Too busy going to, yes, Cedar Point to write. Have some Pinball At The Zoo pictures instead.
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bunnyhugger enjoying the Super Circus; she once again won head-to-head against me. Here, I believe, she's observing the graffiti carved into the woodrails, marks of the game's history that you could easily forget show are people's actions.
Oh yeah, finals are still going on, and folks are making their plans for the next round.
There were a couple of cocktail pinballs, short tables with small playfields meant to be played sitting down. They're hard --- losing the depth of playfield matters a surprising amount --- but here's a neat one titled Eros One, from Fascination International in 1979.
SAME SHOOTS PLAYER AGAIN.
Here's Caribbean Cruise, from Gottlieb in 1989, with a pretty good solution to the problem of where to put the scoreboard. Pretty solid game, too, possibly better than the average normal-size pinball game Gottlieb was making at this point.
Stern's new Foo Fighters table was out. It's themed to the band, yes, but also to your 70s/80s kids cartoon/toy-commercial property, which is why there's that Foobot on the backbox there; the game's theme has you assembling parts of it to fight off aliens. The fight is done by a multiball.
Trivia: Cannon Street in London was once Candlewick Street, where the candle-makers worked until they were forced to move due to the odor of the industry. Source: Old London Bridge: The Story of the Longest Inhabited Bridge in Europe, Patricia Pierce.
Currently Reading: The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human, Siddhartha Mukherjee.
