Billy Mitchell, the competitive arcade gamer and former Donkey Kong world record holder, has settled his feud with arcade scorekeeping website Twin Galaxies, with the latter reinstating his records–albeit as a “historical database.”
Courthouse News Service reported last week that Mitchell’s lawsuit against Twin Galaxies reached a confidential settlement, months before the case was set to go to court. Today, both parties released their own statements about Mitchell’s contested records.
“Twin Galaxies has reinstated all of my world records from my videogame career,” started Mitchell’s statement, as posted to Twitter. He quoted part of Twin Galaxies’ own statement, before concluding with: “I am relieved and satisfied to reach this resolution after an almost six year ordeal and look forward to pursuing my unfinished business elsewhere.” Mitchell signs off his statement with “never surrender.”