Link: The Geek Movie of the Year: King of Kong
"A few dozen techies gathered last night at the offices of the investment firm Clearstone Venture Partners for a screening of the undisputed geek movie of the year: The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. The winsome documentary looks at the freakish world of competitive arcade video game playing and, in particular, two rivals who warily duel to claim the title of highest scorer on the 1981 Nintendo classic Donkey Kong.
Many of us have our memories of the coin parlors, but most, I’d wager, are colored by Shigeru Miyamoto’s early masterpiece of a game, with its malevolent ape and surreal constructionscapes. The movie is a shockingly fun ride, with a laid-off father of two battling to best one of the famous arcade kids of the ’80s, who resorts to political manipulation of the gaming league rather than directly facing his talented opponent."
When I first read this, I thought to myself "How does this writer know that Mario was laid off, and when did he have two children? Is there a chapter of early Mario lore that I somehow overlooked?" Then I realized he was talking about a real person, not a video-game character.
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