Apologies for the posting gap. It’s been a busy few months out in the real world. That, and a broken Pengo machine at the Milkbar Café, conspired to severely limit my Pengo play. But I’ve now completed my Masters program, walked 800 kilometres across Spain on the Camino Frances, and the Pengo machine is fixed.
So all is right with the world!
Since I’ve been back in the country, I’ve only played a handful of games. And yesterday I managed to top the million point mark for the first time since 11 April, which is probably about the time that the machine broke. It was actually a problem with the coin mechanism not accepting coins, not with the game itself.
The million point game score - my 64th since May 2013 - was 1,319,520. It was a steady game with a very big effort from the third Pengo but not much of a contribution from the final two. The final death on Act 12 was a bit disappointing, but all-in-all, a positive outcome.
Not much has changed in the all-important Aurcade high score rankings where I’m still king of the world! It’s a strange and anxious feeling clicking onto that site once in a while waiting for the high scores to appear to see if I’m still there. And a small pang of relief when it does.
