Pinball, motorcycling and sniffles
Attended the regular gamenight yesterday despite having the beginnings of a flu picked up. The sniffles were not enough to deter me from seeing what new goodies had arrived - as I’d missed the previous session, I was pretty sure that there was something new to see.
And there was… The count of pinball machines had increased to a grand total of nine, with the additions of Revenge from Mars and another Pat Lawlor classic, FunHouse. The former new arrival was an unknown to me, but a couple of games proved that it’s a worthy table all right. As the first Pinball 2000 game I’d played in an age, the presence of a projector on the playfield took some time to get used to. FunHouse was its familiar unyielding self, and like Lawlor’s followup game, Addams Family, merciless with its lack of a ball-saving grace period. With the new arrivals, most of the time given to pinball was spent on these two, though I did enjoy a duo of good games on Safecracker, netting a name on the list with both a regular game and a subsequent assault.
Videogames-wise, the festivities were muted by the x360 succumbing to a hardware fault. Wii, good old PS2 and Xbox were used instead. Was still bothered by the lack of precision in putting in Wii Sports, the game has golf pretty much turned on its head - drilling home long shots is almost trivial, whereas the near game remains unpredictable due to the imprecision in controls. Managed to suck so bad at the xboxified Moto GP that an exit from the sport was advisable. Scored a single goal in half a dozen PES games, but set up lots more with assists and blew some certain shots. When the Wii version of the Big Brain Academy was brought out, I took it to be an exit cue, as flu-induced grogginess would’ve neatly added an extra layer of difficulty in the game.
All in all, yet another great evening with electronic entertainment.
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