Sounds like there are enough here we need to officially start an Pinball OCD anonymous chapter. 
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Denver, CO
Quoted from Lermods:You’ll never see a credit dot on one of my games…
I only see Medieval in your collection as a game with credit dots....
I have a whitewater on location and every time I see it it has a dot, for bigfoots cave.
Nobody ever hits it, so you get the dot, switch works fine.
Quoted from alexanr1:Sounds like there are enough here we need to officially start an Pinball OCD anonymous chapter.
That's just Pinside as a whole 
Quoted from DNO:, for bigfoots cave...
ALWAYS
Quoted from Lermods:You’ll never see a credit dot on one of my games…love to fix them when they do have issues.
That's even worse than just a regular ol' issue like a burnt bulb. The game *knows* there's a problem and lights up one niggly little dot telling you "hey dummy, look! FIX me, you lackadaisical bum!"
Nowra
Quoted from marioparty34:I noticed a slightly dirty white rubber post when I was playing today. I tried my best to ignore it, but I just couldn't.
Needless to say, I didn't finish the game.
A man of your skill level should have been able to finish the game one handed whilst replacing that dirty white rubber with a translucent Titan......omg who uses rubber now anyway 
seriously mate 
Nah. Started in this hobby over 30 years ago, all u could get were non working somewhat cannablized games from operator pole barns. No internet or 3d printers. It sometimes took years to get a game to .
I have searched for some game specific parts for literal decades Burned bulbs can wait till I get to them.
Wiener Neustadt
I'm depressed right now since two games each have a switch that isn't working and is rendering them rather unplayable. That's never happened before. And never mind the fact that I have 9 others I could play while I wait for parts...I'm still bummed. So I don't think the OP is the only freak here at all.
Quoted from schudel5:Yep. The very reason I don't play any games an hour before bedtime. I'll either be up too late fixing or won't be able to fall asleep thinking about owning a game with an unresponsive switch, etc.
I put a sticky note on the machine with notes on minor things that don't work. If a light goes out, I will continue to play, but make a note of it for when I work on the machine again. As things get fixed, I just mark those things off the list on the machine. If something major happens that makes the machine play differently, I will likely stop and address that, if I have the parts to fix it.
Quoted from Methos:It doesn't bother me unless it impacts game play. Meditation and yoga are great ways to cure OCD.
That and family members getting cancer.
Turned a little dark all of a sudden…… 
Quoted from Dent00:I put a sticky note on the machine with notes on minor things that don't work. If a light goes out, I will continue to play, but make a note of it for when I work on the machine again. As things get fixed, I just mark those things off the list on the machine. If something major happens that makes the machine play differently, I will likely stop and address that, if I have the parts to fix it.
I have 10 pins and don’t need a sticky note because I can’t get it out of my head when something is wrong with any machine
Quoted from alexanr1:Turned a little dark all of a sudden……
Didn't mean to be a downer. What does get to me is when I have a series of games that aren't working...usually projects that pile up. That mentally gets very frustrating. But of the games I have up and running, only about 75% of them are fully up. The others, as long as it doesn't get to game play, I just go with the flow.
Quoted from alexanr1:Last night I turned on my TZ and notices that one of the lights were out on the door in middle of the playfield. I couldn’t play the game and had to immediately replace the burnt out bulb. I have some serious OCD when it come to not everything working on my pins. Here are a few more examples…
Over the past 2 months I have:
- completely rebuilt the reels on my Whodunnit because they were not perfectly in sync with the game
- intermittent head issues with the DJ on my PartyZone, I fixed
- TheShadow had a target bent causing it to ricochet up and out of play down the left side drain.
I have also had Funhouse - Rudy eyelid issues, TZ - clock malfunctions, TS - Battlefield malfunctions, etc….
I can’t seem to ignore them and almost immediately have to diagnose and fix them.
My wife and I played in a pin museum in Del Ray, Florida, and she said “I don’t like playing some of these games, they aren’t 100% fully functional like ours at home”
Am I alone, or do others have to keep their pin’s 100% working all of the time!
I must have every switch operating properly.
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