Fistful Of Quarters

I am often embarrassed to say that I am not a home video person. It somehow all passed me by. Maybe it was the fact the platforms kept becoming obsolete every six months or my hummingbird-like attention span.

I do have a great WWII flying and fighting game on my PC and one version of Tiger Woods golf (but not the awesome one they recently portrayed on 'South Park'). I have been considering getting a Wii because the games look really fun.

So all my expert knowledge of video games comes from the days I spent in the dank, dirty, disease ridden confines of the video game parlour - the 70s answer to the opium dens. We thought the games were cutting edge and all that free flowing jail bait mixed with the smell of runaways, bad pizza and orange drink was intoxicating.

'Galaga' was my bitch but I also punished me some 'Donkey Kong' in my day. So when I saw the documentary 'King of Kong' I was taken right back to those days. The bad clothing and hairstyles, the gamer arrogance and corruption - as sweet to me as a rare wine. I was so there and my velour shirt and bell bottom jeans came with me.



On February 27, 2010, a new 'King Of Kong' was crowned! And it's not Steve Weibe or Billy Mitchell! New York plastic surgeon Hank Chien has demolished the old record by 11,500 points and has reached video game supremacy with a total of 1,061,700 points!