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Like so many comedy nerds, I've had a creepy crush on Tina Fey for a long time now. She was the head writer at SNL during one of my personal favorite eras of that show, she somehow managed to salvage Weekend Update from the charisma-free Colin Quinn while simultaneously preventing a giggly Jimmy Fallon from ruining it all over again, and I maintain that 30 Rock has been the funniest show on TV for the past three years running. She's smart, she's funny, she's self-deprecating, and she's got a bookish, accessible quality to her. Like I said, it's a creepy crush.

While I've had to suppress my elitist early-adopter knee-jerk reaction to her recent meteoric rise following her popular/divisive Sarah Palin impression (it dilutes the illusion of attainability,) it has certainly allowed further insight into her life. Turns out, she's got a weird bit of arcade trivia hidden in her past. Vanity Fair has a nice article for Fey obsessives, revealing how she got that mysterious scar on her chin, as well as teasing the fact that she provided some voices for an unnamed pinball game back when she was living in Chicago. Kotaku's Brian Crecente did some legwork and discovered that the game in question is Medieval Madness, a machine released in 1997 by Williams. Even sweeter, the folks at Pinball News have a clip from Pinball Expo 2004 where Medieval Madness sound designer Dan Forden plays a few takes of a mid-20s Tina Fey that didn't make it into the game. It's all a little too perfect, you know? Like she's a cyborg sent back in time for me to get weird about.