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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
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Cast
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Himself - Donkey Kong Challenger
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Mark Alpiger | ... |
Himself
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Adam Wood | ... |
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Walter Day | ... |
Himself - World's Video Game Referee
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Himself - Author: Master's Guide to Donkey Kong
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Steven Krogman | ... |
Himself
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Robert Mruczek | ... |
Himself - Head Referee, Twin Galaxies
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Doris Self | ... |
Herself - Q*bert Contender
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Todd Rogers | ... |
Himself
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Brian Kuh | ... |
Himself - Donkey Kong Expert
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Zack Hample | ... |
Himself
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| Billy Mitchell | ... |
Himself
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Barbara Mitchell | ... |
Herself
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Jon Farley | ... |
Himself
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Nicole Wiebe | ... |
Herself - Steve's Wife
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Plot Synopsis
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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 controversial 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? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>
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Don't get chumpatized. See more »Parents Guide:
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Country:
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EnglishRelease Date:
28 February 2008 (Australia) See more »Also Known As:
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$51,493 (USA) (17 August 2007)Gross:
$674,925 (USA) (19 October 2007)Company Credits
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Written by Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson,
Boris Williams & Roger O'Donnell
Published by BMG Songs, Inc. (ASCAP) o/b/o Fiction Songs, LTD.
Performed by The Cure
Courtesy of Fiction Records Limited/Polydor UK Limited/Elektra Entertianment Ltd.
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises and Elektra Entertainment Group
by arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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Did You Know?
Trivia
The project originally began as a documentary about competitive gaming in general - it wasn't until the film was well into production that the crew discovered the events surrounding Wiebe and Mitchell, and decided to re-focus the film entirely on this rivalry. This largely accounts for the amount of coverage the film gives to minor players, such as the elderly Q-Bert champion. By the time production ended, over 300 hours of video had been shot. See more »Goofs
The Donkey Kong cabinet that Steve Wiebe installs in his garage is a combo Donkey Kong/Donkey Kong Jr. cabinet, however the markings on the cabinet are those of a stand-alone Donkey Kong Jr. cabinet. Wiebe specially purchases and installs the "brains" (PCB) of the combo game into his Donkey Kong Jr. cabinet in the course of the movie. See more »Quotes
Mr. Awesome: Everything would've fell right into place, but he forgot about one thing: About me convincing Steve Wiebe not to be a chump, talking him out of chumpatizing himself.See more »
Soundtracks
"Pictures of You"Written by Robert Smith, Laurence Tolhurst, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson,
Boris Williams & Roger O'Donnell
Published by BMG Songs, Inc. (ASCAP) o/b/o Fiction Songs, LTD.
Performed by The Cure
Courtesy of Fiction Records Limited/Polydor UK Limited/Elektra Entertianment Ltd.
Under license from Universal Music Enterprises and Elektra Entertainment Group
by arrangement with Warner Music Group Film & TV Licensing
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KING OF KONG is one of the greatest movies I've seen in a while - not documentaries, movies. The film-making here is nothing short of extraordinary - building suspense, creating anticipation, and playing with the archetypes like the best Hollywood movies.
If you have ever played the original Donkey Kong arcade game, or on the original Nintendo, you have to see this movie. I have never beaten Level 3 on the third cycle - the spring on the elevator stage, if you know what I'm talking about, is going extremely fast. These guys get beyond 20 cycles.
I don't want to give anything away...I heard they are going to make this a feature movie with actors, but I think that eliminates the main draw of this concept - these guys are in their forties, in some freak cases have wives and children, and they play Donkey Kong with as much heart as Lance Armstrong rode bikes. They are some of the strongest characters I've seen in a movie since STAR WARS. To best summarize how enjoyable this movie is, after watching the DVD for the first time, I immediately restarted it from the beginning, and watched it again.