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Lions & Tigers & Bears!

Big Buck Hunter HD Reloaded Mini – first impressions I’m not a “video” guy. I played Centipede in college (and was good enough to compete in tournaments). I played ColecoVision Dragster when it first...

Show Us Your Sh#t!

How cool is this! The team a JOBLO reached out to ask if I would like to have my Pinball collection featured on his JOBLO Videos YouTube channel. Oh, heck yes was my answer!...

Mountain Avengers!

This is not a review of the new Avengers Infinity Quest Pinball game from Stern. It’s more of the story of the obsessive “getting ready” process that happens every time I order a NIB...

Nice Run!

I can hardly “not” be interested in the 1993 Gottlieb system 3 Pinball game titled “Wipe Out”. Why? Simple, because just before this game was released I was living in a tiny town in...

Woofers & Dinosuars

I’m an audiophile. No, you can’t go to prison for that. Means I like good sound. Been that way since the late 70’s when my neighbor came over and asked if I would like...

Pandemic

Hard to go through something like this and not write about it. From high national drama, personal and professional impact not much else in my life has ever changed everything around me in such...

The Park is Closed

Things were going so well … then they weren’t, then the COVID-19 virus hit, then (like many others) I was on my own for repair. First world problems I know. During these very difficult...

Find Nedry!

John Hammond needed Nedry. NOW! It was about to hit the fan and he had no idea what Dennis Nedry was up to. In a way, I want him too. I want a Stern...

Dumb Smart Plugs

There’s something magical about telling “Alexa” to do something and then watching it happen (or not). I’ve always been an early adopter so I tried the Echo right when it came out. I quickly...

Iron Man Anniversary

I’ve been at my current place of employment for 25 years this past October. That hardly seems possible cause I feel like I lived an entire lifetime of careers before I started this one...