We wrap up the month of January with another quick trip by Little Dipper and a longer visit to Cidercade to finish off the day.

The main highlight of the Little Dipper visit was the 1.02M+ on Quicksilver. It was at this point I finally felt like I was on the way to mastering this very fun and exciting game from 1980.

Moving on to Cidercade, I got to play the new Metallica Remastered machine which had recently arrived, though admittedly my score wasn’t all that great. Other highlights include 3.66M+ on Heavy Metal, 321.3M+ on Black Knight Sword of Rage (Pro, no upper playfield), 210.7M+ on Star Wars including R2-D2 champion, 113,970 on Pepper II, and 40,048 on Centipede (3 lives/12k).

This is not a post I wanted to write. Early Friday morning (2/7) the computer I usually use to edit blog posts has developed an issue where it will not stay running. It is either power supply or cooling related.

It will likely be quite a few days before I’m able to diagnose and fix it. In the meantime I may have sporadic access to another computer to post from. (The images require editing which is difficult to impossible from a phone.) I hope to be back to normal by the 16th (a week from Monday).

Update 2025-02-11: Computer’s back up and running, I should be back to normal updates within a day or two.