Interview with Robert Mruczek - February 23, 2019
This interview was prompted by the discovery of an old MTV interview with Mruczek, wherein he shows off Billy Mitchell's newly accepted Donkey Kong submission of 1.047M. Of course, the tape Robert shows is covered in what we recognize today as signatures of MAME. Billy's only remaining defense has been to accuse rival Dwayne Richard of altering his real tapes, citing email threats and hearsay dating back to 2009. Silly as those accusations were, they are now fully debunked by this discovery. You can read the full breakdown here: www.twingalaxies.com/ersatzca...
For more on the oddity of Roy Shildt's scores in the TG second edition book of records, see: www.twingalaxies.com/ersatzca...
0:25 - New MAME evidence against Billy Mitchell
3:00 - Story of Funspot 2005 tape screening
8:00 - Where did the tapes come from?
11:35 - Was the tape at Funspot 2005 really that static-y?
14:00 - Steve Wiebe's 1.049M submission, and why Robert rejected it
15:50 - Why did Robert leave TG? (Wiebe score, Roy Shildt, Atari leaderboard split)
19:30 - What were the circumstances behind Billy's earlier submissions?
21:35 - Why was Steve's score unacceptible while Billy's score was accepted? (Other Billy direct feed games)
27:10 - More on Steve's 1.006M score and Billy's 1.014M submission
29:45 - Celebratory event for first 1M on DK
35:15 - Where were Billy's false starts?
36:25 - Roy's theory about the first 1M DK event
42:15 - Billy and Walter in the late '80s and '90s?
44:00 - Robert's TG origin story
47:00 - Billy's 1999 Pac-Man game
53:35 - Something screwy going on in the TG book second edition
1:00:15 - Roy Shildt's lawyer
1:02:20 - Walter Day's legacy
1:05:45 - Todd Rogers and Barnstorming
1:08:50 - One of Todd's scores was recently surpassed
1:11:40 - Coffee stain?
1:13:55 - Ron Corcoran
1:20:20 - Todd Rogers' Kaboom score
1:21:55 - Billy Mitchell and "bad publicity"
1:22:30 - Does Todd believe his outlandish claims?
1:24:10 - The Picturehouse forums, and Robert's secret identity
1:25:15 - Robert and Dwayne defending Billy after King of Kong
1:26:50 - Dwayne and "King of Con"
1:29:20 - Inaccuracies and misrepresentations in King of Kong
1:32:25 - Brian and Perry visit Steve's home, cancelled announcement for first 1M
1:34:00 - Competing film crews
1:37:00 - Abdner Ashman
1:39:20 - More film crew shenanigans
1:40:20 - Did Walter and Billy want King of Kong?
1:41:40 - Back to Billy and "bad publicity"
1:43:20 - Robert's impression of Billy's "Road to Redemption"
1:44:50 - Why does Billy really kill off his games early?
1:47:20 - Robert's thoughts on the TG dispute process
1:48:40 - Robert's role in ending the Dragster dispute
1:54:05 - The "Council of Legendary Gamers"
1:55:25 - Isaiah "Triforce" Johnson
1:58:20 - Robert's thoughts on TGSAP
1:59:40 - Preserving secret strategies?
2:01:35 - Is private referee verification too idealistic?
2:03:15 - Does Robert still attend gaming events?
2:03:45 - Billy and Walter taking over at SFGE
2:06:30 - Some people will never stop defending Billy
2:09:00 - Robert was offered "hush money" from Walter Day via Joel West
2:12:05 - Walter trying to shake down Steve Harris for money in the '80s
2:13:15 - Robert reflects on his experience with King of Kong
2:15:30 - Billy behind the scenes
2:16:20 - Some more discrepancies in the movie
2:18:00 - Tim Sczerby didn't fit the narrative
2:20:25 - Brian Kuh's lost opportunity
2:24:55 - Some people tried their best, made some bad calls, and the mistakes stick out
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I would love to meet Robert one day,thank you for interviewing him!
Oh nice. I’m on my 2nd little dabble into the King of Kong rabbit hole. I’m gonna enjoy all these interviews on your channel. Starting with this one.
Solid interview. Should have more exposure.
Great interview. I hope you can do another interview about everything that is happening up to this point in lawsuits.
I just wish the audio was better, dang! Still cool though thanks for uploading.
Fascinating interview!!
@ersatz_cats
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! When I got your reply, I wasn't yet cleared to announced that Robert and I were putting together a follow-up. But we got it done this last week, and it's now live. Hope you enjoy it! kzread.info/dash/bejne/k5xsybFtk5fAnpc.html
Great work @Ersatz Cats PLEASE re-edit the audio for this video and reupload it. I have to turn on Closed Captions to understand Robert and even then about 20% of the interview is inaudible, which is really unfortunate because this is one of the best interviews with Mruczek there is, and contains tons of valuable, historic information that needs to be saved and available for posterity.
@ersatz_cats
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yeah, sorry the audio sucks. I'm not sure the original file is much better. This was before I figured out what I was doing with recording phone calls. When I get some time down the road, I might just transcribe it all and do it that way.
@travellingshoes5241
2 жыл бұрын
If you listen with headphones and subtitles you can make most of it out. Very interesting stuff.
Deserves way more views a great look at an important era of gaming,
did you get that spreadsheet from Robert? and can you share it id like to see it and watch the movie along side to see. TIE? No...U-S-A.
Robert has no bias, tells it as it is, i love to listen to his in depth knowledge and No BS take. starting to watch now
nice interview, audio is abit low for robert but w/e. Iv enjoyed listening to robert talk on tipsters interview and yours, interesting story's, unfortunately guys like Billy, Todd and even Walter ultimately killed off any real interest in retro scores for the moment anyway, but of course without them would there been any, probably not so much.
Do you have a link to Robert's second by second factual inaccuracies annotations of King of Kong? I would love to read that!
@hardrightturn7502
2 жыл бұрын
@@rexapis1737 wym Steve didn't beat Billy's 1982 record? That's obviously untrue
Robert is a very smart guy. I love his interviews (tears off panties and throws them on stage).
Hi, I re-edited this entire video because the change in volume / quality between you and Robert made it too difficult. If you are interested in it / want it, let me know a way to get that to you. Thanks.
@ersatz_cats
2 жыл бұрын
That would be amazing! Thank you!! Can you email it to me? Otherwise, if you upload it, I can snag it that way.
@Laura-qo9cc
2 жыл бұрын
@@ersatz_cats Uploading it now, emails on the way.
Yo this is godlike
Most things on the internet can be checked using the Way Back Machine
wheres his art collection?
The Man himself!!
grabs popcorn
1:18:00 The tapes not being returned might be a lie by Todd. Apollo Legend said in his video that he contacted the department and was tikd all tapes were returned. To be honest though, it was a good lie to make.
Any tldw?
@ersatz_cats
2 жыл бұрын
No. You have to watch the whole thing, straight through, uninterrupted, or else you will learn nothing.