Good god don't ever try booking flights with traveljunction. If you book on their site it eats all your CC details etc then you get sent to a webpage with this at the top, so you think "fine, I'm done". Then a few minutes later some guy rings from an Indian call centre and tells you that this confirmation is not in fact a confirmation after all.
What's the perceived etiquette on boosting your own stuff? I see some do it but I wouldn't feel comfortable doing so myself, I don't think anything I say warrants a "HEY JUST I CASE YOU MISSED IT" repoke. If anyone is actually interested in the shit I say they'll find it anyway.
Reading more Play Meter magazines and just got to where they saw the innovative Atari polygon-based game I, Robot. I don't think they had any idea what they were seeing there and didn't know what to make of it. They'd just been through the false dawn of laser disc games and in 1984 it felt like their industry was falling apart and they hadn't a clue that this weird little Atari coinop had just given them an actual glimpse of what was to come, the genuine future of games.
These old Play Meter magazines are full of threatening WE'RE GONNA SUE YOU! ads. I remember seeing some of them (usually from Atari) in our game mags BITD but these coinop trade mags take it to a different level.
I occasionally see someone use the phrase "put through the ringer" or "dragged through the ringer" and I'm not sure what mental image ought to go with it.
I guess people don't get to see actual wringers very often these days so the phrase has become something else.
Going through these old Play Meter scans is really interesting. Here I found an interview with famous pinball designer Steve Ritchie, talking about a video game he was making for Williams. He sounds super confident about the game and definitely makes it sound like something I'd've enjoyed, but this was around the time of the arcade game crash and the game never came out.
