League night #4 of 8
Games played: Ghostbusters, Tales of the Arabian Nights, Revenge from Mars, Monster Bash, Simpsons Pinball Party
We had one of those odd three-week intervals between league meetings to start off this month, so of course with all that extra time, I have once again waited until nearly the start of our next league meeting (which is tonight at 7) to write the recap of the last meeting. There, I gave myself grief about it so you all don’t have to. Now that that’s out of the way, on with the recap.
Mike shows Chris and Greg where he got a ball stuck on Monster Bash.
Our original slated games include South Park, which we have never yet played at league, just like we have never yet played Demolition Man. And just like last week, when it looked like we might finally play Demo Man and then it got switched out, South Park started doing something wrong besides just being South Park (eating quarters, I think? I don’t know, I was downstairs when it happened) and got removed from the schedule. I don’t think anyone shed a tear over it and I assume it removed part of the reason that Chris had replied to the game announcement on Facebook by saying it was like going to the dentist. (I suspect Revenge and Ghostbusters were other parts of the reason.) Instead, they shed all their tears over Revenge from Mars, which was savage to many people. Most people in my group got scores around 12-15 million, and that easily beat everyone in the group playing ahead of us.
Mike’s stuck ball, wedged behind the pop bumper on Monster Bash. Sadly, this was after league, so it didn’t save me from my bad game of MB.
I continued my sad performance this season, not as bad as last session which was my worst in probably a couple of years, but still nothing that’s going to let me claw back up into A division range. Now that there is a 10 point attendance bonus, missing a couple of sessions really hurt me. (OK, OK, “failed to benefit” rather than hurt me, but that’s a matter of perspective.) It doesn’t help that Monster Bash, a game that most people normally love, is playing like heck. The scoop is very unpredictable, which includes shooting down the middle now and then, and orbit shots still sometimes hit Drac’s foot and divert toward the center. I ended up on Ball 3 of Monster Bash with nothing going on whatsoever and 3 million points tops, and the scoop gave me a pity Frank multiball that I didn’t realize it would do. I managed to milk enough points out of it to get to around 12 million or so, and, oh yeah, Frank was also not registering hits, so that was all from shooting other shots.
Also sadly for me, this was my last night of league before the start of the semester, and from here to the end of the season I will be having to come to league late again due to having class until 6:15 and then an hour-plus commute. I’ll persevere, though, so you can all expect to see me tonight at some point, probably before 8 p.m.