EBD was the game we played in college. It was in the student union and would get played all day long.

The game can be brutally hard with short game times BUT in a hot game you could win 6 or 7 credits. There are specials all over the place. Even though relatively simple by today's standards there are several different strategies to winning credits. This game was all about trying to win replays and spending quarters to do it. A little of that is lost in the home environment where there is only one main strategy for high scores (bonus and multipliers).

We would wait in line to play and stack our quarters on the glass. We always played winner gets to stay and play and the other 3 players move to the back of the line. Winners and players leaving could "sell" credits they earned to those in line. We had GREAT fun with this as when you were on a hot streak you could actually make money playing it!

The operator did great with it even with the selling of credits between us. The game was there for 3 years and he put NOS populated playfields in it - twice.

It brings back so many good memories. I have one now with a touched and recleared repro playfield in it. Still a blast to play.

Sure, it is simple compared to newer games but was an incredible earning and selling (3rd highest selling game of all time, IIRC) machine from a time when pinball was doing well.

If I could only have one machine it would be Eight Ball Deluxe.

Parker