Psychologic Needs for the Movie King of Kong

The King of Kong Psychological Needs

Chin-Shan Hsueh

University of Central Oklahoma

Author Note

Chin-Shan Hsueh, class of Motive, Perception and Action, T from 6:00pm-08:48pm. Department of Psychology, College of Education & Professional Studies, University of Central Oklahoma, 100 N University Dr, Edmond, OK, 73034.

E-mail: chsueh@uco.edu

The king of kong psychologic needs

People’s psychological needs come from everywhere its basic on our daily life. Such as attention, self-esteem, understanding, trust, motivation, relationship and so on. The movie “ King of kong” talk about two different kinds of person but they all have the same motivation to get the highest score for the game donkey kong.

Billy Mitchell, a video game player who is the first person recording high scores in the donkey kong game. Almost twenty years, no one has been beyond his scores. After he became famous he own a restaurant and have a great hot sauce in his hometown. He use the game to get people’s attention. From the point of personal life he is a successful business man and husband. He has a bunch of challengers, also has a lot of fans.

Steve Wiebe, the typical American who live with parents and wife. In the eyes of others, he is successful person grew up to be a husband, father also a science teacher. But he did not think himself is successful person because he felt lack of confidence to give his family a good life, he put a lot of persure on himself. No matter the persure come form his family, job, even his whole life experiences. When he felt the pressure can not be express, he began to focus on the donkey kong game. But he found confidence from the video game so he start sat in front of the video game day and nigh to challenge Billy Mitchell’s highest score.

Wiebe used many different of methods to prove he is batter than Michel. But the interesting things began at this time. After Mitchell realized the king of the game may be took away by someone...