As a seasoned world traveller, I like to leave my mark everywhere I go. Since you?re not allowed to carve your name into coral reefs, my preferred method is to get such an obscenely high score in a local arcade?s copy of "Silent Scope 2" that my glorious initials, ALF, will forever grace that town?s machine.
Currently you can view my handiword in Spain, Switzerland, France, and England; or, if like some of our readers, you hate foreign people, check out the Luxor at Las Vegas and see if you can approach 1/3 of my score. (you can?t. I?m that good.)
So today I attempted to make my move at Playa del Carmen in sunny Mexico. The game was going great; I had many head hits and had not missed a single target in the first two rounds. In the third round, I hit the first four guys easily enough. From then on, everything would be icing on the cake. As the fifth assassin sped towards me on his skis, I took aim and fired, hitting him -- and so astounding the machine with my skills that it went blank. "IO Failure." Damn.
Next time, Mexico. Next time.