Pinball.

So while I was in Plymouth visiting my girlfriend, I went to an arcade.

I forgot how much I love arcades.

This was not the average arcade though. There were modern games, you know, your Time Crisis machines and your Daytona USAs. Upstairs, things got real. The top floor of this arcade is FILLED ENTIRELY with old classic arcade games. Dig dug, Tapper, Double Dragon, Pole Position 1 & 2, mario bros, donkey kong, and even track and field (one of my favorites).

More importantly, there was an whole wall lined with pinball machines. After cashing 20 bucks for game tokens (almost all of these classics were 1 token mind you), I decided that I should play every pinball machine there. This is where is center this blog entry back in line with its goal.

Why do pinball machines have so many ways that you can lose a ball and have no way to prevent it from happening? On about a fourth of the machines I played, I had at least one ball that found its way past my flippers without me even pressing a single button.

Is there any skill at all involved in pinball? No matter how good your flipper hand is, there is ALWAYS that ball that goes RIGHT THROUGH THE MIDDLE. Or those two side lanes near the flippers that just send the ball out of play.

I just want to know which pinball guru decided that pinball should be the potentially easiest game to lose.



And those stupid "match" things and the end of each game are bullshit too. You never win those.