Ron Bailey, featured heavily in this film, as later arrested for multiple counts of sexual assault of minors, stemming from his days as a youth athletics coach.
Eric Ginner, the player from the center of the LIFE Magazine photo, refused to take part in the film. Ginner's gaming accomplishments were featured in 100s of early 80s media outlets, and he won the 1981 Centipede World Championships.
The 35 hour Nibbler performance submitted to Robert Mruczek by Dwayne Richard was his then second place confirmed record of 883,402,770 points. A large Nibbler controversy is explored in the doc, "Man vs. Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler (2015)."
In late 2017, it was discovered that all of Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong records of over one million points were fraudulent. The video footage was made using the MAME emulator, which allows players to use save states. Twin Galaxies, the organization that tracks video game world records featured heavily in the documentary, later announced they would remove his records and ban him from future leader-boards. An investigation lasting more than two months confirmed that Mitchell set some of his best-known records on improperly modified software, not the original, unmodified arcade games mandated under the organization's rules.
In 2018, YouTuber Apollo Legend posted a video of evidence they had gathered from multiple sources and called upon Twin Galaxies to take action against Tod Rogers' scores while Twin Galaxies had an ongoing investigation. On January 29, 2018, in the wake of many disputes being raised and several scores being proven impossible, Twin Galaxies decided to remove all of his scores and ban him from the site entirely. They notified Guinness World Records regarding their decision. The next day, Guinness stripped all of Rogers' records.