--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Don parks" <donparks21@...> wrote:
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> haha, fantaboulos story, can we hear about part 2? When the credit >huslter was given the holy grail...The bonus slot machine or "varible >state" or "wongable" slot , did you participate in the beginning of >that era?
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Yes Sir, I WAS given the Holy Grail. 1996 was the key year. The Williams game called Piggy Bankin' was the start of it. There were a few things before, as the older hustlers told me. But Piggy Bankin' was the real start of the advantage slot era.
How did pre-Commando transform to Commando? The years 92 to 96 were a real oddyssey for me. Towns like Dutch Harbor, Tupelo, Las Vegas, Seattle, Rapid City, Deadwood, Jackson Hole, Bozeman, Frisco, Glenwood Springs, Cripple Creek, Blackhawk, Tama, Mount Pleasant, Mesa, Tucson, Albuquerque, Laughlin come to mind.
I was a no good job skippin', train ridin', thumb bummin' drifter. But I DID have a few things working for me. An aptitude in math. A love for reading. A love for learning. And an iron will to succeed at what I saw as my last opportunity to make anything out of myself. I didn't do it for anybody else. Just for me.
Through all my flaws, one of the things I like about myself is I still love to learn. I have a math problem in one of the games I'm currently analyzing. I'm gonna take it to the vpFREEer's sometime in the next couple of days. I need to learn some new math.
The nineties are long gone now. But at heart, I'm still a no good job skippin', train ridin', thumb bummin' drifer. I really DO miss it.
