Not been a good week for video games or video gaming here...

(Hat-tip to my anonymous friend again for research and some bullet points.)

Several articles showing that this has not been a good week since the Twin Galaxies situation started:

• It now appears that two of the most famous records in video gaming were frauds, in addition to the ones you already know about -- and both involve (increasingly in)famous video-game "record-holder" Billy Mitchell.

Mitchell is long believed to be the first person to ever complete Pac-Man to the point where the screen would crash, making further progress impossible, with the maximum number of points possible.

This person would like to beg to differ:

This video, from about 4 months ago, indicates another player claims he was given a congratulatory letter from Midway Games for the same fate...

SEVENTEEN YEARS before it is claimed Mitchell did it.  And, not only that, but the purported letter states (and the player admits -- he does not want to be referred as the first to do this!) that, though no records were kept, Midway believed someone (rumors have it a Southern California teenager) did it before him.

And now, controversy reignited over the famous "King of Kong" Donkey Kong records will now almost-certainly nullify Mitchell's world-famous "achievements".  (AV Club)

A prominent Donkey Kong forum has already removed his scores from their records.  Twin Galaxies and Jace Hall released a statement today...  They're still investigating.

At the core of this is that it is believed any video evidence given was made illegally from a MAME emulator, against Twin Galaxies rules.

The implosion of the entire 1980's "world record" scene and the Twin Galaxies clique that guarded and glorified it would be bad enough...

• Intrepid research has indicated that referee Ron Corcoran is not the only high-profile pedophile in the Twin Galaxies clique.  A purported tipster in the rarely-used Kotaku In Action subreddit claims over a year ago that Stephen Krogman, a former world-record holder on Galaga during the same era and is being lauded as such by both Twin Galaxies and Billy Mitchell...

... even though a Florida records search indicates Krogman was convicted in 2001 of five felonies involving sex and masturbation with and in front of someone between 12 and 15 years old.  Three of them carried 15 year maximum sentences, the other two, 5.

Krogman is on the outside, but he shouldn't be.

• The Game Developers Conference has fallen into controversy after they revoked the 2018 Pioneer Award from Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell.  The charges are decades old, which makes one wonder why they only became relevant now, in the light of #MeToo -- women, hot tubs, the 1970's, what have you...
• An official PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds charity match was discredited when the on-screen commentator appeared to have caught the winner cheating.  The winner of said match was claimed to know the location of all other players on the map, without being allowed to do so.  Many Twitch viewers on the charity event for Extra Life wanted the player banned, no word if he was.  (Kotaku sub-site Steamed)
• And tonight, another pedophilia charge against a major video-game figure.  Jess Cliffe, 36, was arrested for sexual exploitation involving a child, and remanded to custody, no bail -- in Seattle, Washington.  He is the co-creator of esports pioneer Counter-Strike.   (Kotaku)

Here's a hint, gamers and gaming industry:

STOP GIVING THE FUCKING REPUBLICAN NAZIS IN THIS FUCKING COUNTRY AMMUNITION TO GET THE ENTIRE ART-FORM OUTLAWED.

Because now you're getting even people like me beginning to wonder how many more #MeToo's (Tara Strong, prominent in the video-game community, has admitted on Twitter she's been assaulted, as one example -- not sure if it was in the gaming industry or otherwise...) or WORSE...

But, in the same vein as the "All Anime Is Child Porn" false meme given credence due to the rise of moe and underage anime that probably IS some degree of child porn, the video-gaming industry and gamers are giving credence to the darkest and most regressive wishes of Republicans like those who want to see Grand Theft Auto banned.

(Or the ones who are seeing surveys purporting some 20-somethings would rather collect welfare and play video games than work...)