modessitt
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Are you related to that girl in the first three pics, or just a perv? 
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I guess just a perv.
I was going through getting crowd shots playing the Wall o' Willams and happened to catch those two playing Battlezone. A little later I walked back through and they were playing it again.
Funhouse was one of the tournament machines and I was trying to document the tournament area, the fact that she was playing was just a bonus.
As to BZ girl, I was shooting pictures of the Wall of Williams when she was playing the BZ and I knew how much fun it is to stir the pot around here with video game "butt shots" so I couldn't resist. She and her male companion must have loved the BZ because I saw them playing it 4 or 5 times. I only took the two shots. The pinball one was a fluke, I was doing pinball crowd shots and I didn't see her there until I went through the pics at home.
I love digital photography. You can take a zillion shots and if you get 1 or 2 good ones, it doesn't cost anything to erase the bad ones. I used to have to take photos in and get contact sheets made so I would only pay to get the decent shots. Now, it's just bad shot, delete, good shot, file it. No harm no foul. I took almost 200 shots over the 2 days and you can find the same people over and over again. I just thought the pervs among us would enjoy some pics of a couple of pretty girls playing with our toys.
ken
I was going through getting crowd shots playing the Wall o' Willams and happened to catch those two playing Battlezone. A little later I walked back through and they were playing it again.
Funhouse was one of the tournament machines and I was trying to document the tournament area, the fact that she was playing was just a bonus.
As to BZ girl, I was shooting pictures of the Wall of Williams when she was playing the BZ and I knew how much fun it is to stir the pot around here with video game "butt shots" so I couldn't resist.
She and her male companion must have loved the BZ because I saw them playing it 4 or 5 times. I only took the two shots. The pinball one was a fluke, I was doing pinball crowd shots and I didn't see her there until I went through the pics at home. I love digital photography. You can take a zillion shots and if you get 1 or 2 good ones, it doesn't cost anything to erase the bad ones. I used to have to take photos in and get contact sheets made so I would only pay to get the decent shots. Now, it's just bad shot, delete, good shot, file it. No harm no foul. I took almost 200 shots over the 2 days and you can find the same people over and over again. I just thought the pervs among us would enjoy some pics of a couple of pretty girls playing with our toys.
ken
pseeds
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Once and for all - "Up the Voltage" (at least when I first heard it) is from Real Genius:
Bodie: He said he didn't feel like it. And I said, you'd better! And he said, or what? And I said, or else you're gonna be in trouble. And he said jam it.
Professor Hathaway: That's a wonderful story, Bodie. I noticed you've stopped stuttering.
Bodie: I've been giving myself shock treatments.
Professor Hathaway: Up the voltage.
pseeds
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Not quite the girls of CAX, but interesting nevertheless....
She plays pins too...
Back at Battlezone, again...
and for all those who begged...a second shot of Funhouse Girl...
ken
I am not convinced the Funhouse Girl is the same one in the other photos. Hair color looks way different and not just because of the darkness of the FH pic. Stance is different.
Anyone else care to comment?
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Yes more!!
modessitt
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Same shirt, same design on the jeans pocket, same kid's hand on the Medusa.
Conclusion - same hottie...
modessitt
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BTW - what the hell is on top of that High Speed?
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He knew that, he just wanted to see the pics again...
I think it's a video projector. They were going to project the scores from the tournaments on the wall, but the hotel management objected to taping a screen up on the wall and with the vertical striping on the wallpaper the picture looked horrible, So they shut it down. I must have caught it before they put the projector away for safe keeping.
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modessitt
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High Speed normally has a rotating red light on top. I thought it was some after-market thingamajig...
pseeds
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Same shirt, same design on the jeans pocket, same kid's hand on the Medusa.
Conclusion - same hottie...
What pics are you viewing? Same shirt? No way. Not the same shirt. Shorts in a few pics and one pic in pants. I don't think it is the same person...Are there some pics I am not aware of?
EDIT: OK. I see why the confusion. BZ girl is not Funhouse girl was my point. I see the second pic of Funhouse girl now. I thought someone said BZ girl was Funhouse girl. That I don't believe - just to be clear.
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Technopope
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This was my only complaint with the show, and has been for the last five or six years I have been attending. For some reason, possibly being too young to have actually been in arcades in the eighties, Keith thinks that arcades were like nightclubs, with flashing strobe lights and music turned up as loud as possible.
It would have been nice to actually *hear* the games themselves, rather than have to listen to music from '70s TV shows and such. Games located next to a speaker, and there were *lots* of speakers, where almost unplayable due to the high music volume level. Even putting an ear directly on a cabinet failed to pick up some games' audio, as mostly what was heard was music reverberating off that cabinet. For all I know, all the video games had the audio muted or turned down as low as possible.
I found this to be the case for the entire six hours I was there Friday night.
Otherwise, it was a great show. Not actually counting, it looked like there were fewer video games there this year, but a better selection and certainly better maintained than some previous years. There seemed to be more pinball machines, and more that I enjoyed playing this time. (Maybe because the extra pinballs overflowed into the adjacent room that didn't have speakers.
)And *finally*, after many years, Kieth's Varkon and Joust pinball were working fully while I was there! They always seemed to have "just broken" when I arrived years past...
pseeds
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The loud music would definitely be a turn-off for me on the show.
The arcades I was in BITD were loud but it was game noise. That is all the 'music to my ears' I need.
The arcades I was in BITD were loud but it was game noise. That is all the 'music to my ears' I need.
R3LL1K
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+1The arcades I was in BITD were loud but it was game noise. That is all the 'music to my ears' I need.
That's part of what made going to the arcade so great. You would walk up to the change machine get your first set of tokens and walk the row. Sometimes there would be a game you knew you had to play first. Other times you had to look for another game that grabbed your attention if your first choice wasn't available. It isn't called attract mode for nothing. The sounds the game plays as you were walking by is what got you to try out or find a game you hadn't previously considered.
I wish my kids could have experienced what real arcades were like. I guess I should get change machine for my garcade. This way they can know what it's like to spend your allowance to play arcade games.
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The noise level is probably my one complaint (personally I think Keith is going deaf and he sets it so he can hear it. Keith, if you see this, Sorry Amigo, but es verdad!, you need to turn it down a little).
On the other hand, there were some very positive features:
- great selection of games, both pins and vids.
- BO factor almost non-existent (a couple whiffs late Friday night, but almost nothing while I was there on Saturday)
- High female turnout. Just check out the crowd shots. Still not 50:50, but fairly respectable (compared to KLOV ratio).
- High family turnout. Lots of little gamers ranging from babies to teens. Arcades were family affairs once upon a time.
- Interesting vendor turnout. Illinois pinball had an awesome collection of parts and stuff and the owner was a treasure trove of knowledge. Too bad more people didn't come down and soak up some of his knowledge. The PinLight guy was way cool also. As soon as I win the lottery, I am gonna blow a big chunk on buying some pins and putting LED kits in them.
- lots of tournaments.
- the swap meet. It was hysterically funny watching Callen and Mike swap junk. They both swore they were going home with an empty truck/trailer and then proceeded to load up on each others junk.
ken
On the other hand, there were some very positive features:
- great selection of games, both pins and vids.
- BO factor almost non-existent (a couple whiffs late Friday night, but almost nothing while I was there on Saturday)
- High female turnout. Just check out the crowd shots. Still not 50:50, but fairly respectable (compared to KLOV ratio
).- High family turnout. Lots of little gamers ranging from babies to teens. Arcades were family affairs once upon a time.
- Interesting vendor turnout. Illinois pinball had an awesome collection of parts and stuff and the owner was a treasure trove of knowledge. Too bad more people didn't come down and soak up some of his knowledge. The PinLight guy was way cool also. As soon as I win the lottery, I am gonna blow a big chunk on buying some pins and putting LED kits in them.
- lots of tournaments.
- the swap meet. It was hysterically funny watching Callen and Mike swap junk. They both swore they were going home with an empty truck/trailer and then proceeded to load up on each others junk.
ken
alexcc
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Yeah, I really enjoyed the swap meet, I actually sold some stuff and did a couple trades.
But yeah it was funny watching Callen and Mike trading stuff.
But yeah it was funny watching Callen and Mike trading stuff.
Hyde
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I was at the expo on Saturday, and it was pretty sweet! It seemed like the game/pin selection was even better than last year. This year was the first time I got to try out the games Crystal Castles, Warlords, Joust Pinball, Varkon, Mystic Marathon, Blaster, Dragon's Lair, and Black Widow. And Space ace, and Q*bert. Not to mention Karnov and Rally X. Almost forgot Lunar Lander!
So yeah, I especially liked the expo because of all the games there I had never played before.
So yeah, I especially liked the expo because of all the games there I had never played before.
R3LL1K
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No Major Havok?
I thought the swap meet was supposed to run untill 11am? I got to the expo around 10ish and no swap meet.
Oh well I don't need any more stuff anyway. I would have been there at 8 but my brother wanted to go, yet he wouldn't wake up when I called him.
Hyde
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I love Major Havoc! Best game ever hands down. But I had already played it at last year's expo, and my list was of games I had never played before until this year.
alexcc
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No Major Havok?
I thought the swap meet was supposed to run untill 11am? I got to the expo around 10ish and no swap meet.
It was in the parking lot out back. I "closed shop" around 10:30 and went inside to play.
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