Sometimes
you can go home again.
Wouldn’t
you go back to being a kid for a few hours if you could?
If
you want to get the adrenaline rush of childhood, go to the Pinball Museum in
Delray Beach, Florida.
It’s
really a vintage arcade where you can play for an hour or all day and night. It’s two
floors of wall-to-wall games we all know and love. There’s Pac-Man, Asteroids,
Galaga, Donkey Kong, and pinball machines going back more than a half-century.
Step
right in and feel the memories flood back. The competitive juices start to flow
through your body. Your hand-eye coordination is quickly challenged. Old
strategies come back to you. Your body stance and positioning fall into place.
Your trigger finger is not as fast as it used to be and an arthritic fatigue
settles in after hours of playing. You love every minute of it as if it
were 1982 again.
By
the time I was done, I’d get the day’s high on Donkey Kong, second highest on
Asteroids, and the highest on some pinball machine for age 50+ males. Yes, they break down scores and records that
way.
God,
so much fun. Joy sticks. Fire buttons. Flippers. The sounds of an arcade abuzz with a room of
dreamers is just as powerful as the sounds we love – the roar of a crowd at a
sporting event, the crashing of waves onto a sunny beach, or music at a
concert.
So
what does any of this have to do with books and marketing? Absolutely nothing,
except that the arcade represents something we all need – a hobby or a release
of energy that is totally disconnected from our writing life. Sometimes we just
need a good escape.
Life
has enough stresses, challenges, and demands. The arcade is such a wonderful
respite from all of that. As an author you are a writer, promoter, marketer,
and cheerleader. All of that takes courage, energy, strategy and talent. The
arcade lets you park your life and allows you to jump into a risk-free war
between you and machine. You strive to beat others and then to improve upon
your scores, always looking to gain an edge to beat your best.
The
arcade has no drawbacks. You leave feeling victorious – or motivated to come
back and try again another day. I can’t wait to go back!
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