Dawg Pawrk: pinball & more

After a few busy weeks and weekends with no real gaming, we set off on a 4th anniversary weekend in San Juan Capistrano.  Looking down from the hotel room balcony we saw half a sign for a brewing company, so we went over to check it out ... it was only about 200 feet from our room but it was an annoying busy winding drive through side streets to get there.

It was Dawg Pawrk Brewing Company, and at about 3pm on a friday it was a friendly place to chat with people and meet their dogs.  They had some pinball tables, which I normally just ignore.  I hadn't touched one of those in about 15 years.  But there was this one with a Led Zeppelin theme that made all kinds of classic sampled rock-n-roll sounds from Led Zep songs and had a fun multiball mode.  

I didn't know there were tables themed after classic rock bands, and there probably weren't the last time I looked.  But they had a table for Guns & Roses, and the Mandalorian table clearly can't be more than a year or two old.  Good to know companies are still making these.  Sure, they have more electronics and less physical bumpers, because all the mechanical bits are more likely to get stuck, but this one had a good balance of elements, and I got a good few minutes each time.



Aside from that, they had a good rack of nice clean games to play.  I like the weird bit about asking the beertender for crayons to play with.

Then outside they had a jumbo-sized Connect 4 game that was not being used.


Always good to see gaming out there where the public can have fun with it.


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