Pac-Mac and The Masters

If you haven't seen, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, move it to the top of your Netflix queue as soon as possible. It's a hilarious documentary about classic "gamers" who are the best in the world at early '80s video games like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, MAPPY, and Burgertime.

Make sure you watch the special features, especially the interviews. You won't believe these guys are real. One part of the movie I found particularly amusing was when one of the key figures in the film, Billy Mitchell (the first person to ever get a perfect score in Pac-Man) uses a golf analogy to describe why real champions need to prove their ability in front of others rather than just mailing in their top scores on video-tape.

Here's the line from Billy: "To me, most important is to travel to a sanctioned location, like Funspot, that makes it official; if tomorrow Tiger Woods golfs a 59, big deal. If he does it at Augusta, that's where it counts."