It was discovered that a gamer who had beaten the world record of Pacman and Donkey Kong was using an emulator, it was deleted from the Guinness world record

Nintendo's arcade game released in 1981 `` Donkey Kong '', the world's first Arcade gamer Billy Mitchell 's record that recorded over 1 million points is illegal, on the game record storage site Yes , it was removed from Twin Galaxies , the official source of Guinness World Records, and the Guinness Records were subsequently deleted. At the same time, the record of achievement of the world's first perfect game (3.333,360 points) in Pac-Man , which has been achieved with actual machines, will also be deleted.

Billy Mitchell's Donkey Kong scores invalidated and banned-Polygon
https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/14/17237904/billy-mitchell-donkey-kong-banned-twin-galaxies

After Donkey Kong Controversy, Guinness Removes All Of Billy Mitchell's Records
https://kotaku.com/after-donkey-kong-controversy-guinness-removes-all-of-1825240701

Billy Mitchell is the first person in the world to have achieved Pacman's perfect game (score: 33,333,360 points). Also in the Donkey Kong I had been to have achieved a great score that exceeds the world's first 100 million points, but to save the high score record of Donkey Kong Donkey Kong Forum Jeremy Young, who operates a is, Mr. Mitchell The record has been deleted.

The reason for the deletion of the record was that the record was played by using an open source general-purpose emulator called MAME, not by playing on an arcade game machine.

Billy Mitchell's Direct Feed Recordings are MAME Generated

This also violates the rules of Twin Galaxies, and Mitchell's record will be deleted from Twin Galaxies. In addition, Twin Galaxies has also decided that Mitchell will ban from participating in competitive leaderboards (pages where the top score is recorded). As a result, Mitchell's Pac-Man perfect game record will also be deleted from Twin Galaxies. The record was deleted from Twin Galaxies, and Mitchell's Donkey Kong world record and Pacman's Perfect Game record, which were registered as Guinness World Records, will also be deleted. Donkey Kong's score was a record using an emulator, but Pacman's score was a record that was struck with an actual game center machine, and many people witnessed the moment when the record was achieved.

The representative of Guinness told Kotaku, an overseas game media, that 'Minky (Mitchell) 's Guinness record on the world's highest record in Donkey Kong will be disqualified because Twin Galaxies is the source of proof of the record.' is.

Mitchell is a popular arcade gamer in the United States, who has been selected for MTV's “The 10 Most Influential Video Gamers of All Time” in the past. As the following movie, it has been frequently taken up by the media as a great record holder.

Meet the Man Who Beat 'Pac-Man'-YouTube


Mitchell's title, “The world ’s first man who scored over 1 million points in Donkey Kong,” became the title of Steve Weebe with the deletion of the record.