Kind of like you were channeling Allen Ginsburg for a second there...

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness,
starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking
for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly
connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,

I think if you spent more time on those lines it could rival HOWL (for the pinside community at least)!

Nice Tony Montana reference, but you could actually get some beer too! Or maybe "then you get the mods"

I've seen multiple posts suggest it's one of the top candidates for re-make à la MMR.

I prefer getting the hose again!

That's local for me I'll take a look (and report back) just for lols!

That's insane... The best original KISS I have ever seen (which looked factory new) was $7,000 and I thought that was a stretch.

That MAME cabinet looks awful too.

One thing Captain Fantastic has going for it is reminding the next generation that Elton John used to be cool and hip and sexy... something I myself did not realize until seeing Cap. F. and looking up more about his past.

Growing up I just thought he was gross and old... probably the same reaction kids today have to the current incarnation of Madonna.

But yeah, way overpriced.

ToucanF16 and metalkatt I appreciate and agree with your comments, nevertheless you may find yourself agreeing with some of what Camille Paglia (whose full response is included in the linked article below) has written.

Please note Paglia was one of her earliest fans and defenders in the 80s and 90s!

"The number one issue in Madonna’s current path of self-destruction is her embarrassing inability to deal with aging. She has failed to study the example of her great role model, Marlene Dietrich, who retained her class and style to the end. Madonna keeps chasing after youth, humiliating herself with vulgar displays, like the horrendously trashy, buttock-baring outfit she wore to the Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala in May.

She has become a cringe-making pastiche of ratty blonde hair extensions and artificially swollen cheeks, obscuring the magnificent classic bone structure that made her one of the most photogenic celebrities of the 1990s. In her struggles to stay relevant, Madonna has debased herself with adolescent, pitifully inept Instagrams that cannot compete with Rihanna’s brilliant work in that genre."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4029528/Feminist-Camille-Paglia-hits-Madonna-s-claims-rebuffed-female-peers-start-career.html#ixzz4TUpmQb00

More importantly @GPS, how do you feel about Madonna?

It looks like stills from a video from one of those deep sea robots for investigating shipwrecks...

That's too good to pass on archiving it (before it is removed).

Enjoy!

Best CL (resized).JPG

ORIGINAL PRE-DISTRIBUTION DISTRIBUTOR COPIES

pinball promo videos - $110 each (ALGONQUIN)

chicago.craigslist.org link

At least there is a picture so you can take a look before you drive out there!

PBVids (resized).JPG

Smiled when I came across this off Pinside while looking at old video game cabinets.

Could this be the inspiration for the "MAME in a whiskey barrel" ads that plague the IN, Mich, Ohio, & IL. Craigslists?

Actually this looks way cooler than those MAMEs do (but I still wouldn't want one of these either).

barrell pong 6cae2ef2392178a9e8729f707fbe94f1 (resized).jpg

Dude overpaid for it... (and I say that as a happy GB Premium owner and fan).

Yeah dude was very strange and I got the impression he came into a large sum of money and promptly blew it all on shiny things then got upset that he couldn’t continue to spend at that level once it was all gone and also because he wasn’t getting the respect he (felt he) deserved on Pinside...

I was going to buy his MB but communications were so erratic and bizarre that I passed and am now extremely glad I will be getting a much cheaper and better MBr LE instead.

Also, I suspect some of his games have been stored in an unheated garage with some temperature swings due to rotating in and out of house (though he probably stopped doing that once his interest in pinball peaked and maybe they have been sitting in that lineup since he quit Pinside?).