[Pazuzu]

Even now, you can walk down the line of pinball games at the cool bars that have them, and just as often as not, find a free game or two left behind. Either people not knowing how it worked, or being too tipsy to continue, or just leaving games behind out of laziness.

In college, I got so good at the two or three pinball games in the Union that I regularly left 3 or 4 games behind, after playing 4 or 5 games on 50 cents, because I had to split for class.

There was a Star Wars game at the Illini Inn that had a broken tilt mechanism, you could lift the end of the table up as far as your arms could handle, and if you were fast enough you'd save every gutterball. But, after a few beers, you tended to put the game down on the ground too hard, and everyone in the bar would turn and look at you, and the bartender would kick you out.