When I was 5, all I wanted to be was my father. He was a tough old bird, but I miss the Sgt. Major greatly. 

 

2 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

You mean at "Tilt"? ?

Yes. I still don't understand the title.

27 minutes ago, PP1 said:

Yes. I still don't understand the title.

It's an arcade...and "tilt" is a reference to pinball games.

Pinball operates off of gravity's influence on the ball. So if you try to bump, push, or literally lift and tilt the whole game console (which would change the direction or rate of fall for the ball), the console has an internal tilt sensor in it that will lock up the controls on the game and end your turn...and there's a light that pops up informing you that you've put the game into tilt mode.

Here's a picture of an actual tilt sensor. It's a dangling metal plumb-bob connected to a ground wire inside of a pinball console. If the machine gets bumped or tilted or whatever, the plumb-bob will swing over and touch the metal ring around it and complete the electrical ground circuit, and that's what triggers the game to register a "tilt".

Fire fighter. 

4 hours ago, Colonels_Wear_Blue said:

Here's a picture of an actual tilt sensor. It's a dangling metal plumb-bob connected to a ground wire inside of a pinball console. If the machine gets bumped or tilted or whatever, the plumb-bob will swing over and touch the metal ring around it and complete the electrical ground circuit, and that's what triggers the game to register a "tilt".

Hmmm... I believe it was April of 1994 when the guy at the "Tilt" asked me to leave because of a situation such as this. 

I wanted to drive one of those big yellow, Tonka Truck looking, dump trucks on a construction site.