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canyoneer posted:Someone just posted a 6 year old Stern machine on Craigslist for $260. That's either a typo, or it's going to be my first pin Probably spam. Lots cases where they say "The item is now gone but you too can get a pinball game this cheap if you go to [Auction website]"
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Or a zizzle. God, those things are such crap. The apron is literally made of cardboard.
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May 22, 2014 02:14
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roffels posted:Probably spam. Lots cases where they say "The item is now gone but you too can get a pinball game this cheap if you go to [Auction website]" Nailed it. I have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, and swindled. The guy who responded was named James Franco, and I'm never going to watch one of that dickhead's movies again!
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May 22, 2014 02:36
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canyoneer posted:Nailed it. I have been hoodwinked, bamboozled, and swindled. The guy who responded was named James Franco, and I'm never going to watch one of that dickhead's movies again! He's probably doing some more performance art.
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May 22, 2014 05:19
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Casnorf posted:Here's the playfield, with and without flash. The table looks to be in great shape! Great find!
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May 22, 2014 05:44
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Casnorf posted:Here's the playfield, with and without flash. Beautiful playfield to the point of pristine. As far as the lean, never underestimate the power of a well played matchbook. 
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May 22, 2014 05:59
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What are the screen regions for tap to nudge on Android Pinball Arcade? Is it just left, right, and an upwards nudge between the flippers? Edit: Never mind, I found the option to display them. a shiny rock fucked around with this message at 21:27 on May 25, 2014 |
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May 25, 2014 21:13
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This thread inspired me to go find the nearest pinball machines and give them a go. Thankfully there's a pair of them in a bar walking distance of my house. All this taught me though is drinking & pinball don't mix  I swear at this point I go to vegas more to visit the Pinball Museum there more than everything else. Ok not really but I do spent a lot the day in there until all the fun stuff opens up at night.
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May 25, 2014 22:00
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LethalGeek posted:This thread inspired me to go find the nearest pinball machines and give them a go. Thankfully there's a pair of them in a bar walking distance of my house. All this taught me though is drinking & pinball don't mix Yeah they do
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May 25, 2014 22:09
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Parallax Scroll posted:Yeah they do I'm very mediocre at it so booze just made me terrible. it was still fun though
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May 25, 2014 22:13
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Finally got around to rearranging the game room, and Hot Shot is in it's more permanent home in the corner, away from the evil, evil sunlight. Have it on furniture sliders so I can pull it back out when I decide I feel like tracking down the intermittent sticking on the player 4 ten thousands reel. The sliders sort of evened out the table, too, and my wife beat me when we played a test game. A shameful performance, no doubt. My next project is to figure out why the chimes aren't chiming. They're present, though I'm not sure what the assembly should look like and without lifting the playfield I can't see behind to see if they're just disconnected. Game is eerily quiet during play without them, so I'll have to get on this one soon.
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May 25, 2014 22:30
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Parallax Scroll posted:Yeah they do Alcohol actually makes me better at pinball, I don't know what that guy's talking about And that goes for real or virtual pinball.
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May 25, 2014 22:53
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King Vidiot posted:Alcohol actually makes me better at pinball, I don't know what that guy's talking about There's massively diminishing returns with drinking and pinball. one drink too many and you won't get any points. but when you're in that sweet spot . . .
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May 26, 2014 02:04
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Hmm. I think I left my blinds open at home. I do not return for 8 hours. The harsh light of the sun will scorch my machines, what have I done! Nooooooo.
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May 26, 2014 02:24
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insidius posted:The harsh light of the sun will scorch my machines, what have I done! Nooooooo. Well, either that or there's a painting of a worn-out old and faded playfield someplace and I hope to heck it's safe. Casnorf fucked around with this message at 03:10 on May 26, 2014 |
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May 26, 2014 03:07
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802.11weed posted:There's massively diminishing returns with drinking and pinball. one drink too many and you won't get any points. but when you're in that sweet spot . . .
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May 26, 2014 11:44
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So the Mustang table has a hilarious design flaw.
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May 26, 2014 12:17
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Casnorf posted:My next project is to figure out why the chimes aren't chiming. They're present, though I'm not sure what the assembly should look like and without lifting the playfield I can't see behind to see if they're just disconnected. Game is eerily quiet during play without them, so I'll have to get on this one soon. Why can't you lift the playfield?
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May 26, 2014 16:41
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Domus posted:Why can't you lift the playfield? I was just really tired from moving everything around and making excuses to myself why I wasn't going to investigate the chimes right away. Ha!
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Trip report photo dump. Just got home from being in San Francisco for four days and made my way out to Alameda on Friday to go to the Pacific Pinball Museum. Surely most Bay Area goons have been there, but a load of pics for anyone that hasn't. (Half rear end cell phone quality, of course.) Front room with more electromechanicals (Thanks, Gromit.) than you can shake a stick at. Including the original Gottlieb El Dorado that El Dorado City of Gold was based on. I glared at it and walked on by.  I was terribly sad to find that someone had defeated the Black Knight into total submission. Did quite like that Phantom of the Opera though. Never even seen it before the visit.  The first Gorgar I has seen since 1981 or so. That's a Flash on Gorgar's left. Just out of the picture on the right was a Funhouse. I tried to score 3 million points on the Genie backglass on the wall but did not get the final wizard goal at all.  I can now confirm that Orbitor1 isn't that fun drunk OR sober. Centaur on the other hand is awesome in real life.  A room packed with your Williams / Ballys favorites. First time I'd ever gotten to play Black Rose in real life. The cannon feature is pretty drat cool and TPA doesn't really do it justice. Can't see it in the corner of the first pic, but that's a Dr. Dude back there.   Does Rudy creep you out? Try Road Show.  Someone from Seattle represented. It's odd. The last couple times I've been back to Seattle after moving away Shorty's doesn't even seem to be the go to pinball place anymore. For years and years it was though.  Girlfriend rolled her eyes so drat hard as I took this picture. It's not like she didn't know she was dating a 12 year old. 
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May 26, 2014 20:01
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Four more. In one room they had a "Surf Champ" machine from 1976. In the room adjacent to that, a visible version of the same. Basically, as far as I could tell, someone too the guts to the table and built a more or less transparent body for it. Very cool to see and watch as someone was playing on it.     Overall, the place was pretty drat cool to visit. $15 to get in the door with all the machines set to free play. (Well, there's 5-6 of the latest Sterns in the entry that aren't free but they weren't what I came to see so I didn't care at all.) About the only downside is that I can't tell you how many times I'd come up to a table to find that someone had started a four player game, played a single ball and then walked away. Not the end of the world, but a bit annoying.
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May 26, 2014 20:09
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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:About the only downside is that I can't tell you how many times I'd come up to a table to find that someone had started a four player game, played a single ball and then walked away. Not the end of the world, but a bit annoying.
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May 26, 2014 20:47
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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:Front room with more electro magnetics than you can shake a stick at. I'm no expert, but isn't the term "electromechanical"?
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Gromit posted:I'm no expert, but isn't the term "electromechanical"? You know, you're entirely right. And I feel bad for completely forgetting the trick that Collateral Damage mentions above. Would have save a load of time that I spent launching balls and draining them in order to start new games fresh.
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Collateral Damage posted:Pro tip: On most modern machines (unless disabled in settings) you can hold the start button in for 2-3 seconds and it will reset the game. Very handy when people walk away from unfinished games. The more you know! Thanks.
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Those are cool pictures, thank you for taking them and posting.
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What's between the BS Dracula and the Earthshaker? From the DMD it looks to be a Sega/Stern, but I can't say I've ever seen sideart like that before.
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Domus posted:What's between the BS Dracula and the Earthshaker? From the DMD it looks to be a Sega/Stern, but I can't say I've ever seen sideart like that before. Some Stern vegas/gambling themed table. Had a roulette wheel kind of toy in the back right of the playfield. Edit: High Roller Casino. http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=4502
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Went back to my local pinball place and found that my 3rd place 1.5B score on Theatre of Magic got bumped to #4  I can still feel good about that 1.5B because that was literally my first game I've ever played on that table (never even played on TPA). That particular table has one of the plexiglass overlays tightened down a little too hard by the rollover masks on the upper right. Send it down the wrong side and it gets wedged in there. I've tried to nudge it out gently probably a dozen times, and it's only worked once without tilting. I could probably do even better on that machine, but it's so frustrating to have a ball or two just wiped out every game. I also put up 90M in Spiderman, which was good enough for #3 on the table  I'm catching up to you, POO
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Casnorf posted:My next project is to figure out why the chimes aren't chiming. They're present, though I'm not sure what the assembly should look like and without lifting the playfield I can't see behind to see if they're just disconnected. Game is eerily quiet during play without them, so I'll have to get on this one soon. The assembly should look like this. One thing I'd look at is the beer seal on the bottom. They can melt and get real sticky. This causes the plunger to stick and not hit the chime. I'd take a look at all the parts and see if everything is in order too. If they look heavily worn, you can buy replacement kits for like $8 here. Might be easier in the long run.
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Great pics Beatnik! I've never heard of Phantom of the Opera pinball. How was it? Also what is the machine to the left of Roadshow?
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Well, looky here as should be a surprise to no one... The Addams Family table is occupied and being played in TYOOL 2014.   FEEL THE POWER! edit: Also where in the SoCal South Bay/LBC can I get a skritch to scratch my pinball itch? The pins around here are scarce! 
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May 27, 2014 06:28
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Robnoxious posted:edit: Also where in the SoCal South Bay/LBC can I get a skritch to scratch my pinball itch? The pins around here are scarce! http://pinside.com/pinball/map/where-to-play That map is very up to date for my area.
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Niwrad posted:Great pics Beatnik! I've never heard of Phantom of the Opera pinball. How was it? Also what is the machine to the left of Roadshow? We've got one at Pinballz (or had one) and it was alright. It has a weird mechanic involving the third ball and making a combo ramp shot to get a huge jackpot payoff. Also the jackpot sfx is one of my favorites. It's this hair-metal sounding dude belting in tremolo "JAAAACK-POOOOOT" for probably 4 seconds.
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Robnoxious posted:Well, looky here as should be a surprise to no one... The Addams Family table is occupied and being played in TYOOL 2014. It was more or less constantly occupied. As it should be. Around the time I left, someone that clearly knew what they were doing was on it and had an audience of 3 people watching. I didn't have time to stick around, so I'm not really sure how far along he was. Niwrad posted:I've never heard of Phantom of the Opera pinball. How was it? Also what is the machine to the left of Roadshow? I'd never seen it myself either. Only played a couple games, but it seemed fun enough. Girlfriend liked that she was able to start multiballs rather quick without any idea what she was doing. There's one on ebay where the owner says "However, the ruleset is limited and it's not a deep game." Not the greatest salesmanship. That picture left to right: Adams Family, Dracula, High Roller Casino, Earthshaker, Roadshow, Airborne, Cyclone, and Hurricane. Didn't take any pictures myself, but Airborne's playfield is a mess of habitrails.  Oh. And out of frame to the left of Adams Family...  The other side of the room, right to left: Revenge from Mars, Champion Pub, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Black Rose, a shut down Dr. Who, CSI (Surprisingly not bad for a theme I couldn't care less about.), the old Indiana Jones, Party Zone, and Dr. Dude. Der-Wreck posted:That Party-themed table is The Party Zone and features characters from Dr. Dude, Elvira & The Party Monsters, and Party Animal Yeah - Realized I could find it on their site and edited my post around the time you posted. Not a bad table I thought. Tony Phillips fucked around with this message at 19:21 on May 27, 2014 |
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That Party-themed table is The Party Zone and features characters from Dr. Dude, Elvira & The Party Monsters, and Party Animal
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Beatnik-Filmstar posted:Didn't take any pictures myself, but Airborne's playfield is a mess of habitrails. I really want to play that. 
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May 27, 2014 19:31
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Airborne is pretty fun, it has a nice flow. It's one of the better Capcom games.
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Airborne is really neat looking but the rules are kinda crummy. When it comes to Capcom games (that can generally be found) I'm a Pinball Magic fan. There used to be a Breakshot on location in Chicago, but they had to dump it since it kept breaking down.
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Yeah Pinball Magic is probably the best game Capcom made. Airborne has a nice playfield and really nice shots, but I agree the rules are pretty bad. Big Bang Bar is great fun too, but it's super rare.
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