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.