A couple weekends we stayed at the Comfort Inn in Kamloops. We’ve stayed there a few times before, mostly because it has a pool and waterslide which the kids love. However this was our fist stay on the second floor which has a “games room.” I’m not sure how I could have missed this gem before.
You know the games room is gonna rock when the first thing you see is this:
Sega Out Run
Best value: don't put a quarter in because the game is broken.
So I put in my 3 quarters for two plays and it says there are 6 credits. Woot! Two games for a quarter! The table was old and I noticed a few problems off the bat, like the rubber around the left flipper was floppy and loose, but whatever. But then I started to notice the rubber was falling off everywhere. The balls kept getting stuck and you had to tilt the machine to get them out.
Finally three balls got stuck during a thrilling multi-ball episode and the machine shut down. It feebily displayed a message on it’s dying display: “3 BALLS MISSING.” I managed to get them free by almost flipping the machine upside down, but eventually they all got stuck in the same spot again and could not be freed.
I caught a couple other people plugging in quarters only to find out it wasn’t working. I guess that’s how they make money off this machine. Anyways, in the end I think I had more fun with the broken machine than I would have if it actually worked.
Some more bad pictures of the “Games Room.
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- Best value: don’t put a quarter in because the game is broken.
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- Sega Out Run
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