Aaah such has been the rush that apparently I didn’t make a post yesterday! And today has been so tiring that, while a lot of fun things happened today, I feel like it’ll take more time to write them up than I do right now, half an hour after midnight on Saturday.
VCFSE in Atlanta, while it has many interesting exhibits and lots to see, doesn’t have quite as much as VCFMW did last year. It makes up for this for being connected to Southern Fried Gaming Expo (SFGE), a convention devoted to all kinds of games-playing, includinng tabletop RPGs, board games, console games, computer games, arcade video games, and especially pinball. There are so many pinball machines! There’s even very new machines, like Pokemon and Sonic the Hedgehog, and a lab where you can work on building your own, or so the displays seemed to imply, but I’m not sure such a thing can even be done over a mere weekend.
Extracting the photos from my phone is more mental effort than I bring to bear at the moment, but they will be coming. In the meantime, you may be interested to know that I have the #1 score on the Addams Family Gold machine at SFGE, and Grand Champion on it is in my sights: my fourth game on it ended up with me Touring the Mansion twice. It helps a lot that it’s set up to award extra balls from score, meaning high-scoring games tend to become even more high scoring. By contrast, the Twilight Zone machine they have is set on tournament settings, so it doesn’t award any extra balls at all.
See you soon!
