Coming to conclusions, button up your lips

Too busy going to, yes, Cedar Point to write. Have some Pinball At The Zoo pictures instead.

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.

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Oh yeah, finals are still going on, and folks are making their plans for the next round.

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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.

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SAME SHOOTS PLAYER AGAIN.

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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.

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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.

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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.