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One of the Wii games I like and never get enough time to play is the Bally Pinball Hall of Fame. It's tough getting free time and the living room TV set available simultaneously. But that pinball game sold well enough to inspire the release of Gottlieb Pinball Hall of Fame, featuring games that I never actually played in physical form but that's just because they predate my peak pinball-playing era and, for many of them, ramps.
After not noticing the game turning up in Best Buy or Target for a couple months after its official release date, I built up my anti-shyness and asked a clerk about it. He looked it up on the computer, interpreting my ``Gottleib'' as ``Gockley'' although the database figured it out somehow, and determined that not only did they have it in stock but this store had three copies. It wasn't on the shelves. He checked with another employee and they conculded from the $19.99 price it was probably in the discount games bin up front. The discount game bins (selling for $4.99 and $9.99, incidentally) didn't have much in them, but I could see, they also didn't have pinball simulations in it.
So I went back, trying to find an equivalent employee and one from the Geek Squad was the first I caught (ahead of pack of three blue-shirted employees). He looked it up again, and then went to the shelves where he verified the game wasn't out there. He disappeared in back for just long enough that I started to feel awkward and started composing hypothetical responses if another customer asked if I needed help, and came back with one copy of the game for me --- and it's a good thing I had already decided I wanted it, since after all that fuss I'd have felt too shy not to buy it --- and a second for the shelves. Where the third one in the store went, I could not guess.
Trivia: Cows expend about a fifth of all the calories they consume in the process of chewing. Source: The Genie in the Bottle, Joe Schwarcz.
Currently Reading: The Ultimate History Of Video Games, Steven L Kent.
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Date: 2010-03-15 05:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-16 04:21 am (UTC)Ah, but buying stuff online is so ... online-y. Besides, my only need to buy one now is as a present to someone.
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Date: 2010-03-15 10:16 am (UTC)Looking over the box and giving them a "thanks, anyway" is a bit awkward...
Cows expend about a fifth of all the calories they consume in the process of chewing.
My son told me once that celery has negative calories for the same reason: it takes more energy to chew it up than your body retrieves from it.
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Date: 2010-03-15 05:16 pm (UTC)--Chi
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Date: 2010-03-16 04:28 am (UTC)Although when you factor in the bleu cheese dressing that may change a little.
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Date: 2010-03-16 04:36 am (UTC)I think the worst of it is I just know big stores send clerks over to be helpful so that shy people like me feel like they can't not buy whatever was set in their hands.
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Date: 2010-03-15 08:47 pm (UTC)I'd grin if I could!
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Date: 2010-03-16 04:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-16 04:25 am (UTC)Fortunately, somehow, it works.
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Date: 2010-03-16 04:23 am (UTC)It's so. I do much better when I don't need to ask anyone anything.
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Date: 2010-03-16 09:05 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-17 02:28 am (UTC)Wii's got at least two games based on real actual pinballs with tables that, in some cases, I used to play obsessively. It's also got some fantasy pinballs, but I can't say anything about their quality.
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Date: 2010-03-17 02:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-03-18 04:16 am (UTC)I remember seeing that one, but never encountered a computer with it on to play.