I headed down to Eureka Heights with the primary goal of socializing with a few people I knew would be there for a tournament (even though I would not be able to play in it, or really, didn’t have much desire to try to play in it even if able).

Amazingly, I managed to squeak in a couple of games of pinball while I was there. This includes a game on The Jetsons, which is a rare game from Spooky Pinball with only 100 units manufactured.

There’s not a whole lot to report on when it comes to my February visit to Einstein’s. The main highlight is the Guardians of the Galaxy score of 148.6M+. My score on Black Knight: Sword of Rage of 55.5M+ wasn’t too shabby (I feel like a really good run starts around 100M), the others are pretty ho-hum. (The 7.9M+ was on Game of Thrones; the translite was not lit.)

And so we turn the page to Valentine’s Day at Cidercade.

From a social standpoint, I did make more small talk than I usually do, but no strong connections. From a pinball and arcade gaming standpoint, I’d say the night went rather well. This evening brought my first games on Dungeons & Dragons: The Tyrant’s Eye as well as Metallica Remastered. On both of these I feel like I put up some good scores (301M+ and 78.3M+ respectively). Additional highlights include 106M+ on Black Knight: Sword of Rage (Pro), 126k+ on Pepper II, and 3.16M+ on The Beatles. The others I can take or leave for the most part.

I had time to drop by both Poison Girl and Little Dipper on this particular evening. The main highlight of the trip would have to be the 2.83M+ on Quicksilver. Actually, spoiler alert, it might well be the highlight of the entire month of February. Most of the other scores weren’t all that great save for Earthshaker at Poison Girl, which I am slowly relearning as time allows.

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.