like the abortion issue in that regards.

One other quick note: It would be neat to see G4 do an AOTS special on the movie that can go into the background of the film and some of the controversies about the film (the big one being the order of when the records were broken). Normally I don't like the post-show programs (the Heroes recap), but digging deeper into the subject matter of the film would be very interesting.

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Posted by staychisel (BANNED) - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:23 PM

my favorite is the "potential kill screen" dude

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Posted by hetman - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 1:29 PM

AHHH I loath the potential kill screen dude. Him and vagina faced Bill need to jump off a cliff.

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Posted by fanboy07 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:59 PM

yeah i already have this on dvd its a great movie. billy Mitchell is a ass and hes scared to VS. Steve Wiebe lol. even though i already own it ill watch it on G4 they should put gaming stuff like this on all the time iam sick of cops and cheaters crap.

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Posted by Suhaila - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:44 PM

Sweet! Now I don't have to rent it. More money for other things is always good.

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Posted by collinE - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 4:47 PM

I just rented and watched it last night. I felt bad for Steve Wiebe the whole freaking movie until the end.

I can't believe they took apart his arcade and wouldn't accept the score because of some goo on the circuit board, but they accepted Billy Mitchell's submission even though it totally looked tampered with. They're both probably legit, it just sucks that Steve's wasn't accepted from the beginning.

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Posted by dillmaster5 - Tuesday, March 25, 2008 9:48 PM

"we have aotential kill screen in donkey kong over here... if u wanna see", lol

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Posted by keithyg - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:01 AM

YES it is on june first sorry but ill be to busy playing grand theft auto 4 (GTA IV) anybody else with me ? is post comment so i can see

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Posted by Slasher_King - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:18 AM

YAY! I never got to see this movie and in June it's going to air on G4. They sure know how to find the best stuff when they want to.

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Posted by fanboy07 - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 10:48 AM

ill be playing mario kart wii!! WHOO!! WHOO!! WHOO!!

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Posted by Minimoose360 - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 2:11 PM

DLed this on my 360, a pretty sweet documentary. Oh and Billy Mitchell can suck my left nut...

STEVE WIEBE FTW!!!

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Posted by Fregory - Wednesday, March 26, 2008 3:30 PM

yeah, aots should do a special on this documentary. it'd be cool to see steve and billy on the show (even though billy's a douche-bag). although billy won't show up if he finds out that steve would be there. they'll just have to tell billy they're having a billy mitchell celebration episode and he'll be all over it.

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Posted by pinkwerewolf - Monday, April 28, 2008 8:10 AM

Steve Rox!!

Drop him a myspace telling him how much ^^
http://profile.myspace.com/i ndex.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewp rofile&friendid=215383463&MyTo ken=3fb9fa6f-526f-4a2f-b331-22 2f4e1d7f16

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Posted by pinkwerewolf - Monday, April 28, 2008 8:20 AM

Uhg, here is the score atm for those wondering. I hope that Steve goes for the title again.....

HyperLink 1 100.00 % 1,050,200 Billy L Mitchell 06/26/2007 1 1 1050200 0 ###,###,###,###,###,###,### ,###,##0 1 Points 0 0 0 0 0 Referee 40527 28206
HyperLink 2 99.90 % 1,049,100 Steve J Wiebe 03/23/2007 1 1 1049100 0 ###,###,###,###,###,###,### ,###,##0 1 Points 0 0 0 0 0 Video 36272 29305
HyperLink 3 83.72 % 879,200 Timothy F Sczerby 04/23/2001 1 1 879200 ###,###,###,###,###,###,###,# ##,##0 1 Points 0 0 0 0 0 Video 32541 12958
HyperLink 4 76.34 % 801,700 Stephen K Boyer 11/04/2007 1 1 801700 0.00000 21 0 0 0 ###,###,###,###,###, ###,###,###,##0 1 Points 0 0 0 0 0 Video 93859 13036
HyperLink 5 73.10 % 767,700 Tim Jackson 02/01/1983 1 1 767700 0 ###,###,###,###,###,###,### ,###,##0 1 Points 0 0 0 0 0 Referee

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Posted by mdriver - Thursday, May 8, 2008 9:59 AM

King of Kong is a fantastic movie.

Now G4 needs to get the license for Chasing Ghosts: Beyond the Arcade. It was shown at Sundance 2007 and various other film festivals, but never had a general theater release nor was it ever released to DVD, so not many people have seen it.

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