{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Just realized the reason why mansion driveways end in those weird little loops is because horse-drawn carriages didn't have a...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/164882253698/", "html": "<p><a href=\"https://argumate.tumblr.com/post/164881681044/kontextmaschine-just-realized-the-reason-why\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">argumate</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"/post/164881528118/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">kontextmaschine</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Just realized the reason why mansion driveways end in those weird little loops is because horse-drawn carriages didn\u2019t have a reverse gear</p></blockquote>\n<p>surely you could have worked in a reference to pinball here</p></blockquote>\n\n<p>I can&rsquo;t think of a time &ldquo;mansion&rdquo; theming coexisted with &ldquo;tight loop&rdquo; layout</p><p>You&rsquo;d think maybe <a href=\"http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1133\" target=\"_blank\">Haunted House</a> but no, it had a bit of a jughandle above the R flippers at best, if you&rsquo;d swapped in the <a href=\"http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=307\" target=\"_blank\">Black Hole</a> lower playfield maybe</p><p>Addams Family, the mansionest table there is, didn&rsquo;t have any loop smaller than the orbit through the bumpers (or I guess L flipper to R ramp back to inlanes)</p><p><a href=\"http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4674\" target=\"_blank\">Simpsons Pinball Party</a> had a perfectly small loop they coulda themed as Burns&rsquo; Mansion but made it Kwik-E-Mart instead</p>"}