ROLLER DISCO: THE PINBALL GAME
Dec. 8th, 2008 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogToday in Roller Skate Week, we continue the roller-disco theme with – what else? – the official Roller Disco pinball machine.
Which is not only perfect for a craze that could only have happened in the 70s, but also proves the axiom that no trend can be declared a permanent part of the pop culture lexicon until it gets its own pinball game.
DISCLAIMER: That axiom probably expired around 1995 or so. Which is a goddamn shame. Pinball is the perfect game. Why I wouldn’t give two cents for yr fancy Xbox 360s and PSPs and 3D graphics engines and motion sensors. Okay, sure, I enjoy a good round of Bomberman and Asphalt 3: Street Rules like anyone else, and the Nintendo Wii baseball and bowling games are pretty whiz-bang and all, but give me a silver ball, two flippers and a plunger any day. Nothing – apart from the first time you ever tasted someone else’s nipple – matches the sheer thrill of achieving Multiball and hearing the THOCK! of free credit awards.
Or am I jabbering senselessly like yr drunk uncle again?
It’s all in the wrist,
This is dF
Which is not only perfect for a craze that could only have happened in the 70s, but also proves the axiom that no trend can be declared a permanent part of the pop culture lexicon until it gets its own pinball game.
DISCLAIMER: That axiom probably expired around 1995 or so. Which is a goddamn shame. Pinball is the perfect game. Why I wouldn’t give two cents for yr fancy Xbox 360s and PSPs and 3D graphics engines and motion sensors. Okay, sure, I enjoy a good round of Bomberman and Asphalt 3: Street Rules like anyone else, and the Nintendo Wii baseball and bowling games are pretty whiz-bang and all, but give me a silver ball, two flippers and a plunger any day. Nothing – apart from the first time you ever tasted someone else’s nipple – matches the sheer thrill of achieving Multiball and hearing the THOCK! of free credit awards.
Or am I jabbering senselessly like yr drunk uncle again?
It’s all in the wrist,
This is dF
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on 2008-12-08 05:20 pm (UTC)Sure plays a mean pinball!