Billy L. Mitchell, born July 16, 1965, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, is a video game player, best known for recording high scores in classics from the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Among his numerous accomplishments, he is best known for being the first person to achieve a perfect score in Pac-Man. Mitchell was featured in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, and is the owner of "Rickey's World Famous Sauces".
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Billy L. Mitchell, born July 16, 1965, in Holyoke, Massachusetts, is a video game player, best known for recording high scores in classics from the Golden Age of Arcade Games. Among his numerous accomplishments, he is best known for being the first person to achieve a perfect score in Pac-Man. Mitchell was featured in the 2007 documentary The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, and is the owner of "Rickey's World Famous Sauces".
Mitchell grew up in South Florida and began playing games at age sixteen. Already a dominant pinball player, he was at first uninterested in video games appearing in the early 80s until he noticed that "everyone was standing around the Donkey Kong machine and I wanted that attention".
Mitchell attended the Chaminade Catholic High School in 1983 and soon began work as a manager in the kitchen of his parents' restaurant, "Rickey's World Famous Restaurant". In the mid 90s, Mitchell had a short stint as a video game tester at Crystal Dynamics, in Menlo Park,...
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