[crabapple]

I wanted to mention virtual pinball games, also. I used to love going to the arcade and playing pinball machines. Now it's hard to even find these machines. Playing on a real, physically solid machine is cool, there is nothing quite like that...especially in the environment of an arcade with all the noise, people, flashing lights and so on...pure joy. But those arcades are vanishing and those pinball games going into the homes of collectors. Virtual pinball games, however, are still very much available, as retro as they may seem.

Yesterday I got the "Avengers" pinball game for next to nothing, and it's not bad. It has soundbytes and video clips from the show--even a full-screen opening title sequence that introduces the game. Only some kind of fogey would remember "The Avengers" but this was a neat show and they made a neat pinball game out of it.