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Yep. 4 currently though one leaving soon. Putting my pins in the den is a temporary solution until I have my game room/theater addition completed. However, now after having the pins in the den I LOVE having them there (wife...not so much). It is great to be able to just play a couple of games but still be around the family.

In my new addition there is a loft above the home theater which my wife wants to put all the pins and MAME in. Ugh...stairs which I don't currently have to deal with and they will be up and out of the way. Nice for her but I'd rather have them more on display.

Oh well.

I have six in my formal dining room and living room right off the front door. Most people that walk into my house don't say anything about them, but have this strange look on their face like they have never seen a pinball machine before.

Recently we were at a party and one of my friends started talking about the six pins in our living room and this chick starts giving me crap about what kind of living room is that? So I said, let me guess, you have a sofa, a coffee table, maybe a couple of lamps, right, yea I thought so. Never saw her the rest of the night. Once had a pizza delivery guy's jaw drop when he spotted them,
asked him if he plays, he left about an hour later.

A living room is for living right?

In my house the room with the most pins is the living room.

It is funny to see this thread made me think of when I went pin mad. I had 2 bowlers in livingroom with 2 pins , 1 in master bedroom, 5 in spare bedroom ,4 in 3rd bedroom. Coke machine in kitchen and about 20 pins on end in basement. This was while I was single. Now I have a small mancave

I don't have anything in my living room, but it not out of the question.

I had a TAFG in my lounge for a few weeks whilst the garage was converted into a games room

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Aw man!

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Instead this thread should be called "who's married and who isn't".

Instead this thread should be called "who's married and who isn't".

Married

And sitting it's fourth week in transit to move to the gameroom. Present location ...Livingroom

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So true. I'd like to think I could pull it off, but I have a feeling she'd feel it somehow doesn't match the motif.

I've repaired a total of two I was not keeping in our dining room, which we rarely ever use, but is visible from our living room, just so I didn't have to deal with the stairs to the game room with something coming up.

I'm not sure which would be worse, dealing with the stairs or the hourly "when are you getting that piece of crap out of my face" from my wife.

My wife enjoys the hobby, (not nearly as much as me) but the level of bitching I would have to put up with would make it not worth. So yeah, I'd be dealing with the steps.

I'm with you. I've had 5 in the "dining" room (table is wrapped and leaning against the back wall) one of which was blocking the front door.
And I have a wife who's not so much into pinball but realizes it's better than me being in a bar or something spending money

Which leads to the bigger issue...I now need a bigger house to have a proper gameroom.

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Thought you guys would get a kick out of this... What was supposed to be a simple waxing turned into a full playfield teardown of my CV - replacing plastics, posts, LEDs, protectors, powder coating trim, all target switches, pop bumpers, etc. And it's all going down in the living room.

My wife is ecstatic as you could imagine. She doesn't mind the pins in the living room as long as she can play them. When they're out of commission and exploded all over the place, not so happy.

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I think we all do.

That pic is great!

My "dining room" is in that state CONSTANTLY. At one point when all the pins were "done" and everything was cleaned up it just didn't feel right. So I got 2 more projects

As for as the wife..nothing a nice Coach pocketbook can't fix.

Living in California, one does not have many options since basements are not common in earthquake country! With 1600 sq ft. one does what one needs to do to necessitate the pinball hobby. Outside during the day, pinball at night... I'm lucky, wife loves to swim and enjoys playing pinball too!!

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Very nice!

Oh man, these pics are going to give me ammo to go after her hard tonight about using the dining room more.

I kid, I can't complain, I have the entire finished basement in which I can fit almost 35 in total. I have little to retort with in using the dining room

Keep three in living room. Will get pic later

Happily married 40 years and wife says no problem using the living room for next machine but experience tells me that it had better be POC because she and my daughter love Johnny Depp. LOL!

Mine is pushing for AC/DC Pro

I have 2 machines in the living room, but my wife likes playing pinball!
No basement, - most places don't have basements in the southwest.

3 in my living room , wife loves it !

4 in the living room, AFM,TAF Fireball and Gottlieb Out of Sight. Plus a couple from 1930's....

Pins go in the foyer and that's their place. I have Neo Geo's in there as well and I'm going down to a single Neo to make room for more pins. Everyone concurs.

I live in a loft apartment so yes I suppose my pin and arcade are in the "living room". I wish I had my own room, the old lady doesn't care for the noise but it works out.

Had 6 in the basement and 3 in the living room. Wife said they must go so we built a game room out back. Now the only thing left in the living room are the antique coke machines. Its ok because I can go play pinball anytime and not wake the family. Its my little getaway until the gang comes out to play.

Where would I park the Harley? JK'ing , I sold the Harley for a pin.

That's where I draw the line. There is no pin that would make me sell my bike.

Now that one is worth having in the LR. I see you have only one pin also.

My basement is full, 3 pins, one sit down driving game, one stand up arcade game, one 7ft slate pool table, one 6ft bar and a small theater with a 80in. 3D TV. No place left BUT the living room, but I'm single so I can do what I want. Hmmmm I could put 10 more pins in the LR.

When I walk by my now empty dining room I try not to think to hard about how many I can squeeze in there (6!). Yes getting married again, made me move them out.The idea of a dining room table just truly irks me(use it maybe once a month if I buy one). Thankfully I have some nice art and a wall of blu-rays and dvd's that I built the shelving for and I am not removing that! See I put my foot down, the movies stay. But the pins go

Yep!!

You bet I do. My living room is large. Something like 24x30. I have pinballs in my gameroom, garage and 1 in the living room on felt castors on a wood floor. It is a gottlieb 300 with the tilt off and we can slide the hell out of it. So MUCH FUN.!!!!....Has nothing to do with a wife. I am married. If you can't do what you want in your life with a wife; then you don't have a wife you have a slave DRIVER!!!!....you be da slave. i.e. Whipped.

Aw man, I feel for ya. I was in the same situation but with my Mustang. 35 years ago my "then" GF said "if you want this relationship to go to the next level it's either me or the car". My Mustang just turned 43 last month.

Was she hot?

Just sold my Full House to a chick from work who dropped it in her living room. It's there along with a fake palm tree and a beer meister.

She's not your typical chick. She also has season tickets to the Phillies, Flyers, and Eagles.

And can drink most guys under the table.

And she wants to know when I will be eady to sell another one.

She did not even ask me to remove them but when I said the words"11 pinball machines" she said "are you crazy"?. I over did it anyways and the looks people would give me was not always good. My dogs love the currently empty room one more place to chase toys and each other.

All seven of my games are in our living room. Happily married to a woman that loves pinball. Current discussions around fixing up her office and bringing in a few more pins in place of her desk.

Is she hot?

On topic, my little collection of 2 pins are in my large living room. I have a nice finished basement, but it's a real PITA to get pins in & out because of a tight turn/wall at the bottom of the steps. My ex looked in my living room last week and said "what a bachelor pad". YUP, thanks for stopping by, see ya'!