If you've never seen the documentary King of Kong, here is the plot summary per IMDB:
"In the early 1980s, legendary Billy Mitchell set a Donkey Kong record that stood for almost 25 years. This documentary follows the assault on the record by Steve Wiebe, an earnest teacher from Washington who took up the game while unemployed. The top scores are monitored by a cadre of players and fans associated with Walter Day, an Iowan who runs Funspot, an annual tournament. Wiebe breaks Mitchell's record in public at Funspot, and Mitchell promptly mails a video tape of himself setting a new record. So Wiebe travels to Florida hoping Mitchell will face him for the 2007 Guinness World Records. Will the mind-game-playing Mitchell engage; who will end up holding the record?"
The television promo's hyped this documentary as a modern day David versus Goliath tale, and boy does it deliver. I couldn't help how captivated I was by this movie, cheering for the underdog Steve Wiebe, while booing the over zealous egotistical Billy Mitchell. The movie doesn't tag them as good or bad, but it's pretty clear cut who is the most favored and true at heart.
On June 2nd, Wiebe will dazzle us again by attempting to break the Donky Kong Jr. record yet again, live on G4TV. The network is apparently putting all normally scheduled programming aside to witness this monumental event!
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