RIP StreakerWatch!

And just when I had a contribution: Over the weekend in Reno I made a point to play a penny slot machine called "Streakerama." It's one of those new "interactive" slot machines, in which the player is taken to a cartoon-video-game-screen for bonus points when they pull a particular combination of icons. In the streaker game the icons include harmless looking cartoon men wearing trench-coats, an orange, a palm tree (set in Florida?), and some other things. Unfortunately the machine took my whole dollar before I was able to get to the bonus video-game section, so I don't know what sort of streaker story is told to the players (and frankly these machines can't hold my interest longer than a novelty spin, so I was back to the blackjack table). What a strange theme, though-- most of the other machines revolve around more salient aspects of pop culture (Elvis or Austin Powers or striptease, eg)- maybe Bob's right to suggest that streaking culture never really went away- with a whole group of people that can relate to this slot machine, even. Wonder why the advertisers haven't exploited this demographic.