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To: algore
REAL pinball with electromechanical bumpers, flippers, the spring-loaded knob you pull back, solenoids, relays, flashing incandescent lights, mechanical scorekeepers, and bells. And Tilt for when you got too, uh, boisterous.

NO electronic noises of any kind.

Those were the days.

I can’t remember the name of a single game, though.


44 posted on 10/17/2021 7:07:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Everything Woke turns to shit.” ~ President Donald Trump)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Megaditto. Just pinball, never video games.
Uncoordinated as I was I somehow learned pinball techniques and became terrific.

I seemed to go into a zone in which I observed myself playing from outside of myself. My buddy called it “going Zen” when I did it. The ball seemed to move wherever I felt it should move.


57 posted on 10/17/2021 7:17:58 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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