Donkey Kong Kill Screen is Coming Up

“The randomness went the other way.”
Seems like the very definition of random to me. Genius!

Holy...

Real question: has anyone tried Billy's hot sauce?

😂

It's just not going to get any easier.

"im not bitter"

Damn Brian save some for the rest

I want to remind everyone of the set up to this scene and the aftermath. These fucking elitist ass nerds refused to accept Steve Wiebes score that he sent in via videotape regardless of the fact that that's basically how all their high scores are done. They forced him to have to fly out to their fucking arcade and do it in person. Then after he did it Billy Mitchell submitted a score to beat his that Billy put on a VHS tape and they accepted it despite insisting that Steve Wiebe couldn't submit a VHS and had to do it in person. Then years after this documentary it came out that Billy had been faking his VHS scores.

Dude used his meemaw’s credit card to buy an inferno orange dress shirt to go hang out at a farted out arcade with 57 year olds

Brian looks like a really depressing version of Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys.

wait.. so he is trying to sabotage the guy? this nerd.. DAMN.

Guy gave himself the Prodigy moniker. Bonus level of lame…

Not as hard as doing a decathlon (10 events) or a triathlon (3 events). I guess he is right but that is a really weird way to say it. It is like saying "It isn't as hard as lifting 1,000 pounds or 300 pounds but it is still very very hard."

There’s a potential donkey Kong kill screen coming up. Quick, everyone gather around and hope he chokes under pressure.

They say on a quiet night in the woods behind Fun Spot, if you're really quiet and clear your head of all negative energy, you can still hear Kuh saying "there's a potential kill screen coming up in a couple minutes of you're interested."

Vic Mackey brought me here 🐍

After he got the kill screen dude looked suicidal

"That ape is very, very cunning and he will do what he needs to to stop you"
Lmao, he seems like a harmless, nice guy and all, but god what a nerd.

Brian Kuh seems like the type who walks in on his best friend having sex just to inform them that a donkey kong kill screen is coming up.

Everyone likes to rag on Brian Kuhn but to his credit he is a pretty straightforward guy here. Sure he goes around trying to drum up a crowd to stress Wiebe but he's indirectly honest about that afterwards. Also, he states upfront that his game is "weak" and about half what Wiebe's score was. When Wiebe finally gets success, he's upfront again about the first kill screen, highest score at Cool Spot - he didn't try to weasel his way out of the fact even though we can all see it was crushing to his spirit. Just he sucked up to Billy too much, and got too obsessed over a game. I don't doubt the film director tried to show him in a poor light. BTW, interesting that Robert calls Billy Mitchell "Bill".

Guys, there might be a Donkey Kong kill screen coming up ...

Just seems like he was trying to pressure Steve by creating a massive audience, what a jackass

Apparently Kuh was a victim of deceptive editing by the film makers. But that look of devastation is what it is. He said he wanted to be the first to get to the kill screen and he found it hard to announce that Weibe was the first to do it. The seething jealousy/resentment is written all over his face.

brian was only playing to soak up time off steve lmao trying to stop him at any cost

I live about an hour from funspot

last ditch effort from brian to cause wiebe to "choke" with all the people he was trying to get around hahah pathetic

i heard billy mitchell was paying brian with favours :D

Boy has the worm turned 😅

kill screen coming up! lol

Kill screen

Fun fact: there's a donkey kong kill screen coming up

There's a Billy Mitchell cameo being shut down coming up soon, if you want to watch.

The depth of pain Kuh feels is unfathomable.

Kuh looks like the kind of guy you would see in a Wii commercial back in 2006

So damn funny in the good old unintended way.

My friend had the donkey Kong arcade machine at his house. When we were kids we played it for hours and then we wouldn’t know what the hell happened when it would just stop.

I watched this for the first time recently, and it is amazing how deadly serious all these guys took playing video games.

Brian Kuh grappling with the fact that Steve Wiebe beat both him and Billy Mitchell to the kill screen is the saddest moment ever captured in the history of documentary cinema. He has received a glimpse of the bitter trajectory his video game-centric early retirement life will soon take. He has seen another man summit Mount Olympus before him and seen how unchanged that man is. Why has he retired? Why does he waste his life wandering from one sad, soda-soaked, Dorito-sprinkled arcade to the next, searching for the ephemeral high of a high score, when an unknown teacher can emerge from the mists of the Pacfiic Northwest to snatch that glory from Brian? Brian has worked for YEARS to attain that high score! How DARE this Seattle diletanttante rob Brian of the immortality that was his birthright. Brian devoted his LIFE to reach the kill screen! Surely this Washington rube has not earned the kill screen; surely he has not spent hundreds of nights accumulating bloody knuckles, sweaty pores, and tear-stained T-Shirts disciplining himself for the legendary kill screen.

Brian has seen the mountaintop. And my friends, he can declare to you that it is NOT good.

How can a guy his age retire?? Seriously I’d like to know

I think you guys are forgetting one thing. This is a VIDEO GAME high score. I was shocked when I saw how people obsessed with a high score can act truly terrifying to hold onto such a useless claim. You don’t get paid to get high scores, you don’t get women or sponsorship deals, you get zip. All you get is an occasional toxic community who will doubt you and mock you if you haven’t spent 3000 hours on the game. I’ve seen great players get in a depressing cycle of highs and lows because once their score is beaten they get desperate and will either cheat to remain on top or slander their opponent. Occasionally they take their score back but once your score is beaten people will spend hundreds of thousands of hours trying to improve their score by a measly second or a wimpy few extra points. It’s INSANE

Brian Kuh is such a massive dork, I hate him more than Billy

The X-factor for Steve is that he’s an athlete. Being a nerd isn’t enough when physical stamina and eye-hand coordination plays such a critical role

Sucks to say that it was pretty uneventful.

Brian Kuh getting RNJesus’d is so fucking beautiful. Fuck him.

You trying to spook him by telling everyone to watch him

There's a Billy Mitchell lawsuit victory over Karl Jobst coming if anyone wants to see it.

Amazing! ❤

There's a Karl Jobst bankruptcy coming up if anyone wants to watch.

That balding dude in the Doom shirt…..he watches piles of tapes of classic arcade games for 24 hours straight sometimes. Plus works as an accountant. Seems like a nice guy, but I can not imagine a more torturous professional life than those two things combined.