Mandatory Fun
Nov. 7th, 2003 04:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
terryclothWe had a morale event today, a party at Jillian's, which went pretty well. They bussed us there and back, so we didn't have to worry about parking -- the first time they had a party at Jillians I wasn't able to go because after driving all the way there there was nowhere to park. It's in Seattle.
Anyway, after playing darts with someone who was also as incompetent with them as I am, I had some pizza and buffalo wings and a dangerous roast beef sandwhich -- dangerous because of the horse radish, which stung my nose even with the cheese and mayo to tone it down. It was made more dangerous because the waiter who was supposed to bring us drinks was never around when I wanted one -- by the time I actually got one, I was already done eating, but boy did I need it!
Then I went to the arcade... most of it was crap, like arcades are nowadays -- racing and shooting games. There was one that stood out as really, really crappy -- 'MTV drumming simulator'. I figured it'd be something like DDR, only with drums, but it wasn't. It played some music, and you played the drums, and... er... yeah. You played whatever you wanted, with no cues or hints as to what would make sense. And all the drums were blank pads, even though one was a cymbol and one was a top hat and one was a bass -- and the bass wasn't the middle bottom one, even. It made no sense. I'm glad I didn't pay for the tokens I wasted on it.
They did have one good machine, though, which made up for all the rest -- it had dozens and dozens of the games from back when arcades didn't totally suck. They were all old, of course, but they had Snow Brothers and Black Tiger and 1942 and a bunch of others from that era. I spent a few tokens on it.
Most of the time was spent playing Puerto Rico with some other people from work -- Geoff, the dev manager, brought a copy. Two copies, actually, but we only had enough for one game. It's a neat board game, where you produce stuff and build buildings and factories and ship it back home for victory points, or sell it at market... I managed to pull off a win, mostly because me and Joann (the player after me) had a lot of the same things to sell, so we could cooperate and ensure that it all got shipped. She came in second, without a terribly huge gap between us.
That took up most of the time, really. There was also pool and ping pong and, of course, the stupid racing and driving games... but I don't really like that stuff.
Anyway, after playing darts with someone who was also as incompetent with them as I am, I had some pizza and buffalo wings and a dangerous roast beef sandwhich -- dangerous because of the horse radish, which stung my nose even with the cheese and mayo to tone it down. It was made more dangerous because the waiter who was supposed to bring us drinks was never around when I wanted one -- by the time I actually got one, I was already done eating, but boy did I need it!
Then I went to the arcade... most of it was crap, like arcades are nowadays -- racing and shooting games. There was one that stood out as really, really crappy -- 'MTV drumming simulator'. I figured it'd be something like DDR, only with drums, but it wasn't. It played some music, and you played the drums, and... er... yeah. You played whatever you wanted, with no cues or hints as to what would make sense. And all the drums were blank pads, even though one was a cymbol and one was a top hat and one was a bass -- and the bass wasn't the middle bottom one, even. It made no sense. I'm glad I didn't pay for the tokens I wasted on it.
They did have one good machine, though, which made up for all the rest -- it had dozens and dozens of the games from back when arcades didn't totally suck. They were all old, of course, but they had Snow Brothers and Black Tiger and 1942 and a bunch of others from that era. I spent a few tokens on it.
Most of the time was spent playing Puerto Rico with some other people from work -- Geoff, the dev manager, brought a copy. Two copies, actually, but we only had enough for one game. It's a neat board game, where you produce stuff and build buildings and factories and ship it back home for victory points, or sell it at market... I managed to pull off a win, mostly because me and Joann (the player after me) had a lot of the same things to sell, so we could cooperate and ensure that it all got shipped. She came in second, without a terribly huge gap between us.
That took up most of the time, really. There was also pool and ping pong and, of course, the stupid racing and driving games... but I don't really like that stuff.
