YouTuber ordered to pay "King of Kong" Billy Mitchell $230,000 over defamation claims

In a nutshell: Billy Mitchell, the arcade gaming legend who has been embroiled in controversy for almost a decade now, has been awarded $230,000 in a defamation lawsuit against a YouTuber. Karl Jobst implied in a video that Mitchell's legal battle against a different YouTuber led to that person's suicide after it left him "deeply in debt." But a judge said Jobst had shown a "reckless disregard for the truth." Mitchell has appeared in several documentaries related to his achievements in Donkey Kong and Pac-Man, including King of Kong in 2007. But in 2018, he was accused of using open-source emulator MAME, rather than the original arcade hardware, for some of his Donkey Kong high scores. Retro-gaming records website Twin Galaxies investigated and stripped Mitchell of his records. Guinness World Records did the same a day later. Mitchell vowed to clear his name and threatened to sue Guiness and Twin Galaxies if they did not restore his records. Guiness reinstated his record following an ... Read full article.