Quoted from ATLpb:The parking situation is indeed very poor and aggravating.
Everything about Atlanta is poor and aggravating. It shouldn’t take an hour for me to get 8 miles to the event from my house but,....Atlanta.
Quoted from ATLpb:The parking situation is indeed very poor and aggravating.
Everything about Atlanta is poor and aggravating. It shouldn’t take an hour for me to get 8 miles to the event from my house but,....Atlanta.
Awaiting @whysnow's tips and suggestions on how this show & tournament, as well as the the Northwest and Rocky Mountain shows could be improved.
Quoted from MrBally:Awaiting whysnow's tips and suggestions on how this show & tournament, as well as the the Northwest and Rocky Mountain shows could be improved
I would like to see more parts vendors if possible.
Quoted from codered9394:I would like to see more parts vendors if possible.
When there are three large shows the same weekend, the parts vendors have to choose only one or two shows....
I don't know if it would be worth it for a parts vendor to lug a bunch of stuff to sfge. There are so many gaming elements to the show that aren't parts related.
Quoted from plowpusher:Got one for the road trip home
Congrats. I've driven by Yutan on Route 92 many times as I used to go to David City for work. I missed seeing the "Home office of the David Letterman Show" signs at Wahoo for the last ten years or so......
Quoted from MT45:Anyone know the owner of the Whirlwind at the show? Game #216 and John was his first name.
Wondering if he has any interest in selling
swampfire and he ain’t selling. Best ww I’ve ever seen and it’s not even close. I’m not big on non-modern Stern, yet I always enjoy playing that ww that he fully restored!
Quoted from MT45:Anyone know the owner of the Whirlwind at the show? Game #216 and John was his first name.
Wondering if he has any interest in selling
Believe the last name was Schlab? That was a nice WW for sure. We enjoyed playing it.
Quoted from ATLpb:swampfire and he ain’t selling. Best ww I’ve ever seen and it’s not even close. I’m not big on non-modern Stern, yet I always enjoy playing that ww that he fully restored!
Thank you sir! That game was stunning!!
The Orin Day presentation was really good. He was generous with his time and did a great job answering questions.
Wrestling was better a couple years ago when they had it in the bigger room, but still fun regardless.
I'd like to have seen some hard top playfield examples.
Atlanta traffic sucks, but that hotel is freaking awesome for a convention. I think they do a pretty great job with it.
Quoted from ATLpb:The parking situation is indeed very poor and aggravating.
The problem is that the hotel let the vendors park their trucks and trailers at the hotel instead of giving them their own parking lot to load and unload.
Some trucks occupied 6 to 8 parking spots!
Second, the hotel did not provide shuttle service if you were forced to park elsewhere.
I've never seen it this bad.
That was my only real complaint overall, because the show was KICK ASS and made up for the poor parking.
Quoted from Magic_Mike:The problem is that the hotel let the vendors park their trucks and trailers at the hotel instead of giving them their own parking lot to load and unload.
Some trucks occupied 6 to 8 parking spots!
Second, the hotel did not provide shuttle service if you were forced to park elsewhere.
I've never seen it this bad.
That was my only real complaint overall, because the show was KICK ASS and made up for the poor parking.
The galleria next door had lots of parking. $5.
Quoted from kermit24:More
The galleria next door had lots of parking. $5.
What part of the Galleria? That's a good 10 minute trek back to the convention center.
Not to mention, the security at the Galleria is a joke.
That might have been ideal for people who just came for a few hours of fun.
However, not so practical for people staying at the hotel who can't access their car.
Those who had trouble parking this weekend can give me their keys next year and I will park their car for them.
On a more positive note, mad crazy props to Marco and his insane pyramid section of all of the new stuff....and loads of it!!!
Quoted from Magic_Mike:However, not so practical for people staying at the hotel who can't access their car.
If you are staying at the hotel, why not use the valet service? It's pretty convenient.
Quoted from Magic_Mike:Not to mention, the security at the Galleria is a joke.
Went to the Chinese place our first evening there and 1 of the custodians was dropping f bombs and acting kinda nuts. Apparently, he wasn't very happy with his coworker. That was a bit alarming, but judging from the foot traffic in that place, he's probably not used to being around actual customers.
Show was a blast and well run. We are just being nitpicky about parking that’s likely to be an issue just about anywhere when the nature of the event involves dozens of large vehicles and trailers. This is what we signed up for
Despite record attendance you never had to wait more than 2-3 people to play newest sterns and basically never had to wait more than 4-5 for the other limited qty new titles like ACNC, Houdini, etc.
Good times.
PS
If the owner of the TFLE decepticons is reading this, pls PM me.
My rule of thumb is that I try to keep a game for at least as long as it took to restore it, so WW will probably be in my collection for at least another 4 years. I still need to redo or replace the coin door, and figure out why the spinning discs aren't spinning freely. I'm glad everyone enjoyed playing it. I cleared the audits so I'll check the # of plays when I get back to ATL.
Quoted from Magic_Mike:What part of the Galleria? That's a good 10 minute trek back to the convention center.
Not to mention, the security at the Galleria is a joke.
That might have been ideal for people who just came for a few hours of fun.
However, not so practical for people staying at the hotel who can't access their car.
The galleria is literally attached to the hotel.
Garage circled in red
CFBECC2D-8427-436B-B952-2CCF35E76788 (resized).jpegHeard if you were staying at the hotel and there were no spots you could valet and they would take it off your bill if you told the front desk. Just for future reference.
The Braves being across the way made parking a little more restricted than in the past. Like the $5 lot used to be free. And yes there wasn’t a Braves game this past weekend. Thank goodness.
Quoted from pinnyheadhead:Heard if you were staying at the hotel and there were no spots you could valet and they would take it off your bill...
The hotel was definitely hush-hush about that.
People complained to both the front desk AND the valet.
Good for people staying at the hotel next year to know, unless they make some changes.
Quoted from thepinballworks:karate tournament and a train show in the galleria on Saturday.
Yes this. Every time I saw one of the “Karate Kids” I was reminded of Kramer on Seinfeld in his dojo with the 9 year olds. His “Kattra” (sp?)...
Imo the best maiden, as it strongly resembles the pf and toys, the premium, now home in my workshop/gameroom!
51F9DC96-BC95-4B17-8EDF-574ED3B667D9.jpegD961E2D5-D627-4176-9DD2-D8BF8DA6B1F8.jpegGrats on the maiden!! At first, my wife and I couldn't decide if the karate people were cosplay or there for a tournament.
Had a blast. My GB Pro was played about 650 times at the show. Figured it would have been way more, but it never had an issue. Unfortunately, a Batman and an AC/DC Luci both had their playfields up a couple times in the Marco area.
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:At first, my wife and I couldn't decide if the karate people were cosplay or there for a tournament.
Ha Ha & I was wondering if they were going to be part of the wrestling show
Pic (not a good one...) of Marco's booth with my Maiden Pro at far left, and a close up. I haven't been to any of the bigger shows out of state to compare it to, but I've enjoyed SFGE the last few years. Love it! I'm sure a ton of work goes into setting a show like this up.
Threw a shaker kit in IMDN as soon as I got home, loving it so far.
20180609_145712 (resized).jpg20180610_135740 (resized).jpgQuoted from cody_chunn:Pitchers! Wanna see more pitchers!
here are some of the best pitchers from atlanta
pitchers04 (resized).jpgQuoted from greenhornet:here are some of the best pitchers from atlanta
Naw, man, thems is ball chuckers.
I want to thank the SFGE organizers. My first trip (am local). Family had a blast (my 7-year old tuned me up at Safecracker, so she wants me to buy one).
Ignoring my earlier comment about hotel, the convention itself was great! Lots of games, lots of cool stuff (vintage consoles were amazing).
We will be back next year.
Thanks!
Quoted from cody_chunn:Pitchers! Wanna see more pitchers!
Quoted from cody_chunn:Naw, man, thems is ball chuckers.
alright, more pitchers from altanta.
pitchers09 (resized).jpgQuoted from PinKopf:Pic (not a good one...) of Marco's booth with my Maiden Pro at far left, and a close up. I haven't been to any of the bigger shows out of state to compare it to, but I've enjoyed SFGE the last few years. Love it! I'm sure a ton of work goes into setting a show like this up.
Threw a shaker kit in IMDN as soon as I got home, loving it so far.
Nice. I'm sure I played that one at some point. Love Iron Maiden, but had to have a ghostbusters. I put a shaker in mine, but have it disabled until I get my reinforced leg plates in, just in case.
great show as always. My kid who is almost 4 loved it and played all day Saturday and Sunday. We parked at the galleria for 5$ no problem walking through the mall to the show and back to our car. Would free have been better? Sure. But not unexpected when a large convention happens.
Quoted from cody_chunn:I don't remember what I said to make him chew me up, but apparently he's forgiven me for it, and I'm very happy that I don't have to avoid him at shows any more.
I made sure not to tell him that I didn't like Star Wars.
Steve did a Jello shot with my friends, and I had already finished and wandered off, so no pics... GRRRRR!!!
Here are some random shots of the tournament and the free play games.
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The organizers and volunteers of SFGE continue to amaze at how they put together such a great show and still feels like a big extended family amongst the game bringers... Looking forward to 2019!
So, my daughter.. being of the age of phone-starers - really into youtube. My wife, not really wanting my daughter to have a youtube presence right now. We found a middle ground and had some fun along the way..
T-Rex Gamer @ SFGE:
I limited editing time to 1 hour and only those things that can be done in iMovie on the iPad versus Final Cut on my work machine, so umm... not a James Cameron production, lol.
After we packed up the games trailer heading up from the Gulf Coast area and were packing the SUV, I threw in the T-Rex costume as a last minute thought. My little girl had a blast and we made some fun memories. Hopefully we didn't annoy too many people.
Quoted from visi0n:Hopefully we didn't annoy too many people.
I thought the t-rex was fantastic and hope you guys do something next year too.
Quoted from Wolfmarsh:I thought the t-rex was fantastic and hope you guys do something next year too.
Quoted from visi0n:I think there were at least two more dino's around, I noticed while sitting at the bar. We definitely will figure something out. I've always appreciated the hand-built SFGE Pac-man, maybe we need ghosts!
Hah, funny about the multiple dinos. I guess I only saw one at a time!
Here are my audits from the show. Looks like LOTR had a ball trap.
WW - 735 plays, 1.76” per play, 2112 balls, 21.6 hours of play
Congo - 535 plays, 2.97” per play, 1637 balls, 7 tilts, 23 hours of play
GOTLE - 518 plays, 2.92” per play, 1525 balls, 2 tilts, 22 ball searches
POTC - 516 plays, 2.88” per play, 1524 balls, 56 ball searches, 5 tilts
LOTR - 360 plays, 4.0” per play, 1053 balls played, 550 ball searches, 6 tilts
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