No time for writing today; I've been busy writing things to cover the weekend ahead, for reasons I'll write about in time. This does too make sense. Please enjoy some pictures from the Bells and Chimes tournament that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger and I attended last month instead.
Start of the tournament. It's got that nice quilt style of carpeting that the Special When Lit facility in Fremont has; I don't know if that's just how carpeting is done in places anymore or if someone knows a good quilt-style floor carpet person near Grand Rapids.
NBA Jam! Everything I know about early-90s basketball I learned from watching people play out matches in the student union. Also note on the back posters for the quite bad movies Pinball Summer and Joysticks. Also, beneath the Joysticks poster, a poster made of that pinball-backglass jigsaw puzzle bunnyhugger did a couple months back.
On the flip side, as it were, they've got a Baby Pac-Man combination pinball/video game that I didn't get around to playing for some reason.
bunnyhugger getting started on Flash in what would be a disappointing first ball (is my recollection) turned into quite a good game in the end.
Torpedo Alley is a pretty fun game, especially coming from Data East of the late 80s, and I remember how kindly it treated me at Pinburgh. It was no less kind to bunnyhugger in the tournament. And yet the backglass --- a posed photograph, as was Data East's custom of the time --- cracks us up every time.
This Flash turns out not just to be a game enough like Blackout that bunnyhugger could win on it, it turns out to be a veteran of Pinburgh! When ReplayFX shut down the foundation sold off its great collection and at least some of the tables can still be found.
Trivia: Italian wine was, by the start of the first century, being shipped as far as Northern India. Source: A History of the World in Six Glasses, Tom Standage.
Currently Reading: Gemini 4: An Astronaut Steps Into The Void, David J Shayler.
