One of his record attempts fails because he leaves the machine to tend to his screaming son. But the film works because Wiebe is clearly a nice guy. It’s never really explained what drives Wiebe to install a Donkey Kong machine in his garage after losing his job – his wife says he has mild OCD and his mother thinks he might be autistic. The ‘hero’ is Californian family man Steve Wiebe, who weathers a dirty-tricks campaign to beat Mitchell (in the film, at least – in real life the battle continues), and becomes a minor celebrity along the way. The film’s ‘villain’ is strutting Billy Mitchell, a mullet-sporting arcade legend who has been setting Guinness world records since the Eighties.
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