::: I went to the Silverball museum recently ... The games are all on free play, with the cost covered by the entry charge.
You mean this Silver Ball Museum (http://silverballmuseum.com/), in Asbury Park, which is a locale among the 99.9% of New Jersey locales with which I am completely unfamiliar?
That's different than the Pinball Hall of Fame (http://pinballmuseum.org/) in Las Vegas: entry is free, but the games are the original price. At least the 1990s games were -- I didn't move backwards through the 1960s-'80s end of the room to see if there was temporally-reversed inflation.
There was a "Star Trek" machine I was specifically interested in for nostalgia reasons, and I'd completely forgotten that, after feeding the machine quarters, you have to press the "start" button. The big and red, but not illuminated, button. It was a dark room.
Hmmm, the list (http://pinballmuseum.org/games.php) reads "Star Trek 25th, Data East, 1987." That can't be right: the 25th anniversary was 1991, because I distinctly recall the TV special during high school, and also drawing alternate logos in NewTek DigiPaint III on the school's Amiga. Also, when I played it at CMU in 1992, it was much too shiny to have been around for five years.
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Date: 2010-09-15 01:00 am (UTC)You mean this Silver Ball Museum (http://silverballmuseum.com/), in Asbury Park, which is a locale among the 99.9% of New Jersey locales with which I am completely unfamiliar?
That's different than the Pinball Hall of Fame (http://pinballmuseum.org/) in Las Vegas: entry is free, but the games are the original price. At least the 1990s games were -- I didn't move backwards through the 1960s-'80s end of the room to see if there was temporally-reversed inflation.
There was a "Star Trek" machine I was specifically interested in for nostalgia reasons, and I'd completely forgotten that, after feeding the machine quarters, you have to press the "start" button. The big and red, but not illuminated, button. It was a dark room.
Hmmm, the list (http://pinballmuseum.org/games.php) reads "Star Trek 25th, Data East, 1987." That can't be right: the 25th anniversary was 1991, because I distinctly recall the TV special during high school, and also drawing alternate logos in NewTek DigiPaint III on the school's Amiga. Also, when I played it at CMU in 1992, it was much too shiny to have been around for five years.