As a parent that likes pinball, nothing warms the heart more when you see one of your kids enjoy playing pinball. Well my son, who is 11, likes playing it. He thinks that what I do with XPin products is pretty cool.
I finally got my Silverball Mania back in the house and I installed one of my new 7volution sets in it. Of course, my games all have XPin products in them...from a business perspective it is pretty cool to spot a pinball machine and say "I have got to buy it as a business expense!". Well the SB was just that because I think it is important to play the game to test out the operation of what I have designed.
But I digress...what I did was challenge my boys, 11 and 14, to play the SB and get over 1 million on it. Whoever did this would get $20. This challenge went out to everyone in the house, me included. For the record, I have never rolled my SB legitimately during gameplay when it was still 6-digit. I even set it to 5 ball with pretty liberal scoring and the best that I have been able to do is 600K.
Today while I was at the local APPL (Arizona Pinball Players Leage) tournament my wife texts me to say I needed to bring home $20 because my 11 yr old got to 1.3 million, and she sent me a picture to prove it. UNBELIEVABLE! When I talked to him he says maybe it was a glitch and that he wouldn't hold me to it....WHEWWW! Next thing I knew, about an 1hr later I get another text from my wife and she says it is no glitch and now the new high score is 1.5 million. My son was determined to see if it was a glitch so he played it some more and before he knew it by ball 3 he was at ~900K. My wife was called to witness the rollover to 1 million and he continued playing. WOW!!!
When I got home he was waiting with this big grin on his face, wanting to show me the score. I had to immortalize the moment with some pictures....
Now for the sad part...when I asked him what he was going to do with the $20 he said "I want to go to Game Stop and get a new XBOX game"...sigh
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