For Pinball Players

[Juke_spin]

Ever have the game assign you "Upgrade attack flags" and wonder what that entails? If you play this fun, challenging and no-cost game enough - I play it alot - you've probably wondered about things like this. Well there's an internet page of game breakdowns to covers everything I was still wondering about re. pinball.

Upgrade Attack Flags - means you've got to - Light all 3 Re-Entry Lane lights.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/computer/doswin/file/563047/46514

[rdf]

Nothing beats a real pinball machine, Juke, you know that. How many times did you tilt the damned thing trying to finagle the ball just right? ;) 'specially when your honey kept bumping into you :) Pinball and Foosball, the best games ever created in my day, and I was a Foosball Wizard ;)

One interesting point about this one Foosball table we played. One game, one of the guys broke in half leaving him only from the waist up, and the dude I was playing laughed, and said, "He's a paraplegic now." Being about 11 or so, I wasn't sure enough in my mind to even know what a paraplegic was, so I laughed just because the guy was quite a bit older, and I thought it must be funny. One of the few things I'm most least proud of in my life.

Maybe that's why I'm in the condition I'm in today, who knows? We don't, that's why we don't say things like that, or laugh, even when we know better, and being young is no excuse...I figured it probably wasn't a nice thing to say, but I laughed anyway.

[Juke_spin]

Nothing beats a real pinball machine, Juke, you know that. How many times did you tilt the damned thing trying to finagle the ball just right? ;) 'specially when your honey kept bumping into you :) Pinball and Foosball, the best games ever created in my day, and I was a Foosball Wizard ;)

One interesting point about this one Foosball table we played. One game, one of the guys broke in half leaving him only from the waist up, and the dude I was playing laughed, and said, "He's a paraplegic now." Being about 11 or so, I wasn't sure enough in my mind to even know what a paraplegic was, so I laughed just because the guy was quite a bit older, and I thought it must be funny. One of the few things I'm most least proud of in my life.

Maybe that's why I'm in the condition I'm in today, who knows? We don't, that's why we don't say things like that, or laugh, even when we know better, and being young is no excuse...I figured it probably wasn't a nice thing to say, but I laughed anyway.
You're way heavy on the guilts and morals from that anecdote, RDF. You were a kid and didn't know shit and you laughed at something an older kid said. You remember and attach so much significance to it because you felt guilty at the time, ya dummy. I'm suspecting you were raised in a very moral environment to have built so much out of something so relatively insignificant.

Now if you'd been born into a wealthy, powerful family and grew up to cheat your way into the most powerful position in the world and then used that position to play mindless destructive games on the worlds stage:zombie::nono:....well, but you didn't, did you.;):)

[rdf]

You're a kind soul, Juke. I was able to make amends when I was a teenager by befriending a kid in a wc. Not SCI, but MD, but he had many of the same problems. I hauled him everywhere, lifting him in and out of his chair, standing him up and holding him so he could pee in the bathroom urinal like a "regular guy," etc. We had a lot of fun for about 6 months, until I moved away. But I think of him often, and wonder how he's doing or even if he's still living...but I'll never forget the FoosBall episode, it's just one of those shameful things I live with. And that's because I was immediately slapped by my conscience, then and there, and knew better....even if I wasn't exactly clear what I was doing wrong, my conscience knew I was doing something wrong, and that's my final arbiter.

If you're a Father, happy Fathers' Day. If you're a son, Happy Fathers' Day to your dad here or not, Steve :)

edit: Wait, I suppose we're all sons, ooops ;) :) 'Less you're Immaculate :)

I just realized we're in Computer Forum, sorry for the hijack.

[trainman]

I like Pinball on the PC, first time I've been able to play it. Thanks for the tips.