Holy crap, I have moved a ton of games in and out of my house and never had issue. I was just bringing one out for a trade and disaster struck. Sometimes my escalera pulls forward a bit to be at the right angle but I always can lean back to anchor it. This morning it pulled a bit too much and my balance wasn’t right. The game tipped back down the stairs and flung me over top of it.

My wife and son were at the bottom but thank goodness I always make sure they are to the side and the stairs are clear.

I don’t think I broke anything but I’m cut and bruised up pretty bad.

Anyone have ways they better anchor themselves when using their escalera? I definitely don’t want that happening again.

In somewhat surprising news. The game appears to be completely fine.

Lower as in you lean back more or sit back on the steps?

Ha was going up. I unpacked the game and set it up and amazingly there is only one little mark on the bottom-back right of the head but nothing else. Still plays perfectly and no errors. Could have been much worse for me and the game.

Yeah pretty sure the rail would break off. I know some guys here get off on YouTube injury videos or whatever but it was pretty scary. I can take a hit and I would probably laugh more about it if it wasn’t a close call where it could have potentially killed my two year old son. Can’t help but think what if I hadn’t put him aside or if he followed me. That shakes you up a bit. I’m a pretty big dude at 6’2” 240 lbs and I would consider myself to be pretty darn strong. I’ve moved pins a ton in the same way and in an instant this just went completely wrong. This wasn’t even the first pin I had brought up that day.

I guess I was just sharing a tale of caution and seeing if there were any little tricks people did to be extra safe. Will be more careful in the future.

Ha that one is wild. I didn’t get any airtime on this one. Just the machine tipped forward and I kinda rolled over it. It started coin door up and just rolled back to be coin door down. I ended on top of it.

I have no clue what I did. I think I had done it so many times that I was probably just distracted and thinking about something else. There is normally a little adjustment it does to align with the track and I think without being set right I just wasn’t quite ready to counter balance.

Perhaps you’re right. I did move games with just a dolly for a while but it’s 16 stairs out so I figured I should have a better long term strategy to preserve my back. Looks like today that plan didn’t work out.

On a good note. The game had almost zero impact at all. Plays completely perfect and I even put up some high scores last night. The only thing was this little ding to the decal. It would be fitting that the game that so frequently beat the crap out of me would rough me up one last time.

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