I’ve been pretty obsessed with the Skee Ball iPhone game recently… SKEE BALL!
I think Skee Ball is the best arcade game ever made. And the iPhone game is very true to form… You flick the ball up the ramp into the slots for points, and the points get you tickets. There’s also a prize counter where you can redeem points for random things like Peruvian Pan Flute CDs, Magic 8 Balls and Lava Lamps.
Scott’s work also had a (real) Skee Ball competition as part of an overall “Office Olympics”. (I know, how great would that be?)
In preparation for that, and because I’ve been so fascinated with the iPhone game, we decided to hit up the Skee Ball lanes at Lucky Strike in Bellevue a few weeks ago. Obviously we had the place to ourselves. It was a weeknight.
I can attest that the real life game is more difficult than the iPhone app game! In part because you’re paying to play each game with real money, and you want to maximize your points. So the strategy is to go up the middle, whereas in the iPhone game my strategy is to go for the corner slots (worth more points) only.
Side note. The Skee Ball lanes at Gameworks downtown are a lot less expensive than the ones at Lucky Strike. We stumbled on them on Friday at a friend’s birthday party. I have also heard that there’s a bar in Ballard with a Skee Ball tournament on Thursdays! I don’t think I’m quite competition ready. I’m going to need a few more practice nights.
