Post 1:
The first post by Walter Day puts forth his version of the facts. That Twin Galaxies never showed Steve Wiebe or Tim Sczerby any resentment for their accomplishments or tried to protect Billy Mitchell from being replaced. Walter Day puts forth evidence that Twin Galaxies gave the proper attention and glory to these two men for their accomplishments. However, it omits the fact that Billy Mitchell did reclaim his throne through a video tape during the filming of this documentary.
Post 2:
This second post by Walter Day tries to illustrate that Steve Wiebe remained the world record holder for Donkey Kong over the course of the movie with a score that the directors neglected to show the audience. This, however, is marred by Mr. Day’s own evidence. One of his tables of scores lists the top three scores as of the year 2003. However, the second place score (Billy Mitchell’s score) is listed as 5/27/2004, a full year after the data is supposed to have been collected. Whether this is a mere mistake or a faulty graph is not important. The true importance of this evidence is found in the fact that this data was not presented to the audience in the film. This is a true case of “he said-she said.” with the directors of the documentary showing their footage of actual events versus Twin Galaxies trying to justify their innocence of any wrong doing.
Post 4:
This post by Walter Day speaks on the topic of his acceptance Billy Mitchell’s videotaped Donkey Kong score. He accepts responsibility for the mistake and confesses that, before he had a chance to remove the score himself, Robert Mruczek removed the score from the Twin Galaxies webpage. This was done in order to confirm the validity of the tape and therefore the score. According to Walter Day, the original tape was being sent by Billy to Twin galaxies for official approval and review. Curiously however, Walter Day never mentions anything more about this tape. He never mentions if it arrives, was reviewed, rejected or accepted. He simply drops the topic. Therefore, there are two conclusions. Either, Billy Mitchell forged the tape and the score was then invalidated or he never sent the tape. Either way, according to Twin Galaxies, Steve Wiebe remained the World Champion despite Billy’s attempt to reclaim his title.
Post 5:
This last post by Walter Day speaks to the events surrounding the Donkey Kong verification visit. According to him, two players offered to check out Steve Wiebe’s machine for Twin Galaxies. This offer was accepted and the machine was checked out by two anonymous people. If nothing else, this was a huge breach in procedures for Twin Galaxies and showed a lack of integrity for the process.
