I would have liked to have seen Pinback playing arcade games in person at ICJ's pad this week because, quite frankly, after seeing some of those high scores I am starting to doubt that he is in fact human. Which means he could be:
- A robot, programmed to play games. Maybe he was sent back from the future, like a Terminator, but got sidetracked when running across Asteroids. ("Sarah Connor? Can I borrow a quartah?")
- Some sort of superhuman with super skills who, instead of saving people, uses those skills to set arcade high scores that mock me.
- A teen werewolf who hates the Xbox 360.
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"Now Sasquatch can play Halo 3."
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 4:17 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
It's fairly unhuman, yes. I don't doubt that he'd one day be able to topple my Zoo Keeper score. I wasn't doing anything special with it.
The only ones safe are the ones that require a lot of time to set, in an environment he is not a fan of. That leaves:
- Tempest. Tempest actually lets you keep some of your progress. It's not like a Road Blasters-style continue, but it took me an hour to get to 155K, and I've never seen Pinback play Tempest.
- Crystal Castles. There is no genius on my part, but Pinback simply is not interested.
- Spy Hunter. Now this I would be inclined to put my skills against his, as he would feel shooting people in a car "beneath" him. Like how Jodie Foster says that Hannibal Lecter wouldn't bother her in person as Lecter would consider it rude.
And that's it. That's the whole list.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 5:41 pm
by AArdvark
Re: Josh wants to do the teen werewolf.
Is it rude to blow away the high score at someone's house?
THE
GOT ANY MORE BEERS?
AARDVARK
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:56 pm
by pinback
Jonsey is too modest. I will never beat him at Crystal Castles (which I put in some decent time with back when I lived in Boulder), I will never beat him at Spy Hunter, I will never beat him at Zooke-- well, I can see MAYBE beating him at this if I got lucky one in a thousand times -- and I will never beat him at Q*Bert. He has great skill in these games.
Everything else, I just want it more.
As a ten year old at the ice rink, I remember playing Asteroids, and when I lost a guy, I literally PUNCHED the dude standing next to me. I didn't feel good about it, I in fact still feel some shame and regret for that to this day.
But fuck it, I wanted it more. You think blowing up space rocks and dodging aliens is something fun to do with friends during halftime. That's fine. But I need it.
I need to blow up the space rocks, and I need to save the last human family.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:07 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
AArdvark wrote:Re: Josh wants to do the teen werewolf.
Is it rude to blow away the high score at someone's house?
THE
GOT ANY MORE BEERS?
AARDVARK
No. Unless a guy's high score in life is his wife, you have an obligation to plow through any high score in his arcade.
Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 11:08 pm
by Ice Cream Jonsey
pinback wrote:I need to blow up the space rocks, and I need to save the last human family.
Oh yeah, I forgot to show Flack your Robotron high score. Next time I go out there (and remember) I'll again note it. It's inhuman, but keeping in the theme of this thread.