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And now a dozen photos closing out the evening at Sparks.
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This is a little island of mostly late-80s pinball games near the handwriting analyzer, which is just on the right edge of the screen. One of those games is Bugs Bunny's Birthday Bash, which you never see and never play in a tournament (the game has a fun randomizer prank at the end that can give people ridiculous points or swap scores or other such competitive-play-wrecking goofiness).
Besides Showbiz Pizza there's also stuff from Aladdins Castle franchises.
Here's one of the more exciting walls, with a lot of early-80s games.
Up front's a counter with 80s vintage clutter, including a pre-2600 Atari and at least two Muppets-themed lunchboxes.
And here's a counter with plenty of Pee-Wee merchandise. Note that, for example, the little Pee-Wee doll sitting on Chairy in the Playhouse set (bottom center) doesn't count toward the sixteen dolls total. Also note the pride flags, which may not seem like a big thing until you remember how much pinball is about selling to middle-aged white guys who have ten thousand bucks they can put into a game machine the size of a dining table.
Sparks does try to educate about pinball history, and fortunately ``did you know pinball used to be against the law?'' is the sort of hook that makes for easy and very readable explanation.
View into the arcade from near the pinball history sign. Yes, that's a two-player Joust pinball machine on the left. Also I'm able to point to at least three of the Pee-Wee pull-string dolls that are in frame, though you'd be hard-pressed to locate them given the picture's darkness and resolution.
Back to the electronic handwriting analyzer; I think this was showing off how the machine feeds the cards out to the customer.
Here's the personality types that your handwriting might assign you. (This was a sample card; the machine wasn't remotely working so this is neither me nor bunny_hugger.)
The other side of the card explains how this is totally not bunk, which you need for the bunk to be satisfying.
Last game of the night: bunny_hugger mouses around a little. I don't know what's going on with the backglasses for Party Zone and Bugs Bunny's Birthday Bash to her right there.
Trivia: A beveled bookshelf has a small diagonal cut near the top edge of the shelf. A cambered shelf's upper side curves down to the flat lower shelf. A chamfered side is symmetrically curved top and bottom. Source: The Book On The Book Shelf, Henry Petroski.
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