Quoted from jrpinball:Mine don't fit anymore. Too much bier and bratwurst!
My eyes are very thankful for bier and bratwurst...
Quoted from jrpinball:Mine don't fit anymore. Too much bier and bratwurst!
My eyes are very thankful for bier and bratwurst...
Quoted from Chrisbee:256 vote, well done you lot!
Maybe the biggest EM poll of all times
Pretty much a perfect bell-chart distribution too
chart-399.pdfQuoted from PMcGee:Pretty much a perfect bell-chart distribution too
Or a witches hat, that would explain a lot!!
Quoted from o-din:If I could go back to 1974 I would change nothing. It was a great time to be 12 years old.
Me too! 1962, what a grand year!
I am 45 and recently got into pinball machines. Like many other I played them as a kid mostly at the skating rink. My kids like pinball and one of them and grandma found a Chicago coin sun valley at a garage sale this summer for $125. It needed A $7 score reel coil and a ton of cleaning. As soon as it was moved to the basement a week ago my daughter found roller coaster tycoon at another garage sale. My wife thought we should have one old and one new and the two we have are 40 years apart 1962 and 2002. Now I have my eyes on a williams cyclone that is broke at a local pizza place.
At the rate I am going I may have to move the ping pong table out.
Started playing em pinball in diapers and hope to go out the same way just hoping the machines last that long.
38 and I love the challenge of repairing and restoring EM's. I've only been working on pins for about 6 years, but I cut my teeth on a Bally Trio. That was my first experience working on them and I've been hooked ever since.
Quoted from MC35:38 and I love the challenge of repairing and restoring EM's. I've only been working on pins for about 6 years, but I cut my teeth on a Bally Trio. That was my first experience working on them and I've been hooked ever since.
Bally Trio... Great Pin...
63
I don't think the "years young" is fooling anybody.... but it's a nice thought!
I've got 48 pins with only 3 of them being solid-states.
I started collecting around '98 but have been playing pinball since I was thirteen in '64.
Don't have any desire to add more solid-states but there's always another EM I would like to have. And I think there is always going to 'be' another EM that I want. So with this in mind, I have decided to call my collection complete. Because I don't want to become the collector who needs to live as long as Noah in the bible, in order to get to them all.
Quoted from Chrisbee:That is a MIGHTY collection!
Thanks, Chrisbee!
Hopefully, it won't get any 'mightier'
I'll be 56 in two weeks. I only have 3 pins, but 2 are EM. Third is Bally's Night Rider which came in both flavors.
My wife and I both like EM's. My older eyes and slower reflexes find them easier to play.
I'm 48. My Dad managed a restaurant at The Plateau Bowling Alley in Watertown SD in the 70's. I remember going there & watching the pinball repair guy service the 10-15 pins. That's why I want at least 1 EM in my basement. I found out that bowling alley is no longer there. I called the historical society there to see if they had some old photos showing the pinball machines but they didn't find any.
Quoted from Pinballprowess:Because I don't want to become the collector who needs to live as long as Noah in the bible, in order to get to them all.
You talking about me, glen?
Are you kidding me?! Your tiny collection??
You should be able to knock 'that' out... in a couple of weekends!
50 Have 5 Pins 3 of witch are EM The other 2 are early Gottlieb solid state. Now trying to talk price for a EM shuffle alley That will fit right in with the solid state alley i already have. As my grand sons get older they will love the old games.
i'm old, so i forgot whether or not i posted in this thread...
51, and an em guy until they sprinkle my ashes in the sea...
Quoted from ccotenj:i'm old, so i forgot whether or not i posted in this thread...
51, and an em guy until they sprinkle my ashes in the sea...
51?!?!
Well, ya can't get any sympathy from ME.
Quoted from Pinballprowess:51?!?!
Well, ya can't get any sympathy from ME.
true, i had forgotten some around here are ancient enough to have crossed the atlantic on the mayflower...
Quoted from Dabcosr:Not at sea I'm using one of my pins as an urn.
i have told my neighbor several times that i will be buried in one, which is why i SO badly wanted rotordave to hit the northeast with his hearse...
Quoted from ccotenj:true, i had forgotten some around here are ancient enough to have crossed the atlantic on the mayflower...
Ouch!!
31 here and just starting to build a collection. So far 3 machines, 2 EM's, and a SS joker poker. Grew up playing a Jack's Open my parents had. I've always enjoyed pinball and now have a son of my own. I want him to grow up loving pinball the way I did so I started searching for an EM. Found a Target Pool and am now hooked
When I first got back into pinball in 2008, I was the typical raised-on-WMS Gen X'er of the 90s.
Now I play everything. My favorite short-flipper game is Target Pool and I'd buy one in a heartbeat.
Even 90s Gottliebs are growing on me, if they're set up right.
Quoted from o-din:A ride on the Santa Maria was a too high dollar ticket. But we got there.
I can see you're in the water....
Quoted from VDrums2112:I only own 1 EM but I really like them... Grew up on EMs.
47 years old.
-Steve Ridge
4 pins, 1 is an EM, grew up on Royal Flush, 49, and also a drummer.
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Quoted from Boise_D:And you're on this thread because...?
56, grew up at the local bowling lanes in the mid 70's. Great memories of playing EM's like Old Chicago, Fireball, Wizard, Jumping Jack, Aztec and Ro Go. Fast forward to beginning to collect games in 2013. I now have these EM games plus 13 others which include Bowling Queen, Sweet Hearts, Pop a Card, Lucky Hand, Pro Pool, Capt. Fantastic, Aladdins Castle, Hokus Pokus, and King of Diamonds. It has become quite addictive, but a great hobby of repairing and restoring.
37 and I never played pinball until 2009 so I found SS and DMD games first. After a few trips to PAPA for Pinburgh I started really enjoying EM's. Really fun and challenging and especially love the good spinner EM's. A nicely setup and dialed EM can be just as fast as a SS or DMD game and more challenging! Love my Mars Trek to death!
42.
My dad liked pinball and had several EM pins, as well as a ball bowler, puck bowler and a jukebox in our basement when I was growing up in the 70s/80s. I remember thinking about how awesome it would be to have a Pac Man machine!
So I like EMs for that reason. I do plan on venturing into the solid state world eventually (while keeping my EMs, of course)
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couldnt stand the things until i began working at a shop that repairs mostly EM's. took about a year but now i am a full on snob. just love the way they work, pure and simple.
Age, 64. And my one big regret in life is that I spent too much time in school, and not enough in amusement arcades.
Old enough to have seen that collector generations and perspectives in this hobby have changed for the worse over the past 30 years.
Owned more than 50 EMs, which is more than my personal age. Age actually has only minor relevance in pinball, as most collectors who "stick around" eventually expand their knowledge to EMs, if they did not start out on them anyway.
Best way to break into the hobby.
You will actually be forced to fix something.
Added myself to the tally in the the 51-60 group. Good poll. Lot's of EM people out there apparently. Nice to see a bump for this thread. Might catch the eye of newer members. I started into this during the past summer and I have wound up with a good collection of machines quickly - enough that some extra games go to my son's house !
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