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<blockquote data-quote="Morg" data-source="post: 142707" data-attributes="member: 4258"><p>I don't know what the actual first game I ever played was, it's likely that I did attempt something that vaguely resembled playing as a wee runt. I certainly never played much though, I was always fascinated and amused by pinball machines but none of my friends ever seemed to care and the only people I ever saw play were so good they made the daunting difficulty seem even worse.</p><p></p><p>My first recollection of playing(outside of some home video games I occasionally spent some time with) was at a roller-skating rink that for whatever reason had their tables on free play the night our group was there. I remember an attendant showed me how to reset one when it got screwed up or lost free play, and that I managed to screw up the other one and the same thing didn't work. I remember I liked the first one better, and I seem to think the playfield was... red. At any rate it was a hell of a lot more fun than roller skating with people I didn't like.</p><p></p><p>The first table I remember and truly played and learned(unless you count Space Cadet on PC which taught me about complex rulesets) was a Creature From the Black Lagoon I stumbled upon at an arcade I used to go to. I'm not sure when this was, surely 15 years ago by now. There was also a soccer pin but it wasn't as appealing and I didn't quite understand what to do so I stuck with Creature and fell in love with it. I used to go there a lot, eventually I would go just for Creature. I'd take like 20 bucks and spend a dollar on video games. I got fairly good at it but could only manage high scores when they had been recently reset.</p><p></p><p>Eventually the place closed and changed hands, losing the tables in the process. To this day that's the only table I've ever managed to really play out in the wild. So TPA has been a godsend for me. I bought it on a whim, largely because Creature was coming. Eventually I couldn't see any reason not to buy the rest of Season 1, and after hitting 2 billion for the first and so far only time on Creature during the Christmas tournament I bought Season 2 to try to get into the silver tournament tier. I'd say it's been a good investment, just wish I'd managed more of the real thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morg, post: 142707, member: 4258"] I don't know what the actual first game I ever played was, it's likely that I did attempt something that vaguely resembled playing as a wee runt. I certainly never played much though, I was always fascinated and amused by pinball machines but none of my friends ever seemed to care and the only people I ever saw play were so good they made the daunting difficulty seem even worse. My first recollection of playing(outside of some home video games I occasionally spent some time with) was at a roller-skating rink that for whatever reason had their tables on free play the night our group was there. I remember an attendant showed me how to reset one when it got screwed up or lost free play, and that I managed to screw up the other one and the same thing didn't work. I remember I liked the first one better, and I seem to think the playfield was... red. At any rate it was a hell of a lot more fun than roller skating with people I didn't like. The first table I remember and truly played and learned(unless you count Space Cadet on PC which taught me about complex rulesets) was a Creature From the Black Lagoon I stumbled upon at an arcade I used to go to. I'm not sure when this was, surely 15 years ago by now. There was also a soccer pin but it wasn't as appealing and I didn't quite understand what to do so I stuck with Creature and fell in love with it. I used to go there a lot, eventually I would go just for Creature. I'd take like 20 bucks and spend a dollar on video games. I got fairly good at it but could only manage high scores when they had been recently reset. Eventually the place closed and changed hands, losing the tables in the process. To this day that's the only table I've ever managed to really play out in the wild. So TPA has been a godsend for me. I bought it on a whim, largely because Creature was coming. Eventually I couldn't see any reason not to buy the rest of Season 1, and after hitting 2 billion for the first and so far only time on Creature during the Christmas tournament I bought Season 2 to try to get into the silver tournament tier. I'd say it's been a good investment, just wish I'd managed more of the real thing. [/QUOTE]
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