Let me say this right off the bat before I mention anything else: Steve is the real deal, and he's a great guy. My telling him that ape is very cunning wasn't the only interaction we had that weekend, and there was certainly a sense of people mistrusting him about. I didn't buy into it, and let the man play, and he proved them all wrong, and I'm glad I was there to see it. In that sense, there really was an underdog story come true.
With that said, the editors definitely took liberties. There was no faked footage in KoK, as you might imagine (and yes, I really am that much of a dork), but certain things were presented out of order or out of context to paint the picture of a conspiracy. (It's not like they needed to - there was plenty of stupidity going around without them needing to make up a villanous appearance. Suffice it to say that TG is now under new management.) Perhaps the greatest fact-bending is that Steve Wiebe was depicted as wresting a 20-year-old record from Billy Mitchell; he didn't. The editors of the film practically bent over backwards to erase Tim Sczerby from existence, the man that in 2000 did beat Billy's score from 1982. Steve beat Tim's score in 2003, and held the record until January 2006; when his million-plus score was rejected, his earlier score was still the record, and Billy's old score was still third place. The Twin Galaxies forum has a section devoted to the film's inaccuracies.
My personal experience is... well, what I put in the letter. Nothing I wrote in "A Letter to the Prince of Kong" is fictional. There really is a great sense of camaraderie - at least, among most of the players. - ZM
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With that said, the editors definitely took liberties. There was no faked footage in KoK, as you might imagine (and yes, I really am that much of a dork), but certain things were presented out of order or out of context to paint the picture of a conspiracy. (It's not like they needed to - there was plenty of stupidity going around without them needing to make up a villanous appearance. Suffice it to say that TG is now under new management.) Perhaps the greatest fact-bending is that Steve Wiebe was depicted as wresting a 20-year-old record from Billy Mitchell; he didn't. The editors of the film practically bent over backwards to erase Tim Sczerby from existence, the man that in 2000 did beat Billy's score from 1982. Steve beat Tim's score in 2003, and held the record until January 2006; when his million-plus score was rejected, his earlier score was still the record, and Billy's old score was still third place. The Twin Galaxies forum has a section devoted to the film's inaccuracies.
My personal experience is... well, what I put in the letter. Nothing I wrote in "A Letter to the Prince of Kong" is fictional. There really is a great sense of camaraderie - at least, among most of the players. - ZM