Random BILLY MITCHELL quotes...
“Two hundred and fifty boards. Over many, many hours. Never dying once. Never missing a point. I had all kinds of people: ‘Oh, you can’t do it. Oh, no-one’s ever done that. There’s no way you can do that. Betcha you can’t.’ I say don’t betcha life.”
- on getting a perfect Pac-Man score.
“The all around most seasoned person in the hot sauce chicken wing industry? Yeah, for sure. Me. There’s a production end of it. There’s the preparation. When there’s the sales end of it, there’s not somebody who encompasses all of those areas like me that I’ve ever met.”
- on his hot sauce.
“Mr. Nakamota, who’s the father of Pac-Man, he presented me with an award... for having done the world’s first perfect game. So sometimes when I’m with someone: ‘Oh, you think you know more about the games than the people who made them?’ Ah, yeah. They told me I do.”
"No! What? How’s that even possible?”
“Coz I’m Billy Mitchell.”
- after doing an impossible move on Pac-Man.
“In front of what we believed was the 20 best players in the world, I played him a game of Donkey Kong. He got 190,000 in his game. I got 849,000 points on my first guy. That was the end of the questions. I forever put him in his place. My gameplay absolutely intimidated him.”
- versus Steve Sanders, 1983. Sanders claimed to be the best Donkey Kong player in the world.
“Basically he walked away with head down. Humbled. I’ve pointed out to Steve that he’s the person he is today because he came under the wrath of Bill Mitchell.
- again on the match-up with Sanders.
“There’ll always be the argument that video games are meant to be played for fun... But competitive gaming - when you wanna attach your name to a world record, when you want your name written into history - you have to pay the price.”
“Billy Mitchell always has a plan.”