Former Game Record Holder Billy Mitchell Caught Doing Multiple Perjuries

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Billy Mitchell, once regarded as one of the greatest video game record holders on Earth, seems set to lose his cases vs Twin Galaxies, after he is caught doing multiple perjuries.

This is a continuation of a story that has been going on for years, so we will have to sum things up quickly here to catch you up to recent events.

Billy is one of a group of gamers, who allegedly cheated in earning world records for video games, and were subsequently removed from those records and scoreboards.

Billy Mitchell decided to sue one of those world recordkeeping organizations, Twin Galaxies, for defamation in 2019. Subsequently, Twin Galaxies countersued Billy for fraud.

The two Billy Mitchell vs Twin Galaxies cases revolve around a Donkey Kong speedrun record that Billy Mitchell claims he earned in a Mortgage Broker’s Convention in 2019. Billy was caught lying in his depositions, when several other witnesses in the trial disputed his testimonies.

In one such deposition, Billy claimed that a Gamestop manager entered the original Donkey Kong circuit board into the arcade cabinet he played. He also claims that Gamestop manager was there to serve as witness for his world record, and that the manager also set up the recording equipment.

To be eligible for Twin Galaxies’ records, the gameplay had to be recorded on a VCR, which required that a VCR be connected to the arcade machine using a compatible video converter.

The Gamestop manager’s testimony, however, revealed that he did not insert the circuit board into the cabinet. He also did not set up any VCR or video converter. Under repeated questioning, the manager insisted that there was not even any cable connected to the cabinet for recording.

This last detail was important, because it