argumate:

kontextmaschine:

Just realized the reason why mansion driveways end in those weird little loops is because horse-drawn carriages didn’t have a reverse gear

surely you could have worked in a reference to pinball here

I can’t think of a time “mansion” theming coexisted with “tight loop” layout

You’d think maybe Haunted House but no, it had a bit of a jughandle above the R flippers at best, if you’d swapped in the Black Hole lower playfield maybe

Addams Family, the mansionest table there is, didn’t have any loop smaller than the orbit through the bumpers (or I guess L flipper to R ramp back to inlanes)

Simpsons Pinball Party had a perfectly small loop they coulda themed as Burns’ Mansion but made it Kwik-E-Mart instead