The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters Page #3

and, for whatever reason,

he could never get those to fit.

Steve was in one of the original

starving grunge bands

Here in Seattle,

just starving.

The only people who came to see him was us.

With his music it's almost like...

he didn't want people to know

he was doing it.

He is a total paradox.

He has maybe a little social hang-ups

here and there, that...

that haven't allowed him to be as successful

on one end as in other ends.

They got to the state finals,

and Steve couldn't pitch.

I have probably seen Steve with tears in his eyes

More than any other guy I know...

because of the frustration

that would build in him.

and half the time

it was on the pitcher's mound.

He had hurt his arm.

I had pitched him too much.

I was the manager of the team.

It was a chance for him to shine

in front of thousands of people.

That killed him that he couldn't pitch,

Because it is that competitiveness in him.

I envisioned him as

an engineer at Boeing.

My dad worked for Boeing

for 30 some years...

And the plan was to go to Boeing

and be a "lifer".

As they call them.

But things didn't work out.

I don't know if he told you he was laid off

the day we signed papers for our house? Yeah.

He never has quite reached that pinnacle.

He never quite in any of his endeavors

Was regaled as the number one guy.

The guy that was better then the rest,

and was on top of the mountain.

Oh, he has just come up short

in a lot of things in his life

And just I think, you know...

nobody wants to do that all the time.

It has my highest score

saved on there, the last.

What plunged me into competitive gaming

never to come out, was Donkey Kong.

Donkey Kong.

Well that was THE first ever Mario game.

The whole thing is a construction sight.

There's all these girders

and elevators with ladders.

Going from one girder to the next.

The whole goal the whole time

is to get pass the obstacles

that Kong is throwing at you.

And get the girl.

Well Donkey Kong, without question,

is the hardest game.

It's ridiculously difficult

on the first screen.

Donkey Kong is releasing these barrels.

You got to jump over the barrels.

You got to duck to the barrels.

You can grab a hammer,

and hammer the barrels.

OK, the secret about the barrel board

is that you can

actually control the barrels.

Right above this ladder...

You do a quick left

and then a hard right turn.

See how it went down, it went down again.

You gotta get pass all the barrels,

the fireballs,

get up the ladders,

and as soon as you get to her

Donkey Kong takes her away

to the next level.

The average Donkey Kong game

doesn't last a minute.

It's absolute brutality.

Each of the 18 elevator boards

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