MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: so there's a midway pacman v.1 and v.2 ?!?!

> I'm curious to understand how Billy Mitchell "knows" that 90% of Pac-Man boards in
> the world are one version, versus another version.

Let's say that there's a hypothetical person named 'Millie'. Millie chases arcade game world records, and has done so for several decades. Her entire personality and public persona are built around this little universe - well, except for the parts that make her a liar, cheat, and amoral, narcissistic weasel.

After several years of public scrutiny and ridicule over recorded gameplay of hers showing that she cheated on a score submission by using an emulator and videotape editing rather than original hardware and skill, Millie feels the need to stage a comeback. After all, narcissists need the attention of others in order to live; without it, they have nothing.

So, as the latest in a string of attempts to make everyone forget about her unethical past, she convinces a well-known retailer of classic arcade games - who happens to have a streaming video presence - to publically state that there's a second version of a game on which she once held a world record on his channel. That'll build her credibility for sure, even if it wasn't the game that led to the dispute that sealed her fate as conniving scum.

Now, given that the game in question has been around for 42 years and is arguably the most popular arcade game of all time, you'd think that if there was a second version of it out there it would already be public knowledge. Certainly, you'd expect the man who is the classic arcade game retailer with close to a half-century in the trade to perhaps know this, but he appears stunned - on camera, no less! - by Millie's revelation.

Does this sound conspiratorial? Perhaps so. But Millie's manipulative, and still has some friends in certain corners. Mr. Retailer may be one of those friends; he may also just be indifferent to events or simply gullible. It's hard to tell. But Millie also has a number of legal entanglements related to her past scores taking place in the courts at present, and anywhere she can have someone make her appear to have anything approaching even the tiniest bit of trustworthiness is, in her mind, something that can only bolster her legal defence and redeem her in the eyes of the public.

Also, Millie's last name is Bitchell.