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Once. Twice. Three Times. Now Four. I just love writing about the "King of Kong" documentary and the rivalry it chronicles between "Donkey Kong" masters Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe.

The film finally comes out this weekend.

On Friday, to celebrate the occasion, I wrote my fourth article about it. This one has me catching up with the filmmakers and finding out who they want to cast in the dramatization of the doc (Johnny Depp and Greg Kinnear, ideally). The filmmakers also tease me with the amazing possibilities of a "King of Kong" all about "Arkanoid."From my article:

...they admit there's a great "Arkanoid" story for them to tackle someday. The top two players in that classic arcade game include a man who's in prison and a Minor League Baseball reporter who claims to have caught more foul balls than anyone else in the world — and wrote a book about it. "It makes sense that a person who understands how to break all those bricks [in 'Arkanoid'] is thinking about angles," ["KoK" director Seth] Gordon said.

So hit the link above to read article #4. And then there's my earlier articles on the film...

(SPOILER NOTE: I strongly recommending seeing the film before reading these stories. I've tried to keep spoilers to a minimum but it's not too hard to figure out who comes out on top in the movie once you start reading my stories)

My other coverage includes a two-parter about the controversy surrounding what's in the film and whether the documentary; the second part includes Billy Mitchell's first interview about the film. My third piece is more recent, and covers a major "DK" high-score event that happened after the documentary's conclusion.