Subj : Re: Brr
To   : DARYL STOUT
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sun Nov 23 2025 08:13:46

DS>  No telling how much money I spent over the years playing pinball,
  >earning a Master Of Student Union and a Doctor Of Pinball in college,
  >when I wasn't studying for my Bachelor Of Arts in Radio, TV, and Film.

In my misspent youth, age 16 or 17, I spent a lot of hours hanging
around in a pool hall that had a few pinball machines. I had a
favourite I played most of the time and I learned all the tricks to
make points and we used to have a contest to see if we could do what
we called 'Beating the Machine'..

That might sound like winning a free game but, what it involved was
running the machine out of free games. Most machines could only rack
up 15 free games, and then if you won one more, it made a loud 'CLACK'
sound, and the whole place would know that you had 'Beat the Machine'.

At that point, you usually grabbed some kid and told him he had 15
free games to play and walked away..

I definitely did that twice, possibly 3 times..

It drove the owners nuts because you can imagine the how much
time you had tied up that machine on just one lousy quarter..   B)

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