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checked this place out 2 weeks ago after i went to the shark club and relized there were no pins there lol! a work in progress at the time but i think its gonna work well in the future. plus i got some plays on a really nice creature so i was happy

Thanks for posting. The Shark Club's games were always in great condition but the restaurant/bar just never seemed to have anyone in it. Hopefully the new location takes off & this is around for many years to come.

This is a must see for the entire family. Only problem i had was Micheal Jackson on the jukebox, multiple times....... Dam you Bobby

Pretty interesting venue. New carpet, place had a flood a year ago and the Sharky's owner got new carpet. The mezzanine thing i personally did not care for. We had that at Tilt Town a few years ago. In theory it's a nice thing, but hard to keep the temperature constant in the place. For example it was way too hot upstair, not bearable for me. Downstairs was fine just right. he had ceiling fans running but this is the nature of the beast with a mezzanine. Also since all the pinballs are under the mezzanine, there's not a great vantage point (which was a cool feature of Tilt Town, for the short year that place was open, with it's crazy mezzanine.) Thankfully it's all videos upstairs so i don't venture to play them much. (It was a constant drag to work on games in the mezzanine though, another reason i would never do it again.)

Most WPC games had credit dots but seemed to be working OK otherwise. No EMs to speak of. I asked Mike, the owner, about this. He says he really wants to keep all new games and doesn't want EMs. His experience is to buy really nice recent games, and then he has less technical issues. I can understand that, fixing games is always a headache when you have 50+ in a room. His row of new Sterns was most impressive, all LEs, which means he has no problem spending the money. All the WPCs (heck most older games too) seemed to have LEDs. Personally i'm not a fan of this. It just gives me a headache.

All 1990s and newer games were $1 a play and older SS games were 50 cents that i saw. This is a very good strategy as you're not "giving away" plays. 50 cents or lower for pinball is too cheap. If it was priced lower the increase in plays goes up dramatically, which puts a lot more wear and tear on the games. Then you fall into a Pinball Hall of Fame problem where there's too many broken/worn machines and not enough techs/time to fix them. So people may bitch that $1/play is too much, but i think everyone should get used to that. Anything less is just too cheap, especially when new games are $5000 to $8000.

Mike seemed very positive about the new place. He didn't buy it, by the way, it's leased. He couldn't come to terms with Rocky the owner. I asked if we could bring beer inside (there's a party store right next door) and he said no, they would need a license to allow that. Mike isn't a fan of alcohol, he says it just causes problems. He also wants a family friendly environment, and his feeling is beer doesn't help that. He did say that if the bills aren't getting met with the current strategy he would consider a beer/wine license. But that's a last resort, he wants to run without any alcohol. His feeling is this will be a good family/teen hang out, something that is missing from the area. It will be interesting to see if this has "legs" and works for him. Obviously the Sharks Club model didn't work, so he moved 20 miles east (wise) and changed philosophy to a non-alcohol venue. Now mike has a fair amount of alcohol experience, as the Sharks club is the largest bar in the county. Mike hates having to deal with alcohol and the problems that come with it. I guess i can't blame him. But he swung the pendulum from one extreme to the other. Not sure that will work, time will tell.

Though cool i'm still favoring the VFW much more (it's only 5 miles from mike's arcade.) Just has a better feel (though obviously i'm biased) and way more pinball games (appoaching 200, from the 1950s to present.) But it's not public so you can't just walk in, you have to know someone or be a kickstarter contributor. Also has a 24 foot bar with diet coke and diet mt.dew on tap, and is probably twice the size of mike's place (and on 10 acres.)

This is my biggest problem with the PHOF. Seems Tim would rather focus on running the place on the ultra super cheap, so he can donate more money to the Salvation Army. When I was there last, about a third of the games were broken/unplayable and I would have loved to play several of them. The irony in that is If he would just spend a little more money to maintain the games, those broken games would make him more money to donate.

Spent the evening there on Saturday, December 28th. I was very impressed with the pinball selection as I was at the Sharks. They are a little close together which makes it tough to play with popular ones packed together, this could be fixed with mixing the games a little with the less popular games splitting up the popular ones. I am not a big video guy, but seeing some of the old classics upstairs was fun and I would definately drop a few quarters up there to mix it up. I think some sort of food is going to be a must. One real nice perk at the Sharks was the great food to break up a few hours of gaming. I know you couldn't have that kind of service and selection there, but I think something will have accomodate those that want to eat besides the party store next door. A big thumbs up to anyone who has the drive and means to keep the arcade vision alive! Great job Mike!

I checked out "The Arcade" and thought I'd report back.

Video games were upstairs and pins downstairs.

The place was good sized and looks like there is plenty of room for more pins. Parking was good.

Temperature was good throughout the place, I never had to remove my jacket.

I did not think I'd play too many video games, but it was actually great fun playing the classics again. It was even more fun playing without being engulfed in all the smoke of the arcades of yesteryear. The air smelled of warm electronics.

All the pins looked in great condition. I did not notice any problems during play.

The older games had a new lease on life with the LED lighting, and looked very good. Even normally very dark games looked nicely lit (except WOZ, which was still quite dark).

Only a few games looked like a clown puked on them with with color (I think SM was the big offender here).

I was babysitting my two teen nieces and it was great to just let them run loose without the worry of them getting older guys to buy them alcohol as they normally do.

This looks like a nice place to take the family - super cool of Mike to have this open to the public !!!!