Esta não é aléia de bowling do seu grandpa, bucko! [Poweroutage]

A próxima vez que um parafuso do relâmpago bate o transformador fora de seu apartamento durante um jogo do bowling de Wii, você poderia sempre bater os tijolos e tentar sua mão na coisa real.  Se for bowling que de RL você é após, o venue o mais fresco é ao redor o restaurante de RedPin & o Lounge novos em Bricktown da baixa de cidade de Oklahoma, uma combinação do bowling do upscale do alimento contemporary, da bebida e de pistas contínuas do bordo-e-pinho.  Localizado ao longo do canal apenas ao oeste dos Cinemas 16 de Harkins (e downstairs), o RedPin ocupa 12.000 pés quadrados no assoalho à terra do edifício Centennial e boasts um restaurante posh que assente 175, um lounge com um alto de vidro recycled vermelho um--um-amável original da barra, e um quarto disponível do VIP (esse assenta 20) apenas fora da aléia da pista do RedPin 10.

The bowling experience at RedPin is about as high-tech as it comes, with bowler-specific automated bumpers, flat-screen HD monitors at the score keeping tables and the very cool option of personalizing the giant video screen at the end of your lane.  Each lane features a ‘mini-lounge’ where you can relax while critiquing your friend’s armswing (or lament your last baby split) and every lane has access to the RedPin’s restaurant-style dining service.  Rates are a user-friendly $4 per game from 11 am until 5 PM, then just $5.25 after that.  Bowlers can also rent lanes by-the-hour:  $45 before 5 PM and $55 thereafter.  Hourly rental includes bowling for up to six and shoes.  Speaking of shoes, rental is $2.50 if you’re not doing the hourly thing, and you’ll be setting your dots in kicks custom-made for the RedPin.

Now let’s talk about food.  In a sport that uses terms like turkey and Swiss cheese ball, you’d be excused for imagining that culinary interests are right up there with ball beveling and lane condition for the average bowler - and you’d be right.  At the RedPin, however, a chicken wing is much more than a style faux pax at the line and the food is about as far removed from standard bowling alley fare as - oh, I don’t know - Neptune is from the Sun! 

On my first visit to the restaurant, I had stone-baked pizza (is there really any other kind?), and it was the best I’ve had anywhere.  Mine was a Meat Your Match, which included a tantalizing combination of pepperoni, smoked bacon, grilled chicken, salami, seasoned beef and hot peppers.  There are five other flavor combinations (which I’ll be trying on my next five visits).  Besides pizza, diners in the restaurant can enjoy five different varieties of stuffed panini sticks, an imaginative collection of sandwiches, including RedPin Sliders (mini-burgers with center-cut smoked bacon and cheddar), Grilled Chicken Sliders (you guessed it:  grilled chicken with honey dijon and red onions - or a choice of other toppings and sauces), Grown Up Mac & Cheese (with Parmesan truffled fontina cream sauce, no less) - and more (and, yes, they do have chicken wings - I mean, Flying Elbows).  Several entree choices feature the RedPin’s special upgrades:  guests can order ‘Spares’ (which feeds 1-2 with the selected menu item) or ‘Strikes’ (which feeds 2-4).  All of the food at the RedPin can also be ordered on the Events Menu in party-sized trays designed to feed 20 people - and they’ll customize your order to specifically satisfy your group.

More food-related bowling terms:  sour apple, pumpkin, cheesy cakes and jam.  Sure all of these actually refer to bowling, but they make me think about dessert. At the RedPin, I wasn’t disappointed.  How about Red Velvet Cake with whipped cream cheese icing or Chocolate Lava Cake with a ‘molten’ chocolate center?  Of course, there’s also a traditional Cheesecake, a Four Berry Creme Brulee or even Sinkers and Suds:  fresh doughnuts from OKC’s famous Brown’s Bakery, served with coffee.

Coffee is, of course, for the serious bowler (like me), who doesn’t want the edge taken off his game.  For everyone else (at least everyone else over 21), the RedPin Lounge offers an astounding (really) array of beers (draft, foreign and domestic) as well as unique signature drinks and wines (red, white and sparkling - by the glass or by the bottle).

So the next time the power goes off or you forget to pay the electric bill, cruise down to Bricktown and check out the RedPin Restaurant and Bowling Lounge.  You can stay from 11 am until midnight Sunday through Wednesday and from 11 am until 2 p.m Thursday through Saturday.

10 PRINT (”Hello World”); [Vertical]

Welcome to the first issue of Playedtodeath, Oklahoma’s premier video gaming news venue.

We’re glad you picked us up and we know you’ll look forward to fresh newsprint every month, as well as daily industry and cultural updates on our interactive website.  Each month we’ll talk about the things that are important to gamers:  reviews of new games and gaming systems, features that focus on your unique lifestyle - including the cooler places to hang when you’re not leveling up - and straight talk about the products that you find interesting (your phone does what?)

To make sure we provide the very best in computer gaming news, we’ve assembled an international staff of writers who bring years of computer gaming experience to the keyboard.  Our people know the movers and shakers in the industry personally, and we don’t cut corners when it comes to bringing you the latest stories:  when Kaz Hirai keynotes the 2008 Tokyo Game Show, we’ll be in the audience mentally translating yen to dollars and wondering how many people can legally share a sleeping tube.  When a new energy drink is introduced in OKC, we’ll be there to guzzle a freshly-minted can and crush the empty against our foreheads (or better, our friend’s forehead).  When Nintendo or Sony or NCsoft rolls out a new release, our reviewers will literally play it to death, to give you the best info to use in deciding how to spend your gaming dollars - that’s our promise to you.

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In short, we’re going to make every effort to be that computer gaming newspaper that you always wished (at least since last Thursday) you could read while you were waiting for a Saturday night table in Bricktown.  

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