Pulling rank
Couple of things of note today…
The beloved Kick machine sold this morning on eBay for the opening bid. No sweat there – I was happy for it to go for that much, and to a fellow arcade collector no less. I will just say that the buyer is based nearby, and I’m hoping I might be able to persuade them to bring it to OVGE one of these days. I’ll be extremely bummed to see it go – even when it hasn’t been working 100%, there’s just something about that bright, happy side art on the machine that takes the edge off of things a bit. A really happy guy (with a spiked helmet) riding a unicycle, popping balloons. If that doesn’t make you crack a smile every time you see it, I can’t help you. I’ll miss the machine though.
Other big news of the evening: VWORP!1 has apparently been chronicled in Howe’s Transcendental Toybox. Howe as in David J. Howe, co-author of all of the seven Doctor Who “Handbooks” (now out of print and hard to find) which I used as primary research material while writing the book. … Read more
