Who loves pinball? (moved)

evil wasabi

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Bobak said:
I love that machine, played it a ton at Davis.

I just found out about a decent pinball place near my work, the local weekly mag resurrected the pinball category in their "Best of the Twin Cities" and the place that one is only 10 minutes away --they have Medieval Madness, Adam's Family, Ridley's Believe it or Not and about a dozen or so others.

Still, I owe the LV people a lot for introducing me to the unbridled awesomeness that is the Pinball Hall of Fame.

I was just in Vegas back in March and did now know about that... Looks like I'll have to go back.
 

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Wow, nice topic, whys it in the War Room?

For me it's harder and harder to find GOOD quality pinball tables to play. I have to go into friggen New Jersey to play GOOD tables. A few bars and places will have tables, but there always in disrepair and not even worth a quarter.

There's a good site for folks like me in the tri-state, NYCPinball.org if there's a place that has pinball, you can go in and edit the list and tell everybody of the tables the place has and how they are.

I found a bunch of cool places with them. 8 on The Break in New Jersey, of course, and this new place I found called Richie Knucklez. That place only had a few pinball machines, but one of them was BABY PAC-MAN so I just had to go and play it.

There's another place in North Jersey that's called Castle Video that I have to check out. It's a family owned video rental store, but the owner loves pinball and he's got 12 tables all in awesome condition. I hope the gas prices goes down so I can go there in the summer time.
 

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they are scarce here in holland. everything is scarce in holland. holland=scrooge.
i played a pinball machine earlier and in my opinion it was fun to play. i lost my mind when there was a digital mini game wich i didnt know. Man, that was awesome.
 

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DangerousK said:
I don't really get the fascination with pinball either. It's alright, but it pretty much is the same thing on every machine.

Funny story someone told me though involving pinball.

The guy used to work for the PBA Tour (bowling) for many years and he told this story about the first time he met this one bowler named Mike Limongello. He was a real degenerate gambler from NYC...the guy would be on anything he could...he was a real big action bowler during bowling's heyday in the 1960s. He was damn near unbeatable back then.

But the first time the guy met Mike Limongello was in June of '66 in Connecticut at a PBA Tour stop. Limongello was playing pinball for $100 a game. The only catch was that all you could do was pull the plunger to shoot the ball up and that was it. You couldn't touch the machine after that. I thought that was fucking insane to do.

This guy used to always have some big score in CT and NY. A lot of the older gentlemen at the social clubs still remember him. From what they said is that he would bowl in a league game,gamble all night, participate in more league matches, gamble some more and then depending on where he stood on the ladder he would either finally go home or back to playing cards. It's like the Bill Brasky skit on 'Saturday Night Live". The dude never slept yet killed at the tables or on the lanes.
 

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OMF2097 said:
This guy used to always have some big score in CT and NY. A lot of the older gentlemen at the social clubs still remember him. From what they said is that he would bowl in a league game,gamble all night, participate in more league matches, gamble some more and then depending on where he stood on the ladder he would either finally go home or back to playing cards. It's like the Bill Brasky skit on 'Saturday Night Live". The dude never slept yet killed at the tables or on the lanes.

Holy shit...I thought the odds of anyone else knowing about Limongello was slim and none on these boards. :)

Do you bowl at all?

I know you live in NJ, which I do as well.
 

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I love Pinball though I never was, deep into it....I generally suck at it.

I got more into it when my dad got a few machines and a machine myself.

...I don'r really enjoy playing pinball games on consoles though,it's just not the same for me.
 

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YuckMud said:
Wow, nice topic, whys it in the War Room?

For me it's harder and harder to find GOOD quality pinball tables to play. I have to go into friggen New Jersey to play GOOD tables. A few bars and places will have tables, but there always in disrepair and not even worth a quarter.

There's a good site for folks like me in the tri-state, NYCPinball.org if there's a place that has pinball, you can go in and edit the list and tell everybody of the tables the place has and how they are.

I found a bunch of cool places with them. 8 on The Break in New Jersey, of course, and this new place I found called Richie Knucklez. That place only had a few pinball machines, but one of them was BABY PAC-MAN so I just had to go and play it.

There's another place in North Jersey that's called Castle Video that I have to check out. It's a family owned video rental store, but the owner loves pinball and he's got 12 tables all in awesome condition. I hope the gas prices goes down so I can go there in the summer time.

I've noticed this... it seems like the Jersey Shore has like the monopoly on good pinball tables or something like that. My sechs fell out when I saw Twilight Zone at one of the arcades, it was like, meeting your ex-girlfriend again after years of separation, only to find out that your desire for her still burns strongly in your loins. I would have loved to rescue that pin from that arcade, 'cos it was obvious they haven't been putting in the upkeep for that pin.... the left flipper needed some serious Viagra.
 

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chris1 said:
...I don'r really enjoy playing pinball games on consoles though,it's just not the same for me.
Not even Devil's Crush? It's the Cadillac of video pinball. Video pinball is okay once in a while, when the game is really good like that (I don't know if that's occurred since the 16-bit days, personally). There are things you can do in video pinball you can't do in real pinball, like fight big bosses. It goes without saying that real pinball is superior, of course.
 

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me, my dad and a whole bunch ... pinball is fun especially when trying to break someone's record and shit talking ... :lolz:
 

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I played the same Twilight Zone machine when I was at Seaside Heights. It's long gone now, the arcade only had Pirates of the Caribbean left. The other place that had the bigger arcade went to almost all redemption games and the pinball machines they did have were all broken, but a Stern Playboy will FULL NUDITY!

Best place on the shore is still and always will be Flashbacks in the Carousel Arcade.

http://revver.com/video/747396/flashbacks-seaside-hights-new-jersey-tour/

I took that last year with my old camera, so sorry for the quality and for walking too fast. We're getting better with the videos now and we're going to do better quality stuff with me in the videos rather then just me walking around and talking.

And Castle Video DOES HAVE Twilight Zone. So when I go there this summer, it's going to be the first game I play.
 
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Can anyone explain how the Match point for free game system works on tables like Star Trek or Twilight Zone?

Seems like some type of random shit...

I could have my best games back in the day and not get a free-bee
I could have my worst game and get one.


Was really cool because people wouldn't realize that they got a free game.... And they would just walk away..... Then I'd scoop the fucker...
 

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Memories man, memories..god, I loved that thing back then.:annoyed:
 

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norton9478 said:
Can anyone explain how the Match point for free game system works on tables like Star Trek or Twilight Zone?

Seems like some type of random shit...

I could have my best games back in the day and not get a free-bee
I could have my worst game and get one.


Was really cool because people wouldn't realize that they got a free game.... And they would just walk away..... Then I'd scoop the fucker...

You're talking about the free game match after your credit ends right? I'm not sure. As far as I can tell, it's supposed to be random. It's pretty funny, I remember playing Twilight Zone, completing all bonus rounds, locking the ball for final Lost in the Zone bonus round, getting the requisite high score for a free credit, and then after all the balls drained at the end of the round, which is 45 seconds long, game ends, I got a match for another free game.

3 for the price of 1. That was one of the best moments in my life. Decades from now I'll be telling my grandchildren about this :emb:
 

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Wes said:
Well, isn't this a delightful surprise

For some reason, reading this post reminded me of that drama, something about acorn is a faggot's rough delite or summat, from years ago :spock:

It's like the word 'delightful' was a trigger for my sleeper memory.
 

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bokmeow said:
For some reason, reading this post reminded me of that drama, something about acorn is a faggot's rough delite or summat, from years ago :spock:

It's like the word 'delightful' was a trigger for my sleeper memory.

Heh, I'm totally not trying to be an ass when I say this, but ever since however long ago you admitted to shopping for bras at victorias secret, every time I see a post of yours that's all I can think about. Whether I read it or not, I'll see your handle and avatar and think to myself "hey, that's the dude that was shopping for bras."
 

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personally I'll always remember bokmeow as the dude who lapped up his own hand party
 

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Wes said:
Heh, I'm totally not trying to be an ass when I say this, but ever since however long ago you admitted to shopping for bras at victorias secret, every time I see a post of yours that's all I can think about. Whether I read it or not, I'll see your handle and avatar and think to myself "hey, that's the dude that was shopping for bras."

Ah, thanks much, I'm actually much flattered you remember that. :D

I in fact just came back from Victoria's Secret today. I had to satisfy my curiosity about this Dream Angels brassiere that they started selling. Supposedly it had some kind of memory cushion material in it, i.e. Tempur-Pedic stuff, but I came away with the feeling that it was more of a gimmick than anything else... the cushion was so goddamn thin, nothing like what I pictured it. Would it actually convey any boob comfort? Gonna have to read some reviews or ask some NG.com womens that have tried it on.

Oh, and all Victoria's Secret brassieres appear to be Made in China now. What a different 6 months make. I bought the wireless demi brassiere back in November. and back then, it was still made in some Middle East country like Jordan or Israel or summat. I checked more than 8 lines of VS's brassieres today --- all carried the tags "Made in China." What that means is I probably will no longer buy anything from VS, at least, nothing that carries "Made in China." Call me wrong-headed, but that [Made in China] brand has become synonymous with lax QA control, dubious safety measures, and destined to die after few uses.
 
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So, are you just a cross-dresser? Straight or gay? Are you wanting an operation? Do you dress up in public, or just your private life? I mean, I can't imagine somebody who takes such an interest in women's undergarments goes to the store just to check out the tags and feel them up. That'd just be kind of creepy..
 

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Wes said:
So, are you just a cross-dresser? Straight or gay? Are you wanting an operation? Do you dress up in public, or just your private life? I mean, I can't imagine somebody who takes such an interest in women's undergarments goes to the store just to check out the tags and feel them up. That'd just be kind of creepy..

This thread is quickly turning into "Who the fuck buys brassieres?" :emb:

I thought I had answered this question in that ancient thread, but now that I think about it, all I did was create the thread about having the VS credit card foisted on me right? There was an even older thread about buying brassieres I think, and in that thread I made it pretty clear that I was buying lingerie for my bird. That's pretty much it. I take an interest in all apparels, all fabric materials. Maybe if my academic career took a slightly different path, I think I would have been all right as a fashion designer. I'm not even sure if that's the right career description, "fashion designer," but I feel pretty comfortable shopping for any type of clothing.
 

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Doctor Shroom said:
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Memories man, memories..god, I loved that thing back then.:annoyed:

"To be, or not to be..."

"And Hamlet is taking out the trash!"

"Not to be."
 

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bokmeow said:
I think, and in that thread I made it pretty clear that I was buying lingerie for my bird.

A million Victoria Secret employees have heard that line before.

:p
 

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Every pinball machine is similar, but has different ways of testing you and loads of different things to do. Though, some are better at being fun than others. Some of the newest Stern machines aren't really all that great, which is sad since they have the finances to do it. Though, it is hard to compete with great machines of the past, like Black Knight, Sorceror, High Speed and others.

wasabi, the next time you are out in Vegas, get a hold of the folks out here. We'd definitely be down for some pinball with ya.

Also, here's the time I managed to piss off a segment of the IFPA.
 

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Doctor Shroom said:
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Memories man, memories..god, I loved that thing back then.:annoyed:

I have serious issues with these kinds of pinball field designs.... so many bonus lights and graphic elements with no clear organization, it makes your eyes dizzy. Not enough contrast.

This is a better pinball field design, from Twilight Zone, well organized, no needless distractions:

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Theater of Magic is kind of pushing it, but it keeps all the bonus modes in an organized parchment in the middle, and the lights close to the ramps and locks:

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lol, Theater of Magic was right next to the LAH Machine, that thing was pretty cool too "Shoot the magic trunk!":D
 
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