Subj : Re: Brr
To   : Rob Mccart
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Tue Nov 25 2025 22:47:02

-=> Rob Mccart wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

 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.

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

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

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

 RM> I definitely did that twice, possibly 3 times..

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

Love it!!!

I didn't know there was a limit like that. :-) I enjoyed the pre-
digital days where you could 'roll over' the score. :-)



.... Got my tie caught in the fax... Suddenly I was in L.A.
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