Tim Hunkin: Two Ton School Run (Arcade-Automat)

Sein neuester Automat für seine Atraktion auf der Southwold Pier ist wieder ein schönes Beispiel sarkastischen Humors und Zeitkritik , dessen Enstehung Tim Hunkin, wie immer, sorgfältig dokumentiert. Die Idee dazu lieferte ihm dies:   „The theme came from my weekly visits to my mum, who lives in a posh suburb of London with a school at the end of the road. The chaos at the end of the school day with so many badly parked huge cars and the tiny children in their mum’s enormous Chelsea Tractors (SUVs) often made me laugh. The cars are the parents’ battle tanks for protecting their children. In this respect they work well – a recent survey found that collisions between large heavy cars and small light ones resulted in the occupants of the small cars 12 times more likely to die. Though socially unjust, its also true that road deaths generally have fallen massively over the last 50 years so everyone is safer than the used to be.“

Herrlich auch das einleitende und das beendende Videogeschehen auf dem Monitor, ganz in dem anarchischen Stil von Monty Python ! Aber nun ein Spiel am Automaten: