One of the most riveting movies of 2007 was a documentary about classic video games. If you're the kind of movie goer that associates the word documentary with something you watched in History class and wouldn't be caught dead sitting through a non-fictional film, you need to start looking at the genre differently and your first step should be The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters. Kong features a story better than the ones that most of those striking writers could come up with in 2007, one that's so good that the film is actually being adapted into a narrative feature film. Solid proof that truth will always be stranger than fiction, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters could easily change the way you think about documentaries. And Donkey Kong.

King of Kong looks briefly at the entire world of classic gaming and the people who devote themselves to mastering arcade titles like Pac-Man, QBert and, of course, Donkey Kong. But director Seth Gordon tapped into an amazing story when he met Steve Wiebe, a man who was trying to take down the Goliath of the classic gaming world, Billy Mitchell. Billy set the record on Donkey Kong years ago and became the main icon of the classic gaming world. He's also kind of hard to take. Billy's a guy who wears Statue of Liberty ties and talks about how great he is at almost every opportunity to do so. Is he talented? Absolutely. He played a PERFECT Pac-Man game (every dot, every fruit, every ghost), which is kind of mind-boggling and Rainman-esque if you think about it. But he's also an easy villain, the powermonger on his throne, complete with devoted followers. Steve, on the other hand, is the everyman, if your idea of the everyman is "Second Place Steve." Wiebe opens King of Kong on a streak of some of the worst luck you can imagine, including getting fired the day he signed papers on his house. Just the attempt by Wiebe to tackle Mitchell is the kind of thing documentary filmmakers dream about and Gordon and his team turn it into movie magic in The King of Kong.

Luckily for fans of The King of Kong (and you already are one, you just don't know it yet), New Line pulls out all the stops for the DVD, making it one of their best releases in a while. The film comes with over 90 minutes of special features and that doesn't even include the two commentary tracks, one by director Gordon, Ed Cunningham, and associate producers J. Clay Tweel and Luis Lopez, and one by the Entertainment Editorial Director of IGN Chris Carle and the Founder of i am-8bit Jon M. Gibson. It's so cool to have a technical commentary and what is essentially a "fan commentary" on one disc. They offer very different perspectives. But the real gem is the bonus footage, which includes a number of interviews and Q&As shot after the film was screened. Steve Sanders, one of the more controversial figures in the film and a pioneer of classic gaming, offers a great defense of Billy Mitchell, but it's telling that Mitchell himself never shows up to discuss his depiction in the film. New Line also includes several extended interviews from the film, an arcade glossary, a cool gallery from i am 8-bit (where fans create art inspired by classic games), and a funny short film called "A Really, Really Brief History of Donkey Kong." The DVD even comes with a reversible cover featuring special packaging designed by artist Scott Campbell.

We don't say this often, but The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is close to a perfect DVD. The film itself will be the draw for people who haven't yet seen it and it's unlikely to fall short of expectations there. The movie has been given an appropriate video and audio treatment - nothing spectacular, but it doesn't warrant a DTS track. And fans of the movie are given a perfect amount of special features to enhance their love with some neat surprises like the reversible cover thrown in. It's all a fan could want. At least until the sequel.