15-05-13, 04:59 PM
(15-05-13, 04:41 PM)Chillum link Wrote: I stopped going to the pub when they removed the pinball machines, arcade machines, pool tables and dart boards.
I used to love going to the pub and playing a few games with my mates and listening to the juke box.
20 years ago I used to live in Stratford East London and I was a very competitive when it came to pinball. I used to go round all the pubs playing the machines and making sure my initials 'SIP' were displayed on the high score screen. I can proudly boast that for a stretch of two whole weeks I held the high score on EVERY machine in the Stratford area.
One day we did the usual pub crawl and found the initials 'RAY' has displaced mine on several machines and I spent a few bob knocking the blighter off the top spot. He did the same to me over the next few weeks until we met at last and had a brilliant shoot out and I took £50 off him and a bit more in bets with our spectators.
On reflection, a sad way to waste time and money but quite exciting. Our fave machine was 'The Adams Family' it's the fastest game and definately the noisiest, the average score people got on this machine was about 6 million points or so, I won the shoot out with 135 billion!