You really had to explore the hotel area to find everything. When I headed downstairs I was surprised by walking in to rooms with mini-arcades. Each room had the same deal, all free to play. So I played a bit of Kangaroo, a Donkey Kong clone, and a Japanese import Macross (e.g. Robotech) and a few other arcade games that I hadn't played in decades. It was hard not to play everything but I had to explore more!



So tucked away in another side room was one that had a bunch of video game consoles. Most were old ones, some I've never played before but they also several of these set up:



I gave it a whirl. One of the guys volunteering in the area came over and walked me through the initial mech power-up phase. You had to press a few buttons, flick a few switches, neat stuff.  Then he gave me a few pointers on the controls and foot pedals and sent me on my way. I didn't know what the hell I was doing in the mission but got my mech out of the docking bay, blew up a bunch of stuff, pressed a few buttons on the controller to swap weapons, and managed to finish the mission. Overall a real neat experience.

I asked him if they were going to network the consoles together for multi-play and he said they tried that last year and it didn't work out. People were too confused by the controls which I can see.

Also in this room was an Intellivision with Burger Time on it. Never did get an Intellivision but my cousins had it and was always a bit jealous of that since the graphics were so much better than the 2600's. But man that controller SUCKS for platforming games like Burger Time.



Another room had a mix of classic video games and old computers that you could play games on. For computers I saw a few there I've never seen before including a Commodore Pet, an Apple ///, and a C64 with a dual-disk drive. They even had my old Apple //e there where someone was playing Oregon Trail.



They did a great job with this room as they had 80's music playing and even had some 70's/80's artifacts to set the atmosphere.



But they also had some modern stuff like 4-player Smash Bro's.

[Spoiler]

The next day was the real start of the show. Those that pre-purchased tickets could get them the day before. I waited in line for about 10 minutes to get my tickets. Those that got their tickets the day of the show waited a bit longer.



There were a few things I wanted to see at the show and being able to play the Wizard of Oz table was one of them. This is a new pinball table that is still being worked on and has mainly only been out in the prototype stage. But when I went over there there were like 15 people in the line so I decided to try later. I had two days the line would go down.

But it didn't. I never saw the line less than 7 people and said screw it and never bothered to wait to try it out. A bit of reget there but also knew my game would last all of a minute when I got up there after waiting a long time.



As you can see it was quite packed there.



Games to play were all over the place but the main play area was the Arcade hall which had a bunch of pinball machines and arcade games packed in together in a single room - all free to play. After about 30 minutes they turned the lights off and then it really felt like an old arcade. They had some odd pinball machines there too including the Trilogy Brewing Company pinball game. Score 100,00 and put your beer mug under this tap and get some beer!



And no it wasn't working. Just there for the fun of it.

There was also a Miss World table that no one seemed to be playing.



And then found out why some people might be hesitant (NSFW). I played it a few times.

Spoiler for Hiden:

I'll post some more pics tomorrow from the event. There were a lot of neat things set up there including a bunch of old video and computer game systems. Plus about 10 iMac systems set up to play the original Quake via LAN. Talk about a lot of fun and time flying by.

So what is the Up to Par Tournament? Well I knew I would suck at any of the pinball tournaments as I haven't played pinball in forever beyond the virtual pinball, so I did the Up To Par Tournament. You're given a list of 15 video games and you choose 9 of those games from the list. Each video game is on a different system. Some going as far back as the 70's up to current systems (e.g. Vita). You basically play one game and try and score as high as you can. Your final score determines your stroke for that "hole". You add up the score at the end and the person with the lowest score wins.

Here's the 15 games you could choose from. I don't think anyone saw what games you would be playing until right before you got taken to the tournament.



I basically wanted to have fun so I tried to choose a bunch of games I hadn't played before:

Jungle Hunt (on an NES?)
Typing of the Dead (Dreamcast)
Pole Position 2 (Atari 7800?)
Galaga (unsure what system)
Gates of Thunder (TurboGraphix)
Raiden (Don't recall)
Geomety Wars 2 (xbox 360)
Duck Hunt (NES)
Zen Pinball 2 (Vita)

Was doing great on a few of the games, kicked ass in Pole Position 2. Was getting real tired at the end and tanked on the last two games. Including Zen Pinball 2 (Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back table) which I figured I would do last and do the best in. You had to score as many points as you could with a single ball and I lost it like 10 seconds in. Ugh!

But it was still great fun and my caddy that was with me was a great guy too and I think he appreciated that I played a few games others probably wouldn't have chosen. Here was my final score:



Didn't place at all with that score. Oh well. Was doing it for the fun of it.

So I went to this this past weekend. Been really pining to play some pinball and this turned out to be the perfect way to to it. Had a fantastic time even though I had gone by my self and played a ton of games both pinball and all types of video games. It exceeded any expectations I had. Here's some picture heavy posts recapping the event.

I showed up on Friday. The show doesn't officially start until Saturday but they have a few tournaments and other events going on Friday. I did the Tom Taylor Tour and the Up to Par tournament. The Tom Taylor tour was off site. Basically this guy has over 300 pinball machines and electromagnetic games in his warehouse. You get there at 3pm and can play as much as you want till 8pm.

Most of the pinball tables were from 50-80's but he had quite a few from the 80's-90s too. Here's just one of the rooms with a few classic arcade games and a bunch of EM pinball machines.



Only 100 tickets to the event were allowed and 300 machines so plenty of machines were open.



It was just room after room full of pins and arcade games. This one had a bunch of modern style pinballs, including a Baby PacMan which is a cross between an video game and pinball machine. I played it a few times but sucked.



He also had the Hercules pinball machine. The worlds largest pinball machine (the ball is the size of a billiard ball). Unfortunately it was not up and running. But you can see the size of it here.



Here's another room. There's a ton more pins to the right of this image and you can see another room fill with pins in the distance. Along the side of the wall here you can see a bunch of these plastic hand-held pinball type games from the 50's just covering the wall.



I was there from 3 till around 7 when I had to call it quits as I had the Up to Par tourny at 9. So reluctantly left to get some food and downtime. Plan on going to this next year for sure. There were a bunch of games I didn't get to play. But I did get to play a few of the pins that are in Pinball Aracde including Gorgar, Firepower and Central Park.

Started replaying this again recently. When I had to choose a server the population status on each of them either displayed High or whatever was above that (Full?). So wondering how they are going to hold up with a new influx of players. It is nice having a bunch of players running around in the game (at least in the starting areas).

That looks pretty good to me!

Ooh that looks lovely. And outside too! Can't wait.

Up until Bioshock came out I've been playing the Master Levels mod. It doesn't seem to be quite as challenging as I was expecting but in some areas it is deathly hard. Its been awhile since I played the main game so I can't even tell where the changes are. Was having a blast with it though. But would welcome a sequel.

Watched the first episode the other night. Started pretty slow for me but by the end I kinda enjoyed it. The acting from the mother and son were what kept it going for me. The show is kinda odd as it waffles between being serious and quirky - like Twin Peaks quirky. There's a character with an oxygen tank that pops up out of nowhere in a very Twin Peaks style way. And then there's an odd scene with a sheriff, a toilet and a dead body that I wasn't sure if they were shooting for being a tense situation or comical.

It doesn't seem like it'll be the next must see show for me but I've seen plenty of other shows that started off not being stellar and then eventually got there (Vampire Diaries and Once Upon a Time being the latest examples for me).

All these sci-fi posters are looking the same these days.

Fantastic price for Dirt 3. If you haven't tried this racing series before its worth checking out at this price.

I'm still playing it off and on. It's still surprisingly fun. Working on paying off my 400k loan so I can take out a 500k one for another employee and a new truck. I think I've hit all the countries in some form but still plenty of roads I haven't traveled.

Had a spooky delivery a bit ago where I hauled a JCB to a quarry of some sort. I got there late at night and it was raining to boot. Driving in there and down in to the depths of the quarry was like something out of a horror movie.

Yup, also really enjoyed Once Upon a Time. As mentioned the budget sucks where the special effects and costumes are so crappy. But the writing is surprisingly good and you keep on wanting to guess which person is which fairy tale character. It's got a bit of Lost in there with the flash backs and as it goes along the budget does improve some where things don't look as cheap as they did in the initial episodes.

The episode that tells the origin of Grumpy dwarf is just too much fun too.

Looking forward to when the second season appears on Netflix.

About in the same boat with this one. Still have a season pass on the DVR, and its something to watch, but I would be fine if there was a glitch and the season pass got deleted.

Gratch if you keep at it and play often your skills will improve I've spent countless hrs as a kid playing pinball and videogames my wasted youth lol.

That's what I thought, but it seems the more I play lately, the worse I get.  I hit a high score on Medival Madness of 39 million right after watching the tutorial video, and haven't even come close to it in 100+ games since.  Frustrating.

Medieval Madness is a difficult table as its so fast and the ball will drain quickly if you're not paying attention. If you're looking to just score points I would just focus on the castle - the gate and the side entrance. The other "madness" modes will open up naturally as you play.

If you're looking to cut your teeth on Pinball Arcade tables I would recommend Creature from the Black Lagoon. Creature is a pretty slow table. It'll allow you to practice lining up shots for the left and right ramps, along with center shots. Its also slow enough that you can easily catch the balls with the flippers giving you control over your shots. The multi-ball is only 2-balls so easy to manage. Plus there's a pretty fun video mode - one of the better ones.

It's a table you can really work up your skills on.

The only catch is its a low scoring table if you don't know what you are doing (read the instructions). But basically to score high you have to master shooting the left ramp a bunch of times and then shooting up the center. Once you can do that consistently you'll get a pretty decent score when you want it. Not a fun way to play the table but its a good thing to try and master first before moving on to the other scoring methods.

Guns, Girls and Gambling was a delightfully off the wall film:

This story throws Elvis impersonators, Native Americans, a cowboy, a drop dead beautiful blond assassin, a frat boy, two corrupt sheriffs, the girl next door and a prostitute into a chase for a million dollar Native American artifact stolen during a poker game at a casino.

Sheesh. Why do they keep remaking the same crap! Why not come up with something original for once!

Central Park is another electro magnetic table, similar to Top Shot and Genie. This one is a drain monster though. There's double drains on either side of the flippers and the flippers are pretty far apart making drains easy down the middle. It looks like you really need to nudge a lot to keep the ball in play and nudging on the iOS just isn't that great. So not sure how much I'll play this one.

Ok Central Park is actually pretty cool. You actually don't need to nudge much at all to have a good game. There's two phases to this table.

1) Advance the yellow and green target values so they're both set to Special.

2) Enjoy the hell out of the table racking up tons of free balls and points

Basically once you get the specials lit, and they stay lit, you can earn free balls pretty easily. I'm actually not sure what shots earn them but I was basically earning a free ball by the time I would lose a ball - which was frequently. It actually made the table fun as hell.

So it's worth sticking with till you pass phase 1 to open up the table.

That's the kind of thing that can ruin your whole weekend. Glad it worked out ok for you.

It actually happened on a Friday and did indeed ruin my weekend. I mean I can laugh about it now but I it sure wasn't fun at the time.

Couldn't the act of laughing now kill you? 

Sorry this happened to you and hope you get better soon. On the bright side it was a good catch for the lung disease.

Pinball Arcade released its next pinball pack for $4.99. It contains Cactus Canyon (video) and Central Park.

Cactus Canyon is basically like Blazing Saddles the pinball game - a humorous take on westerns. It has an interesting history. This was the last dot matrix display game Bally/Williams created. This was during the downswing of pinball games in arcades and Bally was invested in the Pinball 2000 games, that had monitors instead of DMDs and the hologram type effects, to try and turn things around (didn't work). In fact the team building this table was disbanded before it was 100% complete. So it's missing a bit of polish, like there's no fun free game match video or sound and it looks like the Bionic Bart mode never got completed, but its fully playable. It's also a rare table with only 900 units shipping. I played a bunch of it on Visual Pinball and its a lot of fun. After trying this version I won't be going back to the VP one.

Central Park is another electro magnetic table, similar to Top Shot and Genie. This one is a drain monster though. There's double drains on either side of the flippers and the flippers are pretty far apart making drains easy down the middle. It looks like you really need to nudge a lot to keep the ball in play and nudging on the iOS just isn't that great. So not sure how much I'll play this one.

Some additonal improvements with this release including the "update all tables" button which will just automatically update the tables to the latest version. Before each release you had to go through the tables one by one to update them.

Sounds like Pinball Aracde will be making it to Steam at some point. A long time coming -  but of course that just means now I'm going to have to buy the tables twice now. Ugh.

Arcania wasn't terrible but it also wasn't really Gothic. More like Gothic lite. From what I recall it was close to a 20hr game. I played through the entire thing, and enjoyed parts of it, but never had enough enthusiasm to install the add-on (Setariff) even though I own it.

I ended up getting the Marvel Unlimited app too to revist some of those old comics I hadn't read in forever and check out some of the new stuff. The app really needs work though it's pretty clunky. You should be able to search/add comics to your library from the comics cover page. Instead you have to click on the comic, then choose add to library, then click Done to go back. When you want to add a bunch of comics, particularly in a series, that can become real tiresome. And for Series events there should just be an "add all to library" button rather than having to go through the adding process 6-12 times.

Also this seems like a bug but the only way I could get the full comic in offline mode was to first read the comic while connected, then go back in to the comic and choose Offline mode. If I chose offline mode before reading the comic and then selected the download button it would only download a 3-page preview.

They need to add swipe navigation to the app without having those large transparent navigation controls appear on the screen. They overlap the comic and the only way to remove them is to tap on the screen again - so basically each time you navigate to the page you want you have to double-tap the screen.

So it's pretty clunky in parts making the experience more difficult that it needs to be to get/read comics but for $60 its still fine for my needs. Hopefully they'll improve the experience as they go along.

Looks like Comixology isn't able to meet demand yet and have temporarily paused the sale while they fix things. Can read about it here.

Updated the heading to reflect Marvel.com is also running this event, and its 2-days.

Comixology looks to be slowly coming back as I'm able to get the site via the web browser but can't log in there. Also can't download any of the issues via the app yet but can add the issues fine. Comixology Twitter page says they have Top Men working on their site issues....Top Men.

FYI use the app if you are having problems with the site via the browser. The browser site kept timing out. With the app I was able to "purchase" issues - 183 total. It was still a bit slow with grabbing some issues but worked out well. I was not able to download any issues. They just timed out. I imagine once the sale is over download would be reliable again.

Crazy sale though. I wonder if this is in response to the Marvel Unlimited app that just came out. Kinda takes the piss out of it.

Comixology and Marvel.com has 700 different Marvel series issues up for free until Tuesday night. These are all issues #1 of various Marvel series.

I haven't seen a free sale like this before on that site - it's kinda crazy. So if you're just curious about comics or are looking to check out the start of variousseries this is a great way to do it for no cost. If you have a tablet I would highly reccomend the Comixology app which is just fantastic.

Just a warning the site was pretty slow as I can image its getting hammered.

Is this a beta you can comment on it or still NDA? Ended up getting in since I stupidly purchased the lifetime for Champions way back when.

Yeah, this doesn't look good to me either and I'm a huge Ultima fan. Looks like a generic action RPG light game to me. Passing.

Gah Steam! By default the cloud save is on for this game by default. I ended up losing almost two hours of playing as it couldn't sync and get my save back. Why is that on by default?

To turn off cloud save go in to your game Library, right-click on the game and choose Properties, then on the Updates tab uncheck the cloud box.

Put another hour and change to get back to where I was. It was a small blessing as I ended up discovering a lot of hidden nooks along the way, collecting all the items I could in the areas, and having a better understanding of the attribute upgrades. Really loving the game and loving that it looks and runs so great.

Watched Rec 3. Terrible. They basically tried to turn the movie in to a Resident Evil type film where it didn't take itself seriously. And the rabies stuff is in there but they changed it to be more supernatural than biological. They do the shakey cam thing for the first 30-40 minutes of the film then moved to traditonal film. Still not worth watching. But I did rate it 2 stars since I sat through the entire thing.

13hrs in and still loving the game. Found a very help feature which was Cruise Control (C on the keyboard by default). Beats holding down the forward key for the majority of the drive. Especially now that I'm doing very long drives.

I paid off my initial 100k loan and took out a 400k loan to upgrade my garage, buy another truck, and hire my first employee - Katarina. Even colored the truck pink for her. But man does she stink initially. Cost me some money the first two jobs. But she's getting better and her jobs are slowly bringing in some cash. Her last one brought in 1K which was a nice change from her 60s and 130s. I'm epecting good things from her when she gets a bit more training.

I have to say the best experiene I had from this game - there have been many - was that initial time where I said fuck it and took a job outside of my comfort zone well away from my garage. I went deeper in to Europe and despite a lot of initial hesitation I haven't looked back. I've been exploring the European roads since. Getting to the UK was probably the next biggest shock as I was not used to driving on the other side of the road nor the roundabouts which still seem crazy to me. Way out of my comfort zone there. But the jobs going to and from the UK paid so well I kept doing them - plus getting some sleep on the ferry is always nice. The other great moment is finally figuring out how to back your trailer in. Now when I'm delivering its like, Ok I have to pull in this way so the trailer will be angled like so, reverse, turn the wheel this way, then that way, pull up a little, back in, done. Always a great feeling when you can park it in one shot.

I'm pretty much sticking to two radio stations now for 60-80s music which are Veronica Rock in NL and Linz - Rock Life. I dunno what it is with those stations though as they keep playing REO Speedwagons "Can't Fight This Feeling" and The Hooters "Johnny B" waaaay too often. They're painful to listen to.

Really hope Steam allows for the Workshop to work with this game. I haven't tried any of the mods since they seem like a scattered mess at the moment.

Magnets actually get used on real tables, too (but, yeah, they don't have giant AT-ATs popping out).

There's a few tables in Pinball Arcade that use magnets like that too. Theatre of Magic uses them to save the ball from draining out down the side lanes - the ball will start to drain then "magically" be pulled back in to play. Tales of the Arabian Knights also has one at the small platform in front of the Genie to hold the ball before multiball triggers. Twilight Zone has the magnetic flippers which are fun and the ball will stop due to a magnet at the spiral locations when those are active.

I'm more drawn towards the realistic table play than the Zen stuff but some of the Zen stuff is a lot of fun too.

And for the ball speeding up I think that is intentional too as the ball skin changes to a red skin for the duration its going fast, then goes back to the normal silver skin. To me that's just normal Zen wackiness. It's caught me off guard a few times and lost balls because of it.

FYI my rankings of table difficulty were how hard the tables were to me on my initial play throughs. I had the hardest time figuring out how to complete scenes on the Empire table and the least amount of trouble completing missions on the Clonewars table. On the Empire table Luke was having a hell of a time finding his light sabre on Hoth, he couldn't concentrate enough for Yoda, and the AT-AT was free to stomp as I couldn't locate the tow cables. On the Clonewars table I was loading up injured on to the ship wherever it was landing, deactivating force fields and even got to a mini-pinball table section - where admittedly I couldn't hit any of the drop targets and lost the ball pretty quickly.

I read through the Empire instructions before I went to bed last night and that helped clear things up - basically each scene has you shooting various lit up lanes, which I wasn't noticing were lit up. I haven't had a chance to go back and actually play the table again after reading that so hoping I can put in to play what is clear now.

FYI the tables are available on iOS. They all seem pretty decent from the little I played of each. The Empire table seems the most complex of the three and the Clone Wars the least - Boba in the middle. They do not have all the original voice actors audio for everyone I quickly noticed. Luke doesn't sound quite right. Han and Yoda sound pretty close though.

The tables have all the regular standard wackiness of the Zen tables although I think a new trick seems to be a pop up ramp in the center table. On the Empire table the ball uses the ramp the fly in the air - I think I was trying to hit astroids but they were off screen so couldn't tell for sure. On the Clone Wars table it sends the ball up the ramp in and to a ship which collects it and flys off to another part of the board. Kinda fun.

Will have to read the instructions for each table to really figure them out though.

They are $1.99 each on iOS.

After reading that I still don't get what the big stink is about. Bad games get released all the time.

I've been using mouse+keyboard. I'll have to give the controller a whirl.

Well that was quick response from GMG. It's the better deal but only slightly for me since I own all of those games but Spec Ops and Mafia. Guess I'll be getting Spec Ops. Gonna go with the $16 GMG credit as I purchase enough games from them and likely just use it towards the season pass when they get a deal going on it.

Looks like both of those $15 credits are just for use on 2K games. Which makes it less appealing to me. Will see with GMG does.

That would be a pretty sweet deal. Bioshock Infinite is Steam only, right?

Pinball Arcade has its 11th table pack out now for $5. Not sure how this one will sell. It has Dr Dude and Firepower. Both are 80's tables. But Dr Dude is 80's TO THE EXTREME!!!! It's got the 80's annoying color scheme, 80's goofy humor, and typical 80's dumb audio phrases. If you can hack that then there's a decent table here with a few fun gimmics.

Firepower is early 80's and is the more serious table. It has a few firsts including the first multiball. You really have to work for that multiball too as each ball lock is a separate shot. The table may not have much on it but it's fast and pretty fun. I can see this one being a challenge to master.

Not sure what's up next for tables but hopefully either Cactus Canyon or Champion Pub which are waiting in the wings. And I'm waiting on my tourney ball. Scraped by on the last night with a decent score on ST:NG and a good one on Gorgar to snag 172th place. I never want to play Gorgar again. So frustrating.

I picked this up yesterday.  I've always been a pinball fan, but never bothered with any of the video game versions because I didn't think they'd translate well.  Was blown away at how well done these tables were, and they brought back lots of great arcade memories.  I'm not terribly fond of the "old school" tables, and my favorite by far is the Medieval Madness table.

Yeah they do a great job with digitizing these tables.

I didn't like the old tables at first either but now I'm playing them more often for the challenge. I like both Big Shot and Genie quite a bit. Gorgar I burnt out on during the last Tournament but I can see liking that table if the iPad had actually bump control. I haven't played enough Black Hole or Black Knight to like or dislike them - other than I know I suck at them right now.

Best of the bunch for me are (in no particular order):

Bride of Pinbot
Tales of the Arabian Knights
Theatre of Magic
Scared Stiff
ST: NG
Attack from Mars
Genie
Big Shot

Circus Voltarie would be up there too but there's a nasty stuck camera bug they need to fix.

The tables I pretty much don't touch so much anymore are Ripley's, Harley, and Taxi. The others I'll usually play every once in awhile.

The company had a hint for next months tables and it sounds like Cactus Canyon is a shoe in, and either Shuttle or Central Park is the other likely table. Looking forward to Cactus Canyon as the Visual Pinball version is pretty fun.

Moved out of my comfort zone in my starting area in Italy and took a delivery to Switzerland. Much nicer scenery than I was seeing before. Ended up doing great until I got in to Zurich where for some reason I kept hitting the raised curbs. I ended up doing a bunch of damage to my tuck. I then had great stroke of luck with backing my trailer in to a real tight spot on the first attempt - couldn't believe it. Got an Excellent rating for the run but it cost about 3,000 Euros to fully repair my truck which was basically half the profit.

Feeling adventurous I took another run and decided to head from Zurich to somewhere in France. I was pumped and enjoying the pretty scenery when I realized I totally missed a turn! I headed a bit further down and the GPS picked an alternative road I could take. It worked out well since it was pretty scenic although not the highway. In fact at one point the road got pretty rural where for a stretch the center line wasn't painted for a stretch.

I was going alone fine, kinda spacing out listening to a classic rock station from Munich, when I realized I had just missed another turn! This time the GPS didn't auto-correct. It just kept showing that I needed to head in the opposite direction. So I had to guess where to go and took the first exit I could. It was a bad choice as it put me on a highway heading East. I was driving further away from where I needed to be. After driving quite awhile I started to get that anxious feeling you get when you get lost in real life. But nothing I could do so I just kept driving along. An exit eventually came up and thankfully it was one where I could switch over to the other side of the highway. The GPS became helpful once again and I was able to head back and make the delivery. But I was late and got docked some cash and experience.

Probably going to head back to Switzerland and keep in that area some before moving on. But yeah this game is really grabbing hold of me now. It basically Privateer or Elite on wheels without the story elements.

I just discovered the Scaling options. Pumped those up to 400% (I was running at 100%). Wow the game looks even more amazing - almost photorealstic in parts. Particularly things in the distance, like buildings, and the rear view mirrors are crystal clear. The game is playable on my rig at this but definitly cuts down on the smoothness which you notice when turning. But wow. I'll have to play with the other scaling modes but can see upping it to 400% for certain routes.

dang, never noticed that option there before.  Upped it to 400% and haven't noticed a hit; of course my first run with it up like that starts out in the middle of a rain storm.  once things clear up I should have a better idea of how well it works.

I can do 300% without any lag so keeping it at that. Doesn't look quite as crisp in some areas but still an improvement than what it was at before.

Finally dipped in and got a bank loan and got my first truck and did my first delivery. I was just doing the single runs before. So took awhile to figure out that I had to actually drive to the business location to get the job. So drove a long way to the location and then had to drive all the way back - at night by then. Still was able to make it and not have any damage and even backed up my trailer and unhitched it for extra experience.

Then I had to find a place to sleep. I couldn't figure out the GPS for keying in the nearest hotel so had to drive around till I found one. Is there a way to mark that location on the map? How about my garage? Not sure I can find it without setting the GPS.

Hoping they add some additonal realism to the game. Like hitting cars causes a delay, a cost and x number of accidents can mean additonal fines. Also wish the market was more fluid where jobs are not just waiting out there for you and can get gobbled up by competition. But really enjoying it so far for what it is.