Chris, I love your videos. I bought a couple of DVDs from you in the past. Did you end up keeping your Transformers LE? I re-watched part 4 of your review and you gave it a slightly better impression after you got the game dialed in, but later made a comment on Clay's Avengers review saying how frustrating it was keeping it working and how you spent more time with the glass off than on (and I assume you're not a cheater! Ha).

I don't feel that any Stern is worth the asking price these days. Every time I play one either something really stupid happens like a weird ball hangup or software glitch, or a cheap plastic snaps or a cost-cutting mechanism breaks. It just gives me a bitter taste in my mouth. Once we were running an X-Men tournament at my local arcade. When it was my turn to play and I got multiball, for some ungodly reason the flippers went dead and it drained all of my balls from the lock. Then the next person locked a ball and after then the game actually "switched players" and said I was up, like he had drained. What the heck?! Later on I heard of people having to replay their games because the machine actually going into the test menu in the middle of the game. The TEST MENU! I couldn't believe what I was seeing. In the 20 something years I have been playing pinball I have never seen anything like this stuff on Bally/Williams games. Not even Data East or Sega! So after that "game" in the tournament I started playing Addams Family and almost broke my previous high score. I enjoyed the heck out of it and remembered how a timeless quality game should play, and how fun it is!

Isn't this what he was wanting to do with the "past pinball collection" footage?

Ouch. Why is he not playing lately?