In every other respect, March 6 was another typical Wednesday night. What made this one stand out? This was the last time I played pinball in Houston before leaving for the Texas Pinball Festival the following weekend.

Most of these scores, except for T2, were pretty lousy, and there were several other games of T2 with much lower scores. I only played Stranger Things and Creature once each, and Monster Bash twice. This was literally the day after the tournament directors for TPF sent out the machine lineups for the tournaments (via email). T2 was on the list while most of the other games at Little Dipper were not.

The other main reason I came down here was to get some pictures of Main Street in front of Little Dipper, one of which I added to the gallery.

Finally, Sunday would be a limited engagement showing of Labyrinth, the film from 1986 directed and written by Jim Henson (with a couple of co-writers helping out). I thoroughly enjoyed the film. This was despite missing what I thought was one of the best scenes (the Magic Dance song towards the beginning of the movie).

The timing of this limited engagement couldn’t have been better. I had quite fond memories of playing the Labyrinth pinball at Houston Arcade Expo this past year, and it had been a while since I saw the movie all the way through. (And that was on video or TV, not in a theater.) So this did help me “get in the mood” for the Texas Pinball Festival.

On the way out, someone left a credit on a multi-game arcade machine, which I played on Dig Dug. I put up 36,170, which is a pretty good score given I haven’t played it in a while. And with that, although I didn’t know it at the time, the stage was set for what would be an epic weekend.