Lavonardo

Spent saturday evening enjoying some quality electronic entertainment in good company.

Amongst the pinball machines there was one change, Getaway had been replaced with World Cup Soccer, celebrating the 1994 cup played in the states. The game was very pleasant, spent perhaps 80% of the pinball time on it, and liked the flow of the board a lot. It took a while to get used to the field, and by then I had miraculously lost the ability to hit the television shot - which meant that high scores were not easy to grab. Ended up with a 748M high, inadequate for a replay.

Twilight Zone was its old tough self, even with the ballsaver enabled it’s a cruel game to play. No heroics on the board, apart from the game where the power was defeated thrice - like with World Cup had trouble with some of the shots and didn’t play many games.

Broke into the vault in Safecracker once, but failed to get a decent score on both the assault and regular modes.

The big new addition videogames-wise was Donkey Konga. Three drumkits on a table put up quite a cacophony, and neatly drowned the music. This is one of those rare games where watching the players is almost as fun as actually playing the game. All video clips of the hours spent on this have been incinerated to protect the innocent.

Had my first exposure to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and found it a very pleasant FPS to play. Only hacked through a couple of 4-way deathmatches, but that was enough to convince me that this game so needs buying. Once the current backlog subsides a little.

NHL08 and Virtua Tennis 3 proved that I still can’t play either. The games this time did resemble the actual sport more than on previous occasions, so at least some of the participants have been learning. Was almost held scoreless in four Pro Evolution Soccer games, but snagged an ugly goal off a corner in the last game. As with the previous duo, our football games are definitely improving with time.