Midnight Amusements

Today, it's just a convention center. Later this week, it'll be pinball paradise!

A day and a half drive from Chicagoland is a small price to pay, and it's good to be back in Texas for the Texas Pinball Festival !

Time to play with cartridges. This evening's victim is Wario Land 3. Our friend Wario can't save a game, so we're gonna find out why.

Is this a real Nintendo game and not a knockoff? Well, people usually save knocking a game off for ones that are more lucrative, like Pokemon.

This one has all the marks of being real. Logo and battery on the front, four squares on the rear. Check.

This 25 year old battery is carrying a mighty 0.35 Volts, not good. New battery and two solder points later, we've got 3+ volts. Now we're saving games and can continue...

That was fun.