Just read from kotaku:
Guinness World Records recently announced that, as of June 10, its records management team has unanimously decided to reinstate Billy Mitchell’s previously removed high scores and achievements for Donkey Kong and Pac-Man.
“In this case, a re-examination of the records in question and the emergence of key eyewitness and expert testimonials led to a reversal of earlier disqualifications and the reinstating of Mr. Mitchell’s original records,” Guinness’ statement reads. “The records archive has been updated accordingly to reflect this.”
Mitchell’s entire history of video game records were previously removed from the Guinness archives in April 2018 after concerns were raised about their legitimacy by Twin Galaxies, the organization from which Guinness sources its gaming achievements. Twin Galaxies ruled earlier that month that the breadth of Mitchell’s high scores were illegitimate and banned him from submitting new records after evidence surfaced that Mitchell might have used the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) to achieve several Donkey Kong and Pac-Man scores rather than an actual arcade cabinet, as he had previously claimed.
Guinness World Records recently announced that, as of June 10, its records management team has unanimously decided to reinstate Billy Mitchell’s previously removed high scores and achievements for Donkey Kong and Pac-Man.
“In this case, a re-examination of the records in question and the emergence of key eyewitness and expert testimonials led to a reversal of earlier disqualifications and the reinstating of Mr. Mitchell’s original records,” Guinness’ statement reads. “The records archive has been updated accordingly to reflect this.”
Mitchell’s entire history of video game records were previously removed from the Guinness archives in April 2018 after concerns were raised about their legitimacy by Twin Galaxies, the organization from which Guinness sources its gaming achievements. Twin Galaxies ruled earlier that month that the breadth of Mitchell’s high scores were illegitimate and banned him from submitting new records after evidence surfaced that Mitchell might have used the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) to achieve several Donkey Kong and Pac-Man scores rather than an actual arcade cabinet, as he had previously claimed.
