One of the many reasons I love you guys.
You guys have the best costumer service/customer relations hands down.

Ive told these stories before, but I’ll tell them again.
During the pandemic my wife was playing the hell out of our Rob Zombie.
She sent a gnarly air all flying at the pop bumper and it shattered the plastic on it. I hit up Charlie and he sent me not just one, but three replacements just in case it happens again, lol. He also refused to take my money when I offered to pay.

At TPF a few years ago I ran into Charlie and KT at their booth. I started talking to Charlie about the servo on my Captain Spaulding not working right. He reached down into his parts tackle box and handed me a new servo. I offered to pay for it and he said “no, I’m just really happy your buying our games and supporting our company”. After that I played a few games on Alice Copper with Charlie walking me through the shots, which was really cool. I went and bough an Alice Cooper a few months later.

Luke was instrumental on helping me with my Rick and Morty and I’ll never forget that.
I can’t say enough good things about these people.
Hands down a fantastic group.
Customer for life right here.

I think Dave summed it up pretty well.
Picking on this game is like a running joke with some people.
Truth is the machines are making their way into the hands of people who really enjoy them and it’s developing kind of a cult following.
Most new owners (as well as long term owners) that pick one up post something similar to what you posted where they don’t understand the negativity. It’s good to see them making their way into the hands of people who appreciate them. They only made 250 of them, which is damn few and I’m very happy to have one.

The lineup just got a little more Spooky.
Halloween and Ultraman arrived today.
Up to 6 Spooky pins now.

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LOL, I'll wind up putting together a complete set at some point.
Need to get me a AMH and a TNA still.
Theres a local collector with a really nice HUO AMH I may offer to trade.
TNA I'll wind up with on a long enough timeline, but meanwhile I get to play it at Electric Bat whenever I go down there.
Was kind of holding off on TNA to see if you guys ever do another run of them.

I bid on the Jetsons in the Banning auction, but it went for a little more than I wanted to spend.

I need to go visit the Flagstaff location.
Got some friends up there and its about an hour shorter drive for me than most people in the valley.
As it is EB in Tempe is about an hour from me (as is most location pinball).

We’re probably going to open them both up on Saturday.
I would have done it tonight, but I was busy setting up machines and a cotton candy maker at my kids school for “teacher fun at work day” (something I get drafted into doing every year).
Have to go pick up my machines tomorrow night so that’s out as well.
Thankfully this year I just took arcade machines, which although heavier you tint have to take legs on and off.

I can’t unfortunately because I’ll be in Germany.
My travel schedule is back in full swing now and it’s been crazy the last few months.
I really want to get down there and check out your Dukes of Hazard though.

I can arrange this if you want.
Come out for ZapCon and we will take you all shooting in the desert.
One of the guys in our local pinball group is a gunsmith, FFL, SOT holder etc.
He owns a Russian RPG launcher.
We could do the Spooky playfield test against a rocket propelled grenade.
Only issue is the grenades are around $750 per round (totally worth it IMO).
I would pay for a couple, but after that your on your own.

It’s the little things in life that make us happy.

Installed the last code update last night and played a bunch of games with some friends. Had a friggin blast.
I’ll say this about Spooky games. They get a lot of hate after the initial release for issues with code and bugs etc. Alice Cooper was the same way and there was a smaller amount of that with Rick and Morty initially. Hell even Rob Zombie still has this strange stigma about it and I really like that game. As the code gets better and more refined the games really turn a corner and tend to blossom into something really good. I feel like you have to stick it out with these and see them through until the end. People trash talked Alice Cooper calling it a brick fest with shitty code and that game really turned out to be BAD ASS and one of my favorites. Halloween and Ultraman are getting there quick and really coming along. I don’t think they are quite there yet, but they are both really frigin good at where they are at now. I think a few more updates and some of the rats that’s abandoned ship early on these machines will wish they had not. Personally I like getting a game with early code and watching the game developer into something. Watching Eric do all the things he did with Rick and Morty and how hands on he was with the community was exciting for me. You knew there was always something new in the pipeline and it kept the game really fresh and fun. I feel like that’s kind of where we’re at with Halloween now. The code is good enough to really enjoy playing the game and come a long way since the start, yet we know there’s more to come and something to look forward to. Exciting times.

Why would having it on the floor make you laugh?
There’s a couple here locally on location at Electric Bat as well as Jesse James Comics. From what I can tell they get played. Electric Bat got theirs first, which is just over and hour from my house. Before I had my machine I (as well as some of my friends) made several trips there just check it out and play it. Owning the machine, I would say that it’s much better suited for a home environment (at least for my taste), but I think it’s good to have these out on location so people can experience them first hand.

Oh, gotcha.
Halloween (the Holliday) is going to be upon us quicker than you think.

I dig your enthusiasm.
You do you the way you want to.

I don’t understand what I’m supposed to be seeing in this photo. Is there something wrong with it that I’m not immediately picking up?

With our kids it was all about age.
My daughter got scared really easy when she was younger and would not watch scary movies.
As soon as she turned 13 she was binge watching The Walking Dead and alike.

Not only that, she texts me pictures every time she knocks off one of my scores.