We'll, me and the wife went out to the grand opening and it was a lot of fun. Basically it looks like the owner at sharks bought a building and took all his pins and arcade games and put them there. The thing that's nice for me is that it's about 20 minutes closer to my house than the old place. .
The layout is pretty much one large room with a balcony area above. All the pins are on the lower level and arcade games above . I didn't count, but it looks to be 50 pins and 50 classic arcade games. I'm not much of a vid guy but I was happy to see pretty much all classic games. No redemption or any of the new games. I would say probably half the vids were not up and running when I was there. Kinda stinks for a grand opening but I don't fault them too much when every pin was working. And it looked like they still had some games that just arrived and hadn't found their homes yet. Condition looked good on the games but again, I'm not a vid guy so I couldn't tell you if they were using the wrong marquee, or control panel overlay. Once everything's up and running I'm looking forward to going through and playing all the vids.
As far as the pins go, it was pretty impressive. I've only been to the old venue once so I didn't get to play a lot of these games. The high end games were mint. MM, AFM, TZ, AF, CV were perfect and decked out with led's and color dmd's. All the pins were a doller a game. The older solid states were a quarter and I did find a few bonuses were White Water was supposed to be a doller and it was actually set to fifty cents per play.
We got there around three, so it was still pretty early and the place was filling up pretty quick. The only issue I had with the crowd was, trying to play white water and a few kids were on a T2 next to me. One was playing while the other was basically leaning up against my arm trying to watch his buddy play. The only thing that would have helped is if the games were farther apart and they really didn't have the room to do that.
The staff was nice and I found out they are starting a leauge in Jan. I already emailed about the leauge and I'm just waiting on a response. Overall the place is great! Unless your going to expo your not going to find this many great pins, all working and in fantastic shape. It's a good 40 min drive for me so it's not a place I can visit every weekend but I'm looking forward to playing some monthly leauge games and connecting with some other pinheads.
Here's some pics and a list of games. I'm not going to try and list all the vids. Just try to see what you can in the pics. Oh, and the last pic is my mediocre score on White Water that got me second place on the machine. We will see if it's still up there on the next visit.
Space invaders. El Dorado. Attack From Mars. Twilight Zone. Adams Family. Medevil Madness. White Water. Fish Tales. Dracula. Starship Troopers. Star Wars. Creature From the Black Lagoon. Star Wars The pinball 2000 one. Monster Bash. Circus Voltare. Family Guy. Terminator 2. Corvette. Star Trek. Star Trek, the next generation. Cleopatra. Lights Camera Action. Laser War. Time Machine. Nine Ball. Xenon. Whirlwind. World Cup Soccer. Frankenstein. Black Rose. Funhouse. Congo. No Fear. Royal Rumble. Tommy. Jurassic Park. Austin Powers. Indiana Jones. Tales from the Arabian nights. Scared Stiff. Theatre of Magic. Junkyard. Champion Pub. Pirates of the Carribean. Lord of the Rings. Iron Man. X Men. Avengers. Transformers. Batman. Spider man. Tron. Metallica. Ac/Dc. Wizard of Oz. The new Star Trek. I believe it's the LE.
I might have missed a few. There were a few em's, pitch and bat's ect....
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