Seth Gordon's The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007) follows the pursuits of Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe as each tries to achieve the world's highest score in the video game Donkey Kong. The popularity of video games today would suggest that video game players represent more the mainstream than a subculture, but the obsessive levels to which Mitchell and Wiebe chase their dreams offer that such levels of devotion are outside the mainstream. When the film was released, it was praised by criticsin part due to the way that Gordon portrays the passion of Mitchell and Wiebe. At first glance the viewer might find the pursuits of these video game players to be quite odd, but as the film develops this view likely changes as we are exposed to the different personalities of Mitchell and Wiebe (who are portrayed as the "bad boy" and the "good guy"). This becomes the strongest value of the film as we see the different paths that each of them takes down the road to Donkey Kong stardom.