In 2019, it was discovered that Billy Mitchell used an emulator to cheat on all of his scores of over 1 million points. Mitchell has since tried to sue critics to silence them.
Steve Wiebe regained the title on September 20, 2010 with 1,064,500 points.
The project originally began as a documentary about competitive gaming in general - it wasn't until the film was well into production that the crew discovered the events surrounding Wiebe and Mitchell, and decided to re-focus the film entirely on this rivalry. This largely accounts for the amount of coverage the film gives to minor players, such as the elderly Q*Bert champion. By the time production ended, over 300 hours of video had been shot.
Several of those depicted in the documentary, including Wiebe and Mitchell themselves, claim that it does not accurately depict events. For example, Wiebe and Mitchell were, and still are, on much friendlier terms than is suggested, and another player's record was in place during some of the events but is omitted. The director has conceded to many of these claims in statements, arguing that the fictionalized account is more entertaining.
While the movie claims that Billy Mitchell held the Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Junior records since 1982 before Steve Wiebe came along, there were numerous scores higher than Mitchell's validated by Twin Galaxies in the early 1980s that went missing during Mitchell's time as a scoreboard editor. His 1982 Donkey Kong score was also beaten in 2000 by Tim Sczerby, whose name is omitted from the film but seen on a computer screen for a moment when Walter Day is entering Mitchell's taped score.