Anyone here have a list of the games at expo?
I want to update my ratings.
Thanks!

Come to SFGE instead.

Maybe you were told that so you don't go. Del Boca vista style

You can't remember what you played but you are going to rate them?

This was my first expo and I've got to admit - I was expecting more. I would say that the Midwest Gaming Classic in April outside of MKE had way way way more pinball to free play. The highlight for me was playing the MM Remake with the new cool color displays. Good seeing Whysnow - even for a few seconds . Play on!

Per Mike Pacak:

4 Square, Aaron Spelling, AC/DC, Addams Family, Airport, Aladin's Castle, Attack from Mars, Bad Cats,Ball Park, Batman Forever, Big Daddy, Big Guns, Big House, Big Lebowski, Blast Off, Bow and Arrow, Buffy Vampire Slayer, Capt Fantastic, Card Wiz, Catacomb, Congo, Corvette, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Data East Star Trek, Derby Day, Dirty Harry, Disco Fever, Dr. Who, Dragon, Eight Ball Deluxe, El Dorado, Alvin G Football, F-14 Tomcat, Fast Draw, Fireball EM, Fireball II, Flash, Flight 2000, Flintstones, Full Throttle, Galaxy, Game of Thrones, Goin' Nuts, Gold Wings, Gorgar, Guns and Roses, Hercules, Hobbit, Hurricane, Indiana Jones, Johnny Mneumonic, Jolly Park Joust, Judge Dredd, Stern Kiss, Kugler Family Pinball, Le King, Lethal Weapon, Lexy Lightspeed - Escape from Earth, Lightning, Lost World, Machine Bride of Pinbot, Metallica, Miss World, Monte Carlo, Mr & Mrs Pac Man, Mustang, Nitro Ground Shaker, No Fear, Olympic Hockey, Operation Thunder, Orbiter 1, Outer Space, Party Zone, Pinbot, Popeye, Pythons Pinball Circus, Qbert, Ripley's Believe It or Not, Roller Coaster, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Safe Cracker, Scared Stiff, Shadow, Simpsons Pinball Party, Sinbad, Slug Fest, Solitaire, South Park, Space Station, Speak Easy, Star Light, Star Trek Star Trek - Mirror Universe, Star Trek Next Generation, Strange Science, Strikes & Spares, Game of Thrones Pro, Terminator, Totem, Transformers, Varcon, Vegas, Vern's World, Walking Dead, Warlock, Water World, Whirlwind, Whoa Nellie, Wizard of Oz, World Cup Soccer, World Poker Tour, Wrath Olympus, Wrestle Mania, Xmen.

What was the deal with the Demo Man in the Homebrew section? It looked like the movie was playing on the DMD but none of the rest of the game was powered on.

That was being used as a test for the full RGB LED DMD. If you noticed the movie was playing in color. Those were LED dots, not an LCD.

Damn. I completely forgot about those and never even got over there to place them. I guess there's a downside to being such a social butterfly ...

The highlight of Expo for me was all the super cool people. So good to meet and hang out with all of you. Burningman, Snurdley, Gryszzz and I hung together most of the weekend. Thanks to everyone that brought games, too. Some really cool stuff! Great to see rotordave, highdef, Aurich, NimblePin, fattrain, TecumsehPlissken, Pinfatale, Pdxmonkey, tamoore, Pugsley, Hwawonyu, pinaholic, LTG, vidgameseller, Mr68, trilogybeer, TheNoTrashCougar, AceJedi, metallik, and anyone else I failed to mention. Sad I did not get to meet Centerflank or Whysnow. Guess it'll have to be MGC or somewhere else to get those guys. Fantastic party Thursday for Heighway, as well as the incredible PBL party. Terry and the gang really did it up for us! A word to the wise: DON'T EVER ROOM WITH GRYSZZZ!!! Next time I'm bringing a shock collar for that unruly dog. Again, great time, great people! Cheers pinball brothers and sisters!
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You are best bae

TPF is March 18th-20th, although based on the last couple years there's bound to be something or other going on on the 17th.

There was a post on the TPF facebook recently that there are a half-dozen or so rooms left at the hotel and they are working on getting show rates at other hotels in the area. It's a conference center complex and there are five or more other hotels within a block or two of the convention hall. I recommend the Aloft.

It was a massive show last year, definitely player and collector focused. Tons of games and tons of people, the only reason the lines weren't bad was because there were so many friggin games.

All. Days.
Unlike Expo; the freeplay machines are required to be there until end of show on Sunday. I think that's 2pm.

Meteor and Silver Ball Mania showed up Friday night.

Who dunnit showed up Friday morning

March 18th -20th. If we weren't leaving for a big ole family vacation on the 24th, we'd have been flying down for our 3rd TPF.

https://aws.passkey.com/event/13845488/owner/62091/landing <- reservations

Nope. One ticket gets you all access. I don't think they intend to change that.

So glad I booked our room in June already. TPF is the best, even my teenager (17) son wants to spend the weekend with me there

Y'all need to come down South for Freeplay Florida one year .. or this year its a good show & lots of games! plus if any of you have family its in the Seaworld hotel area & all near I drive , Islands of adventure etc... etc.......

We can't go to TPF due to a vacation days later. Coincidently, We're leaving for our anniversary trip days after Freeplay Florida. Perhaps 2016 will be a Florida pinball travel year.

Expo was nice. Not as many games as last year, but mainly because last year, one person brought 40. Otherwise the free play area would have been just as sparse.

Got to talk to a lot of people from here, that I never met in person before.

Got to play Zitts Mirror universe, which was awesome. Love the nixies.
Got to play Nightmare before xmas. Those very early. Love the layout design.
Rules for TBL have dramatically become more advanced. Seems 10X's more is there than the last times i've played it.
GOT played smooth. We played the shit out of it. Rules seem more like a video game. Love that aspect of it. Art package is still shitty. Those big shield inserts look like ass. The whole game looks cheap. Like the econo (IM, RS, BBH) years. But gameplay was smooth. Still like Kiss better.
P3 kicks ass like always.
Pinball circus is coming along fantastic.

Bought 2 games at the show. normally I don't buy games at the show, but when they fall in your lap for cheap, you have to pull the trigger.

I would like to thank thekorn for bringing that ICB! I had no ideal how fun and frustrating one of them could be! I did manage to make it to hole 36 once.

The Ambulance performed when it needed to but left me semi stranded with one of the 2 batteries going south some time between Friday night and Saturday morning. Luckily I was parked near http://www.starship-fantasy.com and he had an RV that I was able to get a jump from.

Pinball Life was a blast again this year. Can't wait to do it again next year (with new batteries)!

Was fun playing games with everyone.

You'll love TPF Hilton!! One of the best run shows in the country, and just an awesomely amazing amount of top-notch games available for play.

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Rob Anthony
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I believe they've changed it up so that all finals wrap up Saturday night. The information should be on the website, or Ed posted about it around here somewhere about a month ago.

Robin will be at the next TPF, so that's yet another incentive to go.

Maybe when he walked by them they were on and working? You are implying people brought garbage to the show, which is not the case.

I don't remember 10 games being off and broken in that room at any one time.

Andrew

Burningman and the Portland Monkey made my weekend. Two of the coolest cats you'd ever wanna meet,...so hope ya did.
You guys are the best !

A's thread got locked before I could throw in my disclaimer on this pic I posted....
Anybody know this jerk ?
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Just to be crystal clear...I was referring to MYSELF...not Gary. He was extremely nice, welcoming, and even joked about our drinks. Super cool, and an honor to meet that man.
And Scott Danesi is the best button pusher I've ever met. He is truly a leader in his field.

There were some great machines from all eras (I won't even try to list them), but there were certainly more than 10 down when I was there on Sat... and probably equally as many that should have been.

Scott Danesi is awesome, Doug's shirt says so

I agree. I was there Saturday morning.

Anyone know how much that El Dorado sold for in the Free Play area? It was nice.

We talking free play room or vendor hall? Or both added together?

Andrew

I assumed the list originally referenced by whysnow was for all pins there.

Regardless, I'm thankful for everyone that brought machines, whether they made it the whole show or had issues. I know stuff happens.

I toyed with the thought of bringing like 200 dead pins to the event just to see what would happen. Sounds like a dick move to bring a non working game.

talk about low class, cheap, inconsiderate, etc. I feel bad for the folks helping out who had to help move in a machine that had no chance of being played. Maybe next year Andrew will do a 'working check' to insure games are fully functioning when brought in to prevent this kind of BS. We all understand machines break during play, but to bring one in that you know is not working to get in for free is just beyond scummy.

Was he wearing a pinball shirt and a VW baseball cap?

We did consider this... It's a problem for time, and seems like it may only come up with a few people. It's a weak move. Many of us work our asses off to put the show together, to have a great free play room. To bring a junker to get in is insulting to us.

You want to do better next year? Instead of bringing known not working games, volunteer to help with load in or load out. That gets you an arm band and I don't need to store your trash for the weekend...

Andrew

Sounds like a project hunters dream lol

I suspect there is some time that first day to get a few folks to make sure machines at least start up, can put a play in ball and that both flippers work (and that most of the lights light up, and maybe there is not major switch errors reported, for games that do that). Even if it can't be right during setup, if an hour or two in wed night the machine has been turned off, you can make note, assuming you know whose machine it is, and can at least ban them the next year, or know whose machines must be checked before begin given their wrist band in future years, and that would stop this BS. As we have both said, too many people work too hard, to have someone do this nonsense. If this is pissing me off, I can't image how you and the rest of the crew feel when you hear about crap like this.

Unfortunately, I missed the factory tour since my plane arrived later on Thursday. I now see many faces on pinside that I missed the whole time at Expo. It would've been great to meet you guys. Oh well, hopefully next year.

Otherwise, I had a great time. I saw many familiar faces, met some other new people, and somehow made it into the finals. I even had a match with Roger Sharpe! He's very gracious and is a very nice guy. I couldn't thank him enough for making at crucial lane shot back in 1976. Also met and took pics with Ritchie, Jared, and the two Melon Heads Dennis Nordman and Greg Freres, as well as meeting others at the autograph session.

The best part for me was seeing many of my Florida friends there for the first time. It's my 6th expo (96, 97, 02, 04, 07) and my main gripe was the lackluster game selection in the main hall. Too few games, and many were broken/slanted. It was disappointing to say the least. Nonetheless, it's the people that make expo awesome. It was a non-stop party that could've gone on for three more days. Hopefully I'll get to meet more of you pinsiders next year!

-Joel

This reminded me of one game in particular (I won't identify it because I appreciate that someone brought it and wouldn't want to offend them) that was a fully functional example of one of everyone's favorite games---it was substantially unplayable owing entirely to the position of the levelers (probably a 3-4 degree PF slope on game that's typically played at twice that incline). The funny thing is, I'm sure that is just how the owner prefers it.