I do, its the only place i have for one. Thank goodness the reason we couldnt get "the big couch" was not because of my pinball being there, the room was just too small regardless..whew. Im capped right there though...no other pins in the house. Luckly i have a remote location, my mom enjoys playing them so i have some storage there.
Quoted from yancy:Unsurprisingly, I live alone.
Not without the company of your babies! 
Quoted from Bischt:Three in mine. The living room is really the best place for pinball. It's where you and guests hang out, it's where you go for 5 minute intervals while cooking, etc. games get way more play there.
My kitchen\living\dining areas all one big open plan room with my pins in it, a lot of my pin play comes while I'm waiting for things to cook as I can still watch what I'm cook from where the pins are.
Quoted from yancy:I have ten pins (sometimes eleven) and a jukebox in my condo living room. One NIB in the master bedroom, and one fixer-upper on legs in the second bedroom. Unsurprisingly, I live alone.
I've got a 600ft^2 apartment that maxed out at 2 pins, two player Daytona USA, DDR machine, Silent Scope, Area 51, a MAME cocktail cab, 2 pachinkos, and a few redemption games. I don't really have rooms in my apartment, it's just an arcade maze.
Quoted from DefaultGen:I've got a 600ft^2 apartment that maxed out at 2 pins, two player Daytona USA, DDR machine, Silent Scope, Area 51, a MAME cocktail cab, 2 pachinkos, and a few redemption games. I don't really have rooms in my apartment, it's just an arcade maze.
You gotta post pictures of this
I live in Florida, so no basements, BUT I've got a Firepower in our "formal" living room, along with my MAME machine, a cocktail 60 in 1, a stand up Cruis'n USA, and after this Saturday, a Cyclone. Bonus points: I'm married!
I probably win for most crowded living space. The pins are inside a cube of sound dampening blankets because I'm extremely worried about being courteous to neighbors (they also have internal sound dampening mods). I work late and usually play games after midnight. I figured I might as well just make my apartment an arcade.
Quoted from DefaultGen:I probably win for most crowded living space.
Like you, I still have a recliner and a tv.
Quoted from DefaultGen:I've got a 600ft^2 apartment that maxed out at 2 pins, two player Daytona USA, DDR machine, Silent Scope, Area 51, a MAME cocktail cab, 2 pachinkos, and a few redemption games. I don't really have rooms in my apartment, it's just an arcade maze.
That is awesome. Did you ever have guests? If so, how did you explain things before hand?
I wish! Mine are in the garage. I'm too often making a mess working on them to store them anywhere else. If I was buying pins that were already shopped then I could probably put them in an interior room.
Quoted from PurpleTophat:The wife and I live in a pretty small condo, so we're perfectly happy with the pin in the living room for now. We currently have an offer on a house that will have a ton of space for pins!!! Keeping our fingers crossed that we get it!
Im in the same boat, minus the girlfriend. Got my first pin on order, METLE and its going to be front and center in the house!!! Cant wait.. And when i do get a GF, she better like or, or kick rocks. My house, my money, my rules!
Quoted from jayhawkai:That is awesome. Did you ever have guests? If so, how did you explain things before hand?
I'm 23 and live alone, my apartment is an arcade. There is no place to sit down really except Daytona, please keep this in mind.
Quoted from twizz63:I have six pins in my living room. I am obviously not married......If I was I wouldn't be able to afford six machines.
Or if you were married to Jodi Arias or Lorena Bobbit.
Quoted from DefaultGen:Pins in cube that makes me look like a crazy person.
Great pick up line: "Wanna see my cube?"
Quoted from DefaultGen:I probably win for most crowded living space. The pins are inside a cube of sound dampening blankets because I'm extremely worried about being courteous to neighbors (they also have internal sound dampening mods). I work late and usually play games after midnight. I figured I might as well just make my apartment an arcade.
Poor F'ing dog. He couldn't crap on the carpet if he wanted to.
I have 5 machines in our dining room and our dining room table,chairs and hutch on the backyard patio
Quoted from DefaultGen:I'm 23 and live alone, my apartment is an arcade. There is no place to sit down really except Daytona, please keep this in mind.
Classic! So awesome. You gotta share....ever drag girls back to that? Reaction?
Quoted from Ballsofsteel:I flee the flaw mostly. sometimes I need to cheech on some flaw to get a chooch out of the antler though boys! sometimes, my sinus 'pliance gets dickered up though, they say I need to not chooch so inhalents mang!
Need a translator for this.
Well I overdid the whole pinball thing so much I could not fit them all comfortably in my garage game room. So I ended up with three in my dining room and let me tell you it's no good for me. People would come over and look at me like I am crazy. Was a bachelor for last few years and did not set my home with the idea of impressing woman only how many big boy toys can I cram in here. Also have a mame arcade in dining room too, I am no longer single and have a fiancé who will not accept this. Despite always eating in my kitchens island with stools my family needs a dining room.
Lucky for me I have a site at my wheelhouse/ factory with room for 15 machines. So if they can't fit will consider moving them to my off site arcade but honestly I foresee me selling them off because really how many machines can one man play. Want her happy screw the pinball machines in the living room. Sad but true, and FGY and wh20 were the first to go to accomodate my plan and mople ect. Good luck!
Quoted from pinmanguy:bathroom......?
Yup. I had machines in every room. Ran out of space and the only place that I could put a pin was in the bathroom. A deal came up to buy a ToM and a CFTBL both in exceptional condition for a little over 3k for the pair. Things got moved around, and eventually out of desperation, one game ended up near the shower. It did not last long because I did not want moisture damage, but for a while I had machines everywhere. If I did not jump on that deal I would have kicked my own a**.
I moved to a smaller place in February, so I only have two pins set up in my living room now instead of five. I did manage to fit three in there for a while after taking the living room door off it's hinges and removing it, but this proved impractical.
I also have two pins set up in my main bedroom too....
Quoted from RobT:AFM in front of the family room
Fits right in with decor ! I like it a lot .
Quoted from RobKnapp:Got rid of china cabinet . And dinning room table. To fit in more pinball.
Good man. China cabinets have to be the most useless furniture on earth. Look at my dishes! Yeah, who gives a crap. Get back to me when there's some food on your precious china.
Quoted from RobKnapp:Got rid of china cabinet . And dinning room table. To fit in more pinball. If I was married do not think I would have gotten away with it.
Unless she loved the hobby I doubt it. Caught my fiancé playing pinball arcade who has never played a real machine (in Thailand at the moment)but she loves Totan, and her eyes light up when she has a good game. My guess I will be dining room table shopping soon. Just want her to be happy so I will scale down my addiction,I mean collection.
Quoted from Thor-NL:this is going to be in the livingroom for a while
Nice!
Quoted from dglover4569:Just curious... Does anyone keep games in the living room? The thought has crossed my mind, but I don't think I have the guts!!! Has anyone ever pulled it off?
Hey, I do have in my living room, and willing to relocate in my used office furniture
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