Here's the story... I am currently in Raleigh, North-Carolina for business with Caterpillar (they have 3 factories in the area...). So I finally got off my fat a** and went to "Adventure Landing", which is this cool amusement place with go-karts, laser-tag, and a mess load of redemption games and arcade games... including a pin, Twilight Zone.
So I start playing some vids (keeping the pin for last...), and I am REALLY kicking a**, which doesn't happen often to me on vids... 230000 on Turbo Ms.Pacman (my previous record was 75000...), and I was beating senseless the local kids on a Fast & Furious driving game.
After a while, what seems to be the manager of the place comes to see me and says he recognized the website on my shirt (I was wearing my MAACA shirt!!!). He says he is a big pinball fan and reads RGP every day, and has seen our site. Of course, i tell him who I am (the idiot with the most posts!!!), and we just start chatting...
He tells me after I mention the now-defunct Triangle Pinball League that he was a member years ago! So after arguing who has (or had) the best league, I decided to lay down the challenge...
Twilight Zone
3 games
No holds barred!
If he won, I bought him pizza and beer.
If I won?... a 2-foot tall Bob the Builder stuffie for my future son!!!
Here are the scores:
Game 1 MAACA = 1 275 000 000 (almost made Lost In The Zone...) TPL = 945 000 000
Game 2 MAACA = 3 754 000 000 (LOST IN THE ZONE 3 times!!!! My best game EVER!!!) Machine grand champion! TPL = 1 278 000 000
Game 3 (for fun even if I won already) MAACA = 2 598 000 000 (Lost in the Zone AGAIN!!!) TPL = 1 164 000 000
BOOYAH!
Meeting someone from a fellow pinball league? fun.
Beating his sorry a** at his own pinball machine? Awesome.
Winning a Bob the Builder stuffie for my future son at a pinball tournament?
2) WE (Three Frogs and a Squarehead aka Spacecadet28, MrHide, Frosken and TwilightZone) are the first MAACA winners of an international tournament (PINBRAWL at Pinball Expo 2004!)
Glad that you found the place and had fun...
Frosken...goin' to bed...
Current 'working' lineup: ( 2 ) Flipper Football, The Shadow
Gone but not forgotten: ( 22 ) City Slicker, Dirty Harry, CFTBL, Big Shot, Big Guns, Black Rose, Judge Dredd, Indianapolis 500, Big Game, BS: Dracula x 2, Beat the Clock, Fire!, F-14 Tomcat, Getaway, Breakshot, Cheetah, Meteor, El Dorado, Nitro Ground Shaker, Chexx Hockey, Slugfest
It's gotta be the shirt man! Some kinda weird, freaky, good luck, mojo thing going on there for sure.
Ian, what the he**. It's friday night and you've been gone all week... What are you doing posting here, isn't there something else you would rather be doing?
Adam
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Oh crap! the laundry, I knew I was forgetting something, I'll be right back!
O.K I'm back.
Well..er..um, Oh heck I don't know, I was just trying to start a conversation.
You see I'm home alone with my cat and dog...My Wife went to Minneapolis with her friends...and my daughter is staying at her Grandmothers...
I was going to rent a movie but couldn't think a title...besides I'm kinda tired... and I have to go to camp tomorrow to begin a bathroom renovation...
Oh geez! this is getting weird...
Adam
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Bathroom renovation? ...Lucky bastard... I love house renos... Honestly. I got the taste for it whilre building my house, and I miss it. So much, that I am looking into building another...
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