Yes, David and I attended the DSL Reports event at Dave and Busters and lived to tell the tale. Here the “Welcome DSL Reports” screen is clearly visible from the monitor in front of the restrooms, which made an odd kind of sense at the time. I won some coupons at some game, but then left my prizes behind. Actually, the noise and chaos and smoke (the whole place allows smoking) finally got to me in the end.

And why, why, why no pinball machines at a game arcade? That’s just crazy. Most of the games are these stupid quasi-gambling arcade games that don’t require skill and appear to be excellent trainers for future gamblers. I ended up playing a ball-drop game that required a certain amount of timing, force, and luck to pop a ball up and through a moving target or into scoring chutes. I felt pretty good until I got into the prize shop and realized how my 340 points counted for not much. And then some girl walked up with about 2200 points in coupons clutched in a huge bundle in her arms.

And of course, as soon as I ran through my designated $20.00, I spotted a game that actually looked like fun – Hyper Bowling.