I've never been to any of the other tournaments. do they bring in alternate pins, or it's whatever they have there now?

Fun! Count me in. I was just there a few days ago and they still had four machines. Most were working pretty well.

Can't wait.

Cheers,
Nick

Man whys it got to be on a Tuesday! I work a 15 hour day on Tuesdays!!

Yep, Tuesday rules me out too unfortunately. I get home around 7:15pm, and up just before 5am next day for work, so not much time to play outside the home. Great if you're 5min away though. Ah well, I suck anyway and would just be adding to the winners take. :>

Anyone know why they pulled machines anyway? Stern still has the 6 listed for sale on their site. You'd think they'd at least have one of each of those there.

Seattle GameWorks doesn't take pinball seriously at all, and hasn't for at least the last couple of years that I know of. The Stern Iron Man debut took place there, and someone had spiffed up the machines before that happened, but as a rule, pinball is wasted there.

i made a comment in another thread. operator told us gameworks no longer buys from stern since they get "test models" on loan. I don't know if they don't make enough money by owning, or they just figure why buy when they get freebies. I still wish they would buy one after the test phase, at least for a little while.

Yeah. You'd think that at least TRON would be in a GameWorks. Iron Man is a good game for GameWorks, too. Spider-Man, absolutely.
Is it true that Spielberg runs GameWorks, or is it nearly all Sega now?

First it went bankrupt, then Sega sold it.

http://tinyurl.com/84lufzx

If you google 'gameworks sold' you can find many related articles.

Uh-oh. No wonder the pinball machines are all crap and there's crane games everywhere in there.

We have tourneys 2 times a year, 1 in October before the expo and another in March before Midwest gaming classic. We do buy pinballs when I feel they are a good buy and I have money in the budget from corporate. We last bought Ironman and I am interested in buying Avatar... Transformers kick but also. Problem is that Pinballs in general get beat up here and when compared to other games the rate of return is lower. But I am committed to the pinball community. This last tourney we had we upped the prize money to 2K and it was the best money generator to date with the lowest amount of competitors we have ever had. I didn't do a good job getting the word out for that one. If I did we would have had even a stronger showing.I don't look to make money oin the events...I look to create some excitement. If the tourney in March does just as well, I am going to up the prize money. I will keep you all up to date on the next tourney and come to the Monthly open play. We will do our best to keep the games up, again remeber that novice players play them and don't really care how they treat them

If u buy a pin, please make it tron over avatar. I played that maybe twice, I would think tron pulls in more money?

Also as crazy as it sounds, if you were to buy an older pin (even possibly pre dot-matrix) that nobody else in the area has (black knight2000, earrhshaker), you could buy a nicely treated one for half the cost and you could rake in some serious money