Hi, I thought I'd introduce myself, found MLG via the podcast a few months ago, must leave a sexy review soon.
Would describe myself as midlife to past it gamer!!
I'm old enough to get a free Parker pen so have a long gaming history. Started playing slot machines in arcades like the torpedo game, shark attack, pinball was always a favourite ( still is) and an old game where you had to shoot a biplane that went from one side of a cabinet to the other on a wire, you used a machine gun and when you hit the plane it would dive down with flashing lights and crash, I think it was called rear gunner.

I have owned most consoles and some early home computers, no Sega ones though sorry to say.

Lived in Banbury Oxfordshire till 2001 when I moved to Filey in North Yorkshire.

Currently own gamecube, xbox, wii and a 360 plus IPod and iPad.

Gamer tag is steve zodiac. IOS game centre is stevezodiac1

Play most types of game, favourites are driving games, rpg, pinball sims, sandbox games, occasional shooter.

Feel free to add me.

Steve Miles

Re. Godd Todd.

I have tried the visual pinball available on the net, but it is a bit too technical for me! It seems to crash on starting or I got no sound effects ect.

I will give it another go as I found a tutorial on the net which seems straightforward, I'm using windows 7 now so maybe it will be easier than vista.

Console sims I like include pinball dreams on the amiga and its follow up fantasies, these are still available on psn network and Ios including an new hd version of dreams for a couple of quid.

Nintendo game boys had some good pinball as well, kirby's pinball land is excellent, the pokemon pinball games on gbc and gba and also sonic pinball party which had three tables, a sonic one, samba de amigo and a nights table.

On the Ds you've got metriod prime pinball, also of note was a table on dsiware shop, Pinball pulse the ancients beckon.

I nearly forgot True pinball on the ps1, four tables on this one I think.

I've got Williams pinball Classics on the 360 and it has some great tables all worth a go, the challenge mode is well done and hard because you cannot save between challenges, its fun reaching the goals and unlocking tables. When you complete the challenge mode you get an achievement worth 100 points and unlock the last table which is an old classic table!

I look forward to reading your review, it gets the thumbs up from me.

Almost forgot pinball fx on 360 and zen pinball, loads of tables to enjoy here. My favourite is one of the first tables Agents. Had some really high scores on Fx but lost them when the old xbox failed.

Cheers

Steve Zodiac was my favourite character in the 60's, he had a love interest called Venus, a robot called Robert who started smoking when he got stressed and a rocket ship on rails (literally) called Fireball XL5. Check it out on YouTube.

Never had tin can alley, used to drool over those toys in mums catalogue, I never looked at the lingerie section…honest! we used to have spud guns and used to be able to buy a toy rocket which you stuck a cap in the top under a spring, you threw it up and when it came down it went bang. Oh the memories lol.

Sorry I'm rambling.
Now where's that old catalogue gone??