Have I two eyes to see your two eyes

Stop me if you've heard this before: no time to really write. Here, instead, enjoy pictures from Pinball At The Zoo, here, the couple hours I could spend there on Friday night, attempting to qualify for the tournament.

Qualifying for Pinball at the Zoo! This is as close as I would get to qualifying, anyway. The Whirlwind has under-body lighting that adds this nice glow which looks like a postproduction error.

Older woodrail game at the show, not part of the contest.

Replay information card on the Swing-Along game. The game is from 1963 so this has to count as a pre-Tommy appearance of a Pinball Wizard.

Scuba was one of the games in the daily tournaments. I didn't get the hang of it, but it's got a classic theme of 'them guys can't resist a The Sex and their girlfriends have to hold them back''.

Amazon Hunt was another of the daily tournament games; it's got a lot of drop targets temping you to hit the ball foolishly and drain. The color of the lights is a very 1982-85 style of things.

Pinball At The Zoo had a lot of categories for people bringing their games in to show; here's one from the top of the box. I got a lot of mileage out of talking how this was going to be won by the Basic Cable Rambo-themed game Raven.

Trivia: The initial temperature drop, once the parasol was installed by the Skylab 2 crew, on the outer skin of the space station exceeded 65 degrees Fahrenheit per hour. Temperatures inside the space station dropped more slowly, but still declined to under a hundred degrees within a day of the deployment. Source: Skylab: A Chronology, Roland W Newkirk, Ivan D Ertel, Courtney G Brooks. NASA SP-4011.

Currently Reading: Lost Popeye Zine, Surprise Supplement: The Valley of the Goons, Elzie Segar, Doc Winner. Editor Stephanie Noelle. I'm still reading the book about blimps, but as I don't have much reading time this weekend I'm using what I have for lighter material.