I don’t remember where this came from but… here we go! Top 15 reasons why the Information Technology Department of your business sucks.

1. Your IT sucks because we can’t possibly know how to do every thing that is asked of us.
2. Your IT sucks because our first line of defense are people who may or may not have an A+ certification, because we can’t afford anything else.
3. Your IT sucks because we’re undermanned.
4. Your IT sucks because half or more of the IT staff are contractors and ultimately don’t care if the company fails.
5. Your IT sucks because, although the vast majority of users are fine people, a handful of you drain the life out of us with a barrage of emails complaining about one thing or another.
6. Your IT sucks because your upper management gets our attention when perhaps you have the bigger issue, making us look unresponsive and uncaring.
7. Your IT sucks because upper management doesn’t support us, forcing us to provide help for any old item.
8. Your IT sucks because a lot of us are realizing that apparently we are in the service business. We think that because we all work for the same company that you will be forgiving of our mistakes or lack of knowledge.
9. Your IT sucks because we are more than likely a lot of geek/nerd types who don’t want to talk to people, causing you to revert back to your high school emotions every time you see one of us walking by pushing a cart.
10. Your IT sucks because you have no patience, and think that 10 minutes should be the turn-around time for every little phone call.
11. Your IT sucks because we take a lunch break, too, and you think we should be fixing your computer while you lounge in the cafe with your co-workers. Note: We eat at the same time, and sometimes, we get to go home at the same time, as you.
12. Your IT sucks because there’s a fairly good chance that some of us make more money than you, we’re geeks, dress like one, and it just eats you up inside.
13. Your IT sucks because you have an attitude when your computer breaks and say we have to fix it mid-day. Don’t act like its our fault that it broke, its yours because you believed those windows that were popping up saying you were infected. So keep your attitude to yourself.
14. Your IT sucks because we spend all day fixing the little crap that end users do to their computers. We either: A) don’t give you admin rights but get called when you want to install the latest Adobe Flash player or B) give you admin rights and let you destroy the computer and treat it like your home PC. Damned if we do, damned if we don’t.
15. Your IT sucks because, when everything runs well, managers think “why do we need so many IT staff?” and they start firing people.

                          

Beat The Dragon

Play the Bonus Game from Tic-Tac-Dough. Get $1,000 and you win, but watch out for that dragon.

                          

Here are the standings for all participants in the 2010 JPA PinGolf Tournament. I look forward to doing it again next League season which starts in early September. Many thanks to all who played.

1st Jim Fordham
2nd Sanjay Shah
3rd Kevin Smigel
4th Ed Zeltmann
5th Paul Drabik
6th (TIE) Steven Bowden
6th (TIE) Frank Romero
8th Koi Morris 
9th Mike Field
10th Joe Oesterling

                          

“… except for the bagpipes.”

(There are NINE parts to this video series. Use them all to cleanse your mind.)

                          

Tim Arnold

Gamasutra’s “dormant pinball nerd” Kris Graft speaks with Tim Arnold of the non-profit Pinball Hall of Fame in Las Vegas, and contemplates the attraction of pinball from a digital gamer’s perspective.

From: Gamasutra

This reminds me… I really have to edit and post the rest of the video I made from the IFPA PinMasters tournament that took place at the Pinball Hall of Fame.

                          

NEVER.

                          

Shoot 1-up

“Each life obtained is automatically added to your arsenal. Have 10 lives? You’ll have 10 ships on screen shooting the hell out of everything. You can have up to 30 ships on screen at a time and play in 2 player co-op. Follow Mommy’s Best Games Twitter account, for potentially free download codes around the release.” (GamerBytes)
Demon’s Souls

Zero Punctuation reviews Demon’s Souls and let’s us know how balls-hard it is.

Pinferno 2

The Spawn of Pinferno was held at Reciprocal NYC

Pics of the event

Video footage!

Arcade Hunters – the Podcast

Arcade-Hunters.com just started their own podcast called, “Gabbin’ with Arcade Hunters.”
NYC Pinball Wiki

The New York City Pinball Wiki is up at nycpinball.info
Here’s hoping that

DeathSmiles
and
Mushihimesama Futari

get USA releases on Xbox 360…

                          

Interview with Captain Kirk – Owner of Castle Video

Nick from Arcade Hunters interviews “Captain Kirk” owner of Castle Video which is home to over 20 top-condition pinball games including the latest STERN games.
New STERN Investor

Stern Pinball Inc has a new investor and partner who hopes to turn the business around and halt the decline in sales over recent years.

Silverball Museum – Pinball Hall of Fame

One man working hard to bring pinball and other classic amusements back to Asbury Park is Rob Ilvento who built his business selling fried chicken under the Cluck-U-Chicken brand and French fries through the Jersey Shore Fries company. (Pinball News)
Michael Jackson, Sonic 3 Urban Legend Confirmed… Maybe
Urban legend confirmed! According to Michael Jackson’s composer, Brad Buxer, the King of Pop arranged the blips and bloops Sonic 3′s OST.

Unless, he didn’t.
Super Mario Bros. Series Unfair to Turtles

Tongue firmly in cheek, University of Pittsburgh student Ben Korman has penned a column decrying the way turtles are portrayed and treated in Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. series of games.
Video Game War =/= Real Life War

“napalmstrikesback” uses his drug high to speak the straight truth about Modern Warfare 2 and other controversial games for nearly 9 minutes. If this is your brain on drugs, then I want what he’s having!
Jersey Pinball Association Gauntlet

We have a winner!

The Onion Sends Up Modern Warfare 2

This will be the realest representation of real war ever!
Dr. Mario with Lyrics

Brentalfloss teams up with DarkV to produce a magnificent parody of Dr. Mario
Pin Wall

“How do you take a normal building face and turn it into something interesting? With Pinwall, of course! This project was designed by Urban Screen who have gone about creating similar projects in the past although this would mark the first time pinball is involved.” (Arcade Heroes)
Until We Win – Super Castlevania IV

SCIV was one of the best games made for the Super Nintendo. “Lordcat” provides a very detailed strategy review on how to beat the game.

The Nostalgia Critic

Reviews 2 of the Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon series: Adventure of Sonic the Hedgehog and Sonic SatAM.
Until We Win – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

That fact that he (Lordcat) beat TMNT for the NES is an achievement. This video review is another one. Damn that dam level.
Et tu, Mario?
“Murder, looting, pizza theft, and other hazards of cooperative video-gaming.” (Slate)

A Shmups Documentary
“This is a French documentary from Gameone covering the evolution of the shmup genre.” (YouTube)

                          

Arcade Hunters

8 on the Break

Castle Video Part 1 | Part 2

Before there was Grand Theft Auto there was… Death Race! Videogame violence indeed.

Star Fox in Iraq

Do a barrel roll! “Fighting terrorists is hard enough without a frog yelling at you.” (CollegeHumor)
Jersey Pinball Association Gauntlet

The JPA Gauntlet jackpot increases again, and we have a new game replacing Fish Tales:  Whitewater. The goal for this game is 20 Million + Make a “Multi Millions” ramp shot for 4 Million.


Inside Akihabara

Videogame mecca of Japan


Once Upon a Pixel

“What if Katamari Damacy were a hard-boiled comic book?” (Destructoid)


Pacific Pinball Expo 2009

“Clips of the show, pin-tourneys, SF Bay area. For the best pinball tourney tips visit http://www.pinballvideo.com/”


Totally Rad Show

Time-lapse of The Totally Rad Show’s 24 Hour Gaming Marathon, benefiting the Texas Children’s Hospital, fighting pediatric cancer.


Video Game Dioramas

“Video game geeks are a creative bunch — especially those capable of creating artwork depicting characters and places most people over the age of 40 would never recognize. How do you take your game to the next level (pun intended)? Build fantastic dioramas of scenes from the best games ever made.” (Bitmob)

                          

Kirby Mario?

Mario image parodies!

Bowser’s Inside Story

Zero Punctuation reviews the newest Mario and Luigi RPG saga.
JPA Gauntlet news

The JPA Gauntlet Jackpot increases again!

Also, thanks to KOI for his sponsorship.
R. I. P. Captain Lou Albano

“Captain Lou Albano, the WWE Hall of Fame inductee who parlayed his wrestling career into becoming the live-action face of Mario in “The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!” died Wednesday at age of 76.”
The but satisfier

Satisfying all your buts!
MaRiO’s WoRsT NiGhTmAreS

Dude… that’s messed up!
Sonic has Pink eye?

You cannot un-see it now!

                          

Jersey Pinball Asoociation Gauntlet

The Jackpot has increased, and Jack*bot replaces ST:TNG.  The Jack*bot target score is 800 Million + 4 Jack*Bots.
Pacific Pinball Expo 2009 Coverage

Pinball News – “This is the third annual Pacific Pinball Expo show and like the previous two, it is being held at the Marin Center in San Rafael, California.”
Special When Lit

A Pinball Documentary
Pinball on a Stick

IFPA 6 Coverage from London England

More IFPA 6…

Knuckles Briefs

From the same people who brought you “Sonic Shorts.” Knuckles finally gets some props… sort of.

The Highest Pinball Tournament in the World?

Dory Hill campground Pinball Tournament walk-around

Also… young [EJL] shows us how to kick @$$ on getaway

Bleep Bloop: Pinball

“ClassicPinball.com repairs, sells, and rents pinball machines. Team Bloop went outside for the first time in weeks to investigate.”

Luigi Finally Snaps

Yes, it’s old… I don’t care.

                          

Tramp Stamp

“…pinball flippers on her lower back with buttons on her side.  She calls them her ‘interactive tramp stamp’”

Respect to sigma from TiltWarning

That’s a 50 dkp MINUS!

Odd groups left, even groups right. NO AGGRO RESET! More dots! More Dots now! Nuke it as hard as possible! Save all your aggro reducing abilities!
Game: Cube Colussus

“Cube Colossus is about two people searching through a massive, cube-shaped fortress in search of a girl. As they travel, they encounter tougher and tougher defenses, all in an effort to keep them from penetrating to the core of the cube.”
Espgaluda II

Will be released for the Xbox 360.

US release please?
Game: Mario Ghost House

Mario took a shortcut and got lost in the haunted house. Help him solve the puzzles and find his way out.
Top Shmups Highlights

Impethuth

Dancing Marina

Inglourious Plummers

“At long last, someone has finally combined Quentin Tarantino’s tale of a group of soldiers who scalp Nazi soldiers and Shigeru Miyamoto’s tale of a group of plumbers who stomp turtle soldiers.”
Shmup: Enigmata

Enigmata takes place on a wide screen as you travel vertically through the stage. There are achievements (of course), but unlike most games, these achievements actually count towards something. In this case, as you gain more achievements, you gain access to shops with better equipment.

Sonic the Hedghog – Scrap Brain Zone Remix

Listen NAO!

by chrisdavy
Mario: Poker Style

“(Super Mario) makes his hallowed appearance again. And this time it’s poker chips, arranged to for his mighty self as well as other characters from the game.”
A List About Pinball!

11 things you didn’t know about pinball history. Well, if you are a pin player you probably did know some of these.
Street Fighter Table for Zen Pinball – Review

“Zen Pinball saw it’s first table expansion yesterday with the release of the Street Fighter 2 tribute table, and it’s a pretty awesome add-on for $2.49, and absolutely worth picking up if you’ve already bought Zen Pinball previously”

Zen Pinball for PlayStation Network – Review

“… the follow-up pinball title by developer ZEN Studios, who had a previous release called Pinball FX on XBLA. This is the first PSN Pinball title to date, and it’s a pretty awesome attempt at bringing home a real pinball experience to consoles, and definitely worth the $10 asking price on PSN.”