Editorial notes:
In Jan 2010 Shai embarked on his third blogging journey, starting a blog dedicated to reviews of pinball machines :-). This expedition was short-lived (one day only) with only one full review published (see below) and another incomplete draft.
Location: Comics ‘r’ Us @ 114 Chapel St, Windsor VIC
Machine: Star Wars Trilogy
In the corner of the cramp comics store sit two unbothered pinball machines – an apparently out of order Star Trek game, and its (presumably more beloved) sibling, fully functioning, the Star Wars trilogy game. Huzzah cries the Star Wars loving (and possibly Star Trek hating) pirate upon locating this treasure.
Two dollars worth of fumbling later and the game begins. Having watched more than nine balls plummet to their death through that chute of damnitation I still can’t say that I actually understand what the hell was going on most of the time. Apparently, Han was frozen and wanted us to thaw him. So far so good. When we finally, somehow (!), managed this tremendous feat what does he do? He asks us some cryptic trivia question about some actor whose career peaked a good decade before I was even born. What the hell man. Where’s the love? I was starting to think that maybe Jabba the Hut had been right all along about what to do with futuristic Indiana Jones. The dark side beckons…
