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Tina Fey's Pinball Past

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Finally, a semi-justifiable reason to write about Tina Fey on a video-game website!

Quick, where's the nearest Medieval Madness machine!
Quick, where's the nearest Medieval Madness machine!
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.
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Quick, where's the nearest Medieval Madness machine!
Quick, where's the nearest Medieval Madness machine!
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.
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Sweet, Tina Fey is awesome.

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Umm.. there is nothing creepy about having a crush on Tina Fey.

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You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then.

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wow, cool, I like 30 Rock too, and that audio clip is just weird, but now Dan Forden is an easy link between Tina Fey and Mortal Kombat

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Pinball voices?  I wonder if she puts it on her resume.  I know I would!  

On the plus side, if you ever get to meet her, you have one awesome discussion starter!
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Whoo! A Tina Fey page! lol.

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Yup, a little creepy. I'd say her being married to a man with whom she has a daughter dilutes the illusion of attainability far more. And hell yea about 30 Rock!

Anyway, her geekiness is quite apparent, so this doesn't seem like much of a surprise; still interesting though.

EDIT: Changed wording to not sound so pedophiliac.

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I think Ryan wants to show Tina some pinballs,  if you catch my drift....

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Can't go wrong with Tina Fey.

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Yeah, Tina Fey's cool.

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Tina Fey. I want her.

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"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."

Time out there, Ryan. This is how you introduce Mortal Kombat's Dan "Toasty" Forden? I am surprised Jeff did not intervene to object. It's okay, though. I'm sure you both know who he is, so this time I will forgive you.
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Roger_Klotz said:
"I think Ryan wants to show Tina some pinballs,  if you catch my drift...."
I lol'd
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Only you Ryan....Only you...

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Jeff said:
"You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then."
... like Brian Adams?
... like Brian Adams?
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MasterSplinter said:
"Jeff said:
"You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then."
... like Brian Adams?
... like Brian Adams?
"
Oh, so I guess you do understand.
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Ryan said:
"She's smart, she's funny, she's self-deprecating, and she's got a bookish, accessible quality to her."
I think the word "accessible" has a great opportunity, henceforth, to be used in many trashy pick-up lines.  Awesome.
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Jeff said:
"MasterSplinter said:
"Jeff said:
"You don't understand the way Ryan crushes, then."
... like Brian Adams?
... like Brian Adams?
"
Oh, so I guess you do understand."
Hot. I hope Ryan develops a crush on me sometime.
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Are we talking pentagram-and-candles-crush, or stalk-and-murder-and-cut-face-off-and-wear-it-and-i'm-so-pretty-so-very-very-pretty-crush?

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Funniest show on TV?  For the past 3 years?  Clearly Ryan hasn't seen Xavier Renegade Angel.

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Who hasn't had a crush on Tina Fey? And I agree that SNL was much better before she left.

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She's like a classy well-rounded Sarah Silverman

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I would shrimp Tina Fey's toes like no other.

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tina fey was fcuking hot in Mean Girls hands down!

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Tina Fey is F'ing hot all the time. And, unfortunately so if Sarah Palin. But, since she doesn't pronounce her g's maybe it's Sarah Paling.

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30 Rock = Awesome. Tina Fey is one of my top 5 ladies I would murder for if given the order. Now to go set my TV to record 30 Rock.

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she is insanely funng on 30 ROCK.....and alex B. how much better can it get.....the funniest in 3 years, maybe not...im talking about 2 and a half men and big bang theory

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All pops and whistles at this end...

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The story about that scar is heinous. Who cuts up a five year old?

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Dude, that's really weird Ryan.  I mean, it's one thing to have a crush on a celeb.  It's another to plaster it all over the front page of the website that you run.

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There is definitely nothing wrong with Tina Fey.

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Ummm.... 30 Rock is funny, but this is just scary.

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Tina Fey will never read this. But i'm sure she felt a swift pain in her head the second a thousand E-Penis's hardened at her name.

Good luck Ryan! Nothing's impossible!

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Well, then.  That all was creepy as hell!  I'm going to go do normal things now.

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Yeah, she gave some respectability to that fake newscast again, sort of reminding me of Jane Curtain's character.

No shame in voicework, and you can hear she puts energy into it, selling it quite well.  :)

Yeah, and she's smart and pretty.

As long as you don't get a tattoo of her on your neck, I think you can call this a simple crush, Ryan :)

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I don't think Tina Fey is hot at all.And I've never seen 30 rock,but 3rd Rock from the Sun kicked ass!

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Yup, shes the hotness now!

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I love 30 Rock btw, that show is awesome.

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If only looking at her didn't remind me of Sarah Palin, I might be able to agree with the hotness assessment.

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30 rock is awesome, 

Tina Fey isn't hot, she isn't ugly either but . .. . 
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Ryan you have a little stalker in you I know it.

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lol.....

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Tina is hot, I agree. She is also very intelligent, funny and talented.  So, Ryan you are not alone and 30 Rock is a great show.  I would say it is the best show on the air right now.  

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Don't worry Ryan, I have a total crush on Fey too, 30 Rock gives me about 30 rocks in each viewing.

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Justified. 30 Rock is awesome and Tina Fey is amazing.

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Dude, I totally have a Medieval Madness machine in my home! My father is one hell of a collector of pinball machines, and MM is one of the best we have. It's totally just Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but basically the name-brand version.  Speaking from experience, it's both hilarious and awesome at the same time.

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I am one of those people too, Ryan. ;)

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We share the same taste in women Ryan, I definitely think she's hot too. The kind of hot that's not too skanky or in your face. I'll join the crush club.