Twin Galaxies attacks Billy Mitchell as a fraud in new legal claims

Enlarge / Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day (left) with Billy Mitchell. (credit: DoubleCakes / Vimeo)

Twin Galaxies is going on the offensive in its long-running legal and public relations battle with Billy Mitchell. In a cross-complaint filed last month, the video game score-tracking organization accuses Mitchell and Twin Galaxies founder Walter Day of a "decades-long pattern of abuse, impropriety, nepotism, and fraud" intended to falsely "manufacture a persona for Billy Mitchell as the greatest video game player of all time."

They knew that these score performances were fake"

The counterclaim, filed in response to Mitchell's own claims of defamation against Twin Galaxies, goes much farther in attacking Mitchell than the organization's previous statements. In the past, Twin Galaxies' defense against defamation has narrowly focused on what it says was a good-faith analysis of the tapes Mitchell submitted for three alleged Donkey Kong high scores, which Twin Galaxies no longer recognizes as legitimate.

In the past, the organization was careful not to speak to Mitchell's potential motives or any actions that may have led to the creation of those tapes. Instead, it focused on technical anomalies in the video itself that led to the determination that "we now believe that they are not from an original unmodified DK arcade PCB."

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