So played some pinball lately?

Steelhorse

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The family and I went out Friday to have dinner and the we planned on going to play some pinball and arcade games at the local "Golfland" mini-golf place. SURPRISINGLY ALL FLIPPER's WORKED STRONG on game play, that dont happen much with pin's on location/route, anyway the pinball machine line-up was---

1. Attack from mars
2. Spiderman
3. Theatre of Magic
4. Roller coaster tycoon
5. Medevil Madness
6. Monopoly
7. Revenge from mars- pinball 2000-----"was not impressed with machine"!!

Wife played MM and said it's missing something, and that something was another flipper for skill shots and ramp shots, MM dont have this. My son enjoyed Roller coaster tycoon, and some of the latest light gun arcade games recently out, I swear the screens for these arcade games are increasingly bigger. I found myself playing Spiderman literately 1 hour as I kept. getting free games and I had smile ear to ear with the fun ramp shots. I liked the "OCK" dock magnet thing, that was cool,.seemed easy at times but never lost the fun factor, and shit I'am not really a Spiderman fan! I'am pinball fan first if it's fun I'am playing. I enjoyed Attack from Mars and Theatre of magic as well, did not play monopoly or roller coaster tycoon, but did play MM for the theme and I thought the same thing my wife said about another flipper for ramp shots, pf seemed dark and appeared all bulbs were on too, needless to say I played 2 games and felt nothing for the game, nice theme but not fun. So I went always back to spiderman. My daughter who's 1 years old, well she just loved it all the flashing lights, games everywhere, and the pinball her favorite as she likes watching us play at home on HS. We love pinball!!!!!!!!!!! Merry Christmas to you Klov'ers!!!!
 
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That is an absolutely incredible line-up of machines to have access. I've only been able to play 1 TOM in the wild and that was 11 years ago in Tampa. MM and RCT only when we have the annual shows up here in the NEast.
 
That is an absolutely incredible line-up of machines to have access. I've only been able to play 1 TOM in the wild and that was 11 years ago in Tampa. MM and RCT only when we have the annual shows up here in the NEast.

i go quad riding at tower city,PA(which is now called rausch creek)There is a place near it called Knoebels amusement park,they have a theater of magic to play in the wild.i dont know what the other two games were but i know they had three nicely maintained pinball machines.
 
Played Monopoly at a friend's house during the weekend. Really nothing better than playing pinball and nice cold beer. :)
 
The place is literately the only place with a selection of pins to play. It's Golfland in Mesa, Az. The last time we were there most of the flippers were either weak or just not working, so I complained to the manager and he put me in contact with there game maintenance guy, and I explained that we drove 30 miles to play pinball, and your machines flippers dont work, and the machines PF's were dirty, and most bulbs are burnt. I gave him some suggestions on on-line supply stores like pbresource and pinballlife, and he said he would e-mail me. Well that was over 2 months ago and last week I got an e-mail and he said he rebuilt the flippers on all the games and put in bulbs and cleaned and waxed them. So we (family) planned on going to play some pinball. Some machines need a rubber kit on them but they all were real fun and fast and the flippers were strong on all machines. Someone posted on here awhile ago that this place got flooded and the lower level games got trashed when the water slides pump got clogged, well this was untrue, there never was any flood. We only own 1 pinball machine at home, but it's nice and get out play other machines sometimes. There's a warehouse in Chandler, Az. that you can go and play all the pin's for sale, the guys cool, just act interested in purchasing. Roxy's gameroom is what it's called.
 
Sounds like a good time and a great place to take the family. My wife could really care less about the pinball machines in our house. My son is to young at this point but I'm sure he'll play when he is older. SM is also a great pin, I got one recently and really enjoy it. I finally got the Grand Champion score this past weekend.
 
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