So I haven’t dropped by Del Mar Lanes in a little while. Much to my surprise, upon my arrival I noticed a freshly started game on Godzilla just sitting there, with another ¾ of a credit. So I got to play two paid credits for a whopping 25 cents total. I say two paid credits because it wound up being no less than six games. I put up another high score and a few more mode records. (I still have the 606.7M+ grand champion from April 10 as well as the rest of the high score board from the last reset.)

Incidentally, that very first game, I wound up putting up 209.6M+ which would temporarily be good for high score #4 before I surpassed that score later in the session. This is not unlike just walking up to a machine in a tournament, and that kind of score in a typical tournament qualifying session would likely be towards the top (depending of course on who else is playing). In a typical strikeout or matchplay tournament, it would likely be good for at least second in the group, maybe first.

I’m mentioning this as a reminder that I am not giving up on tournament play. I do hope to have more tournaments to write about for the second half of the year, whether or not they are ones I have a hand in directing/organizing.

Finally, earlier today, I made a quick jaunt over to Equal Parts Brewing. There are four games in the lineup. Three of them were somewhat familiar to me: Rick and Morty, Godzilla (again), and Terminator 3. The fourth, was NBA (Stern, 2009), not to be confused with NBA Fastbreak (Bally, 1997). This game plays a lot differently from Bally’s take on a basketball themed game. Stern stuck to traditional pinball scoring though there is also a basketball points counter for the curious.

I paid for one credit on NBA and won a second credit via match. The second game’s score was a bit higher so that’s the one I’m posting. After this I played one game of Rick and Morty (taking advantage of the ⅙ credit making my cost $1.25) then moving over to Godzilla. I had a fairly decent romp on Godzilla. I paid for a total of six credits ($1.50 by coins, then $5 for five via credit card) and wound up winning one replay for a total of seven actual games. In the process I “redecorated” what was apparently a freshly reset high score list (thus all the pictures; I made no attempt to document which mode records were set in which games, so this is just what was on the board at the very end).