Skeeball - Like / Dislike?

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Skeeball... growing up... did you dig skeeball or not? I always really disliked skeeball. Even as a kid I really didn't play it much because I didn't like it. When i did play it, oftentimes I'd just cheat for the tickets.

Where do you stand on Skeeball? Fun game? Not so fun?
 
Skeeball... growing up... did you dig skeeball or not? I always really disliked skeeball. Even as a kid I really didn't play it much because I didn't like it. When i did play it, oftentimes I'd just cheat for the tickets.

Where do you stand on Skeeball? Fun game? Not so fun?

fun game imo.....just takes up too much space is why i do not have one........
 
Skeeball... growing up... did you dig skeeball or not? I always really disliked skeeball. Even as a kid I really didn't play it much because I didn't like it. When i did play it, oftentimes I'd just cheat for the tickets.

Where do you stand on Skeeball? Fun game? Not so fun?

Love it. I am actually pretty good at it. What's funny, is that now you have redemption arcades everywhere, skee ball has morphed into a redemption game as well. Kinda cool to see the old boy get retrofitted to work in today's arcades. You don't see that happening with pinballs or 80's classic arcade machines. The sucky part is that though skee ball requires the most 'skill' out of all the mainly chance based redemption games, you get the fewest tickets no matter how awesome you are.
 
Skeeball... growing up... did you dig skeeball or not? I always really disliked skeeball. Even as a kid I really didn't play it much because I didn't like it. When i did play it, oftentimes I'd just cheat for the tickets.

Where do you stand on Skeeball? Fun game? Not so fun?

It was awesome! Always wanted to hit that magical perfect 450 point game...never got close.
 
Love it. I am actually pretty good at it. What's funny, is that now you have redemption arcades everywhere, skee ball has morphed into a redemption game as well. Kinda cool to see the old boy get retrofitted to work in today's arcades. You don't see that happening with pinballs or 80's classic arcade machines. The sucky part is that though skee ball requires the most 'skill' out of all the mainly chance based redemption games, you get the fewest tickets no matter how awesome you are.

Not entirely true about pins... go to Chuck E Cheeze... they seem to always have one pin... and that one pin always seems to have a ticket dispenser hooked up to it.

The local CEC has a No Good Golfers (if I remember right) hooked up with a ticket dispensing machine.
 
Definitely a fun game. It is fun to get a couple people and compete.

Agree on the space issue. My solution was to give one to my Sister and her family as a gift. Now I can play it whenever I like and do not have to give up the space.
 
I loves me some skee ball. Some day I'll have space for one... I hope.
 
Seems I am in the minority. I've probably put less than $5.00 in to Skeeball my entire life.
 
Not entirely true about pins... go to Chuck E Cheeze... they seem to always have one pin... and that one pin always seems to have a ticket dispenser hooked up to it.

The local CEC has a No Good Golfers (if I remember right) hooked up with a ticket dispensing machine.

Cool, I did not know that.
 
probably one of the more fun redemption games but it's still a just a redemption game. I may have had fun when I was younger but everything like that save the basketball shooting games aren't that interesting to me anymore.
 
Loved it back in the day and love it now. It was cool to see about 20 of them side by side at CEC.

I have an ICE Ball in my garage. My kids play it all the time and it is a huge hit with their friends when they come over.

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Skeeball

I love skeeball and hope to have the room for it one day. The head of Jersey Jack pinball was on a podcast recently talking about his kids being in a skeeball league in Brooklyn and his wife competing in their tournament.

Never heard of a pinball machine that gives tickets. I think it would make the kids look to the pinball more often. Of the three Chuck E Cheese locations close by, all have a pinball and none of them give tickets.
 
I loved it back in the day when I was a kid. Not so much now.

Even if I had the room for it, I'd never put one in, takes up too much valuable real estate :D

Kind of the same with foosball for me. I loved it a s a kid, always thought I'd have a table, but again takes up too much room and just not as much fun anymore.
 
Skeeball

Pros, Everyone know how to play skeeball, Little kids always seem to love playing it. Built a crappy one out of junk ply wood and cardboard for his kids party. They had clowns and a jumpy castle and an atari 2600 (when it was a NEW thing to have LOL) with games for the kids. They all hovered around the crappy hand made skeeball.. His wife wasn't impressed Laughs. Amazing what you can do with Old plywood duct tape and cardboard LOL
 
Here is a photo of one unit... but the one at the local CEC is built in to the cab rather than hanging off the side...

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Kind of the same with foosball for me.

Foosball for me is completely different. While I used to love it in college, I'd never own one as I wouldn't have much use for it these days since you need a 2nd person around your own skill level for it to really be fun. If you own one, no one wants to play you because, generally, you're way better than them and they don't have fun.

Skeeball you can still enjoy single player, and when others come over, they already know how to play it.
 
Cool, I did not know that.

Don't get too excited. The "pin" at CEC...if they even have one...is always thrashed. And yes, it gives out tickets, but you basically have to get Grand Champion high score and gives you 5 tickets. At the CECs around here, there is a Pirates of the Carribean in West St. Paul that is literally falling apart. A Roller Coaster Tycoon at another that doesn't work and a Revenge From Mars that is playable on it's best day out in Edina.
 
Don't get too excited. The "pin" at CEC...if they even have one...is always thrashed. And yes, it gives out tickets, but you basically have to get Grand Champion high score and gives you 5 tickets. At the CECs around here, there is a Pirates of the Carribean in West St. Paul that is literally falling apart. A Roller Coaster Tycoon at another that doesn't work and a Revenge From Mars that is playable on it's best day out in Edina.

Yeah, they don't take care of their pins for sure. The one pin the local CEC had a few years back (when I last went) was pretty trashed. One flipper only half-flipped...
 
Skeeballs are fun to play - until my back starts hurting from bending over to get the balls - but I hate maintaining them for clients who have them on location just because they can't figure out how to adjust a switch and don't want to pay for a opto upgrade...
 
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