We had a crowd of normal people visit the arcade Friday night, and by normal, I mean not like us. They played 364 total games, distributed as:
| Game | Plays |
| *Black Hole pin | 139 |
| *Pole Position II | 28 |
| *Donkey Kong | 24 |
| After Burner II Deluxe | 22 |
| *Centipede | 21 |
| Altered Beast | 14 |
| Joust | 14 |
| Super Mario Bros. | 13 |
| Rampage | 11 |
| Solar Ride pin | 11 |
| Dragon's Lair | 10 |
| Galaga | 8 |
| Ms. Pac-Man | 7 |
| Operation Wolf | 7 |
| Street Fighter II | 7 |
| Dr Mario | 6 |
| Discs of Tron Environmental | 4 |
| Flash pin | 4 |
| Spy Hunter | 4 |
| Tempest | 4 |
| Zaxxon | 3 |
| Punch-Out!! | 2 |
| Gauntlet II | 1 |
| Moon Patrol | 0 |
| Tron | 0 |
I was running a high-score competition on four games, marked with as asterisk (*). Those games received unnaturally high play.
Here's a chart.
Somebody was on the Black Hole pinball every minute of the evening--mostly loaded up with four-player games. This was the biggest test for Black Hole so far, and it performed nearly flawlessly (had to power-cycle once). If you own one, perhaps you will agree that they become upset if you don't pay enough attention to them.
Removing the games involved in the tournament looks like this:
After Burner Deluxe is always a crowd pleaser. There are some real surprises in the data for me. Like, nobody wanted to try Tron? Nobody? Spy Hunter is normally more popular, so that one is odd. The EDOT usually gets more attention just because of its good looks. The Galaga is a cocktail and was in close proximity to Black Hole, so it became furniture as the evening went on, blocking gameplay. Glad to see SMB up there, as this is the first real party for the Red Tent.
Maybe you were wondering the relative gameplay percentage to the almighty Zaxxon, King of the Arcade?
Black Hole is significantly off the chart at 4,533%. I need to recap the sound section on Zaxxon (no explosions) and I'm 100% sure that's why it didn't beat Black Hole.