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"Devils Quarters" at Duke University
Playing games there while I was a student got me reinterested in pinball.
To be totally honest, when the 70's EM's that I cut my pinball teeth
on went away, my interest in pinball dipped for a while.
Games like Whirlwind, Cyclone, Space Station, Big Guns, Fire!, BTTF,
Funhouse and, yes, even Genesis and Bone Busters got me interested in
pinball again.
Then the first wave of DMD games came along - Batman, ST:25th, Gilligan,
Black Rose, and eventually TAF. That was the first place I saw/played
TAF, about the same time I started reading RGP. Lots of quarters dropped
and more than a few refund sheets, and not a whole lot of nagging problems
fixed. I remember having to tilt Batman over and over again because the
center top lane switch was a ball trap, and ball search would mess up
subsequent players. The "real" skill shot was avoiding that lane!
Without "Devils' Quarters," I probably never would have ended up here on
r.g.p. Without DQ and r.g.p. I probably wouldn't have become a pin
collector (my first game, Haunted House, was originally on location
there). Also, without r.g.p. I never would have made the contacts that
led to my time in the pinball industry. How strange and wonderful to soon
end up working alongside the creators of those games I enjoyed just a few
years before (not to slight r.g.p. regulars).
The "Devil's Quarters" was removed in the mid-90's - the space created was
renovated and split between the campus post office and offices for student
organizations. It was a sad day when I returned to campus and found it
gone. However, I did get to see some of the games I worked on show up
there: Tommy, GnR, perhaps one other. That was a nice feeling, to have
come full circle in that way.
Orin
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