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Couple of notes on the game room article...

You may have seen the news about J-Lo's mom winning 2.4 million at the Borgata this past Saturday. Well, my friends and I were at the Borgata this past Saturday. One of these friends played the same slots -- Wheel of Fortune -- of which there were only a few. The rest of us stood behind him in disbelief as the machine ate sixty bucks without giving back a single friggin' cherry back. It was unbelievable -- I've never seen a colder machine in my life, and no more than a couple of hours later, that damn slut hit 2.4 million on 'em. Could've very well been the same machine. On the upside, the Borgata is the only place in Atlantic City that serves pomegranate margaritas in glasses the size of mobile homes. And, while it's not the only place to serve Japanese food, it's definitely the sole distributor of a heavenly appetizer called "Miso Horny Soup." Not kidding.

My pal Kevin (longtime readers may remember him as "Toast," a friend of X-E from the old days) noticed and recognized the one video machines shown in the game room article that wasn't explicitly mentioned -- Midway's "Touch Master." He was one of the developers on the game, and was pretty surprised to see it as he's sure no more than 50 were ever sold. So, the Quality Inn's not just a cesspool...it's a museum. Anyway, the article's been the most well-received in a long while, so losing my shirt to nickel slots was worth it. Movie review coming up next, stay tuned.

Posted by Matt on 04/06/2004. E-mail me!



Discussion Thread: 45 comments

John Woo Bringing Metroid to the Big Screen
http://comingsoon.net/news.php?id=4202
Watch the Metroid commercial from Alex Proyas (The Crow, Dark City and I, Robot):
http://www.animallogic.com/commercials/metroidprime/

John Woo knows nostalgia!
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/430/430962p1.html?fromint=1
"July 29, 2003 – IGN FilmForce checked in with its trusty source close to director John Woo about recent rumors that the filmmaker was interested in helming an updated version of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Much to our surprise, our source confirmed that Woo is indeed very interested in the project but that was over a year ago."

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/451/451403p1.html?fromint=1
"September 24, 2003 – Variety scoops that the classic sci-fi series Lost in Space may be returning to TV. The trade says that Synthesis Entertainment, founded by Kevin Burns and Jon Jashni, will partner with filmmaker John Woo and screenwriter Doug Petrie (Buffy, Angel) on the new series which is currently being shopped around to networks."

http://www.japattack.com/japattack/film/johnwoo.html
"…PM: There‚s been some talk about you producing a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film.

JW: Not anymore, although we are involved with He-Man and Mighty Mouse projects. We are negotiating right now. I,ll only be involved as a producer.

PM: He-Man and Mighty Mouse?

JW: Yeah."

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 04/07/2004 11:30 AM

I’ll just try to stay on topic (yeah, right) and remember early Video Game memories. I’ve played Pong in a Pizza Hut in San Leandro, when Pong was new. I’ve seen the early days of both MTV and Video Games when you culd put anything on the screens and it was cool. I’ve played Journey, both arcade and Atari 2600. Anybody ever play Atari’s Hercules, the HUMONGOUS pinball machine? The one I remember had to temporarily replace it’s ball with a billiard ball. Eight, of course. On the subject of winnings, my dad works at a tribal casino, and Little Brother, his wife, and meself went to visit him at work a couple of months ago. Brother glommed onto a penny slot machine, and I wasted a couple of bucks on poker, when there was a fuss a couple of aisles over. A lady, who had been there since noon, and spending who knows how much, hit a big jackpot. A few thousand, at least. After a attendant checked the machine and made it print out a confirmation, she tilted her chair against the machine, went to a payout desk for her check, came back, and started playing again. Wow. You could hear the hard-core gamblers practically slam their dollars into the machines after that. Later, Pops told us he got a big tip. We should have told him, "You owe Mom child support, give us some money!"

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/07/2004 12:12 PM

I think my earliest childhood memory is trying to fill my little brother’s crib (I was probably about 2ish) with all his toys. I just wanted him to have something to play with, but I guess my mom freaked out because she thought I was trying to suffocate him. I don’t know if I actually remember that or if the story has just been told so many times that I think I do.

Chestnuts roasted by Gabbylicious @ 04/07/2004 12:44 PM

My earliest childhood memory must be me sitting in a little sled, going down a small hill on a parking-ot and gliding under dad’s car and getting stuck there. After I was thawed loose I was taken to the hospital where I got a few stitches in the corner of my eye. Even after over 20 years my eyelid still gets stuck once in a while :)
I must’ve been three or four so most of this has been told to me later in life.
Another happy memory could from the summer after my sled-accident when I stood on a table on our balcony in the third floor and almost jumped off. Later I stuck my head between the handrails and couldn’t get myself loose. Obviously I wasn’t a very smart kid.
On the other hand I am still alive so I must’ve learned somehthing.

Chestnuts roasted by iivuli @ 04/07/2004 1:19 PM

Wow, I just noticed on the Final Fantasy 11 ad that pops up on the right sometimes, that they have the Critters alien in that top picture. Matt, you love Critters! Maybe you should give it a whirl.

Chestnuts roasted by Cobra Soldier #18 @ 04/07/2004 1:25 PM

I know what you’re talking about Starwenn. I’m going down to AC Thursday night with friends, and we absolutely refused to stay off the boardwalk. I took Friday off just because the room rates were cheaper at Showboat than on the weekend. I hate just driving to get to the casino. I’m sure my time won’t be as interesting as Matt’s though. And I know not to play Wheel of Fortune, since that’s already paid out!!

And Ed’s Funcade was always my favorite. Until they stopped putting new arcade games in a started replacing them all with fake slot machines and those things that push the quarters over the edge. And the sad thing is, the games that are left are so old, but I remember them being new and so technological.

Chestnuts roasted by Y2JB78 @ 04/07/2004 1:59 PM

Whoooo Movie review.

Chestnuts roasted by Meatwad @ 04/07/2004 2:29 PM

Ah…. getting your head stuck in the handrails. I swear, it only happens to us geniuses. The one my mother enjoys telling is when I got my foot caught on one of the top links of a chainlink fence in our yard I was trying to climb… she found me who knows how long after it happened, dangling upside down from the fence.

Chestnuts roasted by Nachokhaki @ 04/07/2004 2:39 PM

Not related to anything here, but just another thing with kitties from the home of the Quizno’s Songmonkeys. I just like the idea of hard-rockin’ housecats. click-click meow!

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/07/2004 2:42 PM

I also got my big ol’ head stuck in a rail when I was a wee tot, by the way.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/07/2004 2:44 PM

Y2J: Those Machines that push quarters over the edge is beast. That’s only if you know how to do them. My cousin, his friend and I did that thing while we were at Busch Gardens Williamsburg. In like 2 hours we must’ve had like 10,000 tickets. The sad thing was that the prizes stunk. We tried to get a glass chess set. But for some odd reason they were all out. That or it’s a dummy prize. I swear the guy running the counter looked pretty nervous when we asked for it. He went to the back room probably talking to his boss. I bet this was the conversation.

Worker: Yo Boss some smart asses want the glass chess set. What should I do?

Boss: Just tell those meddling punks that we’re a bunch of fuck tards and we don’t carry chess sets. Offer them those horryfying hobbit characters.

Chestnuts roasted by Rowan Steele @ 04/07/2004 3:07 PM

Matt,

I dunno if I’m too late for you to actually read this or not, but me and some friends are traveling from MD to Jersey in a few weeks to Asbury Park for Skate and Surf fest. It’s a three day concert, proble is, day two sold out before we could get our money together.

We are going to day one and day 3, and we were thinking that for day 2 we might venture to Atlantic City. Whats a good place to hang while in Atlantic city. Just looking for assistance from someone who obviously knows it better then I do. Also, about how far is asbury park from atlantic city. According to my calculations, the hotal says we are 5 miles away from long island.

Chestnuts roasted by Chad @ 04/07/2004 3:38 PM

kingklash, Atari Hercules pinball:
http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?1155

Chestnuts roasted by ME @ 04/07/2004 5:23 PM

I’ve played the Hercules pinball machine. There was one at the Guiness World Records Museum at Niagara Falls. It uses a cue ball for crying out loud.

Chestnuts roasted by JG! @ 04/07/2004 7:23 PM

Me…i’m well aware. But thanks anyway ;)

Chestnuts roasted by Frank @ 04/08/2004 1:28 AM

That table just randomly stuck in the corner somehow made me flashback to The Sims. As though it was something you just stuck in the corner to increase your Sim’s "Room" meter before he leaves for work.

I think I spotted an old-style plush smurf in the claw machine. I’d'a gone for the smurf.

I like Snyder’s of Hanover’s sweet honey mustard pretzels, but they’re about twenty kajillion calories per bite.

Chestnuts roasted by Molten @ 04/08/2004 10:48 AM

Matt should have a couple of arcade-style games here, like the Neave Pac-Man. I have about ten online Pac-games bookmarked, including the teeny-tiny, itty-bitty Guimp Pac-Man. Always my favorite game, Pac-Man is.

Chestnuts roasted by kingklash @ 04/08/2004 11:48 AM

The student union at my college had both the tabletop Ms. Pac-Man AND the 4-player version of the X-Men arcade game. Hooo baby… and my parents wondered why I never had any money freshman year.

Chestnuts roasted by The Lucky One @ 04/09/2004 1:38 PM

The machine was cold because J. Lo and everybody related to her has to be cold, too. So it was a J. Lo machine :)
So, on an X-E related note, I stopped by the Hannaford in Augusta last night. I picked up a drink called Spritzer Boysonberry and that Yan-Yan stuff. Yes, they had Yan-Yan (I WAS looking for Pocky sticks, to be truthful). I picked up the package and said… "Where have I seen THESE before?".

Chestnuts roasted by AngeFaitore @ 04/10/2004 9:56 AM

Wow, that really is a crappy "game room" (if anyone can dare to call it that). The World Cup ’94 pinball table was fairly easy to find… I always found that particular game fun to play and not too frustrating (in fact, it’s the only pinball game where I ever got a free game).

Too bad that it didn’t even work… then again, considering the state everything was in there, I wouldn’t dare to touche anything. Matt, next time you go to AC, just bring a console along… at least you’d know you won’t get nightmares over the stuff you would’ve touched.

Chestnuts roasted by Lady Jaye @ 04/11/2004 6:32 PM

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