There are Pinball Dudes all over the damn planet, man! Martin Ayub from the UK is a Dude, and so is Luke Wells! Ovidiu Cocina from Romania is a Dude, and Gabby Gabba too! Vaughan Thomas from Wales is a Dude! Don't even get me started on the US/CA/AU list of Dudes. It's a biggie!
I would have been about 23 when all the stuff in the movie went down. I lived and worked in West LA, which was really close to where the action happened. The Mar Vista Bowl on Venice Blvd. always had pins and a good videogame selection (I played Python's Star Rider there!), but our place was the Picwood Bowl on Pico and Westwood. Captain Video's Arcade on the corner with all the latest pins and vids, Games Unlimited for all your board/dart game needs, the Picwood Theater, and the Picwood Bowl, which was open 24 hours on the weekends and where we all went to wind down. Lotsa pins everywhere in West LA back then! All of that got wiped out and replaced with a fuckin' mall. And then Kelbo's on Pico and Sepulveda closed and that area wasn't any fun anymore.
I posted something similar to this in the Dudeism page on FacePlant. I think I blew their minds.
So, like, when are we gonna see some action here in Puget Sound, man?