I heard the magic in our first hello

[austin_dern]

Now, for picture from the Michigan Pinball Expo:

bunny_hugger getting ready to have words with how a vintage pinball machine treats us at the Michigan Pinball Expo, 2015.

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And then suddenly everybody's mother's friends from college came in to play some games.

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Their outfits are a little bit out of period with the pinball machine's date but otherwise, well, what a scene.

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My 10-point first ball on a qualifying round of Target Alpha. I did not qualify for the tournament finals.

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Bonus scoring on Jersey Jack's new pinball table The Hobbit. I don't know if this is placeholder text or if they're figuring it will look more impressive written in Elvish.

Trivia: The Hollywood Revue of 1929 began rehearsals on 4 February 1929. It wrapped, finally, on 11 June. Source: The Speed of Sound, Scott Eyman.

Currently Reading: Tomorrow and Tomorrow And ... , Isaac Asimov. It's always easy to be wise after the fact, but, well, Isaac in population-bomb terror mode talking of how sex-for-recreation will become commonly accepted around the 1990s, thanks to the lesson of the inevitable famines wracking India and Indonesia through the 1980s? Man.

PS: A Summer 2015 Mathematics A To Z: hypersphere, which is not just a sphere that's moving very fast.

Comments

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

Outstanding pics! ... and so someone wants $1.25 million for their pinball machine?

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

Who wouldn't, if they could get it?

But, you know, if you make the best offer close to that they might take that instead.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

Their outfits are a little bit out of period

Are you denying your tattoos?

I am a little surprised to find you declining the "$1250 OBO" invitation on Target Alpha.

[bunny-hugger.livejournal.com]

That actually seemed like kind of a high price for Target Alpha to me, but it must be more in demand than I thought. Other games of that vintage at the show were for sale for $800 or less.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

It did seem high to me, too. According to the Internet Pinball Database the original El Dorado had a production run of 2,875 machines. (http://www.ipdb.org/search.pl?any=el+dorado&search=Search+Database&searchtype=quick) Its Target Alpha re-themed release had a run of 7,285 (!). And then there's variants like Canada Dry to put another 2,885 of the machine on the market.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

I think I'm too naturally fickle a person to support tattoos. Maybe if they ever get some kind of electronic-paper implant, though.

Would you spend that kind of money on a game that gave you ten points?