Now this is a strange movie. Is it a documentary? Is it a comedy? The truth of the matter is it's both. The comedy isn't intentional it's just a byproduct of the mostly pathetic lives of the main characters. The director had me interested in Billy Mitchell a man who apparently held about every arcade scoring record during the 1980's. The records were kept by the founder of "Twin Galaxies" a company owned by Walter Day. If there was ever an example of a sad little man trying to do his best with the little he had going for him it's Walter. Taking that fact into account I started believing (and maybe rightly so) that Billy probably didn't really ever achieve those high scores in the first place. Now Billy's new high-score rival Steve Wiebe is a multi-talented individual who has such pathetically low self-esteem that he needs something as ridiculous as a high score in Donkey Kong to prove to himself that he is indeed 'somebody'. All this as he ignores his wonderful family proof positive that he's already a winner. But as the story unfolded I found myself pulling for Steve who attended a live Donkey Kong championship match basically put forward by Billy and his minions. The kicker is that Billy shows up but never so much as plays a game or even says hello to Steve who has traveled across the country to face off with Billy. Really though all of this is pointless as the movie's real attraction is highlighting the silliness of the arcane Arcade-ers.