First time to Allentown for myself and the wife, we had a great time! Wait to get in? 45 minutes Saturday morning, we showed up an hour before open and scored a space right up front.

Brought a machine down, came home with another. Meet up with some other Pinsiders and picked up a system 80B display, 4 legs, 2 new ramps and a neon beer sign, everything went butter smooth.

Played more classic games than I can remember- Blackout, Dr. Who, Loop the Loop, Close Encounters of the third kind, Space Station, DE Star Wars, Stargate, Alien Star, Genie, Bad Cats, Dolly, Kiss, Fireball (which was DIALED IN, game was amazing) Stellar Wars, Genesis, Camelot home brew game, Eight Ball Deluxe. Went through vendors several times looking for parts, ended up grabbing a spare pf glass on general principle. All were happy to answer questions.

Kids? To be honest did not notice any till we were leaving around 3PM. Most people were courteous and did not hog a machine. Rare was it that we had to wait and in that case we simply moved to another game near by that we had not played yet.

My wife enjoyed herself immensely there and the farmers market next store and will be back for the next show. With a larger vehicle to bring more pins home
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Hey I had a tote bag, I had lots of parts to buy.

I did notice that to some degree; One reason for going was for some new parts and was surprised that I found NOTHING for what I was looking for. Which was unfortunate as I wanted to support vendors who came to the show! A vendor who shall remain nameless stated that I could "order an item through their website" but when I came home this was not true which surprised me.

Maybe they had it and maybe they did not, it was not listed on their website though.

In general the show was very good and in regards to new parts will lower my future expectations. Glass was $35 a sheet, can't beat that with a stick.

I saw it twice but it was rare so not worth mentioning IMHO. You are always going to have one or two rude people in any gathering and it wasn't enough to ruin the good time and great people there. We just moved onto another machine and came back later.

Actually observing both... in one case it was 2 women playing Bad Cats who didn't wish to give up the machine (they played game after game even with a number of people in line behind them) in another was an older gent who clearly was familiar with the game he was playing and had a running dialog going on with his buddy while playing.

Again, these people didn't ruin our experience. There will always be thoughtless people in a crowd. We simply moved on to other games and came back to both later. My wife is already looking at the calendar to see what else is on the horizon for shows.

Mine is plugged into a battery back up =)

Murphy is not your friend.

One toward the back with the seafood wheel not working time to time.

And we still had fun =)

This one, my wife liked it very much. I'm commanded to find one if possible.

We played 18 different games together while we were there Friday, some more than once if there was no line to get a good handle on the machine. Were making a list..

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Hey I drove 7 hours to see some gutter guard, imagine my disappointment!

Ha! Dude I could have so used that last week. I'm on a three story roof looking over the edge scooping tree crap out of plugged downspout. I'm not afraid of heights but have a healthy respect for gravity. Even with a harness its disconcerting lying face down looking over the edge of a roof with a hell of a pitch. God bless roofers.

It was a nice break from the main floor and I saw several things of interest.

Pity the 2 player version of Moon Shot (Astronaut) was sold! Sounds silly but they would have looked sweet side by side in our game room and its a very fun game.. The 2 player has different colors and backglass and the game rules are slightly different between the two.

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Thanks! It is a wickedly fun and fast game, make sure he has the high tap jumper set by the fuse panel.

That Astronaut looked like it was in remarkable shape!

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What day did you go? We found many machines open for play at a given time, so much so that we left early being all played out.

We were there from 9 on the spot till 4 Friday. My only complaint was I should have gone through the flea market sooner rather than later but that isn't a knock on the show but my own choice.

He almost ran me over in the parking lot while we were loading up a pin!

Todd is a funny guy, been to his place twice to pick up EM's (he hates them!) very gracious.