Pinball is my main hobby. I've been tempted tosell a game or two to help fund parts for my latest acquisition.

Doc I HAVE to talk to you about Nixie clocks. I just discovered them recently and I desperately need to make or buy one. When I have more time can I shoot you a PM?

Pinball is my main hobby. I've been tempted tosell a game or two to help fund parts for my latest acquisition.

Pinball is my new hobby. I enjoy filmmaking,music,movies,hiking,jogging and photography and travel.

Right now it is my number 1 hobby. I like it because I can do it when it is snowing and raining, it satisfies my tinkering need, the wife, kid, mom and dad like it, and it is fun.
To answer your updated question, right now I am selling other stuff to fund my pins. But I would sell some to fund other things, if necessary.

I'm, appearently, only saving half the usual pinball funds to fund some like umm...what do you call it...stupid worthless stone on a ring for someone round here. Dumb ring....or a sweet pin?!!? seems obvious to me.

Besides pinball I do home theater, video games, coin collecting, cars, and sports. Have been rotating out of pinball slowly over the past year or two, the prices on the new machines have basically made the hobby too expensive to keep up with (not that I couldn't afford the new games, it's more about the fact that $7k is ridiculous for a new game that was $4k 5 years ago). My son has been getting into coins, so I've been trying to help him do that over the past couple months.

Hopefully at some point the prices crash and I can justify the cost again...anything over $6k just seems like too much when you can literally buy a classic car for that same amount.

In order

Family
Work
Friends
Pinball
Guitar
Guns

and music

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Summer: Amusement Parks & Roller Coasters - Season Passholder for Six Flags (Gold Season Pass) and Cedar Fair Parks (Platinum Season Pass)

Winter: Snow Skiing-Downhill - Season Passholder - Blue Mountain, Pennsylvania (30 minutes from home)

Surfing for me all year round

After seeing what people's houses look like I'm not surprised at the extent and expense of some of these hobbies

I roast coffee and I'm a jazz drummer.

Pinball and knocking over banks.

Yes.

Pinball
Automatic Watches
Movies
PS3/Vita
Handguns (Used to shoot competitively)
Motorcycles (Formerly)
Astronomy (Formerly)
Scuba (Formerly)

I type.

Depends on how you define other hobbies, but I enjoy video games as much as pinball and play / collect them too. I also collect cards to an extent, books on theme parks / Disney, Indiana Jones Adventure memorabilia, Ghostbusters toys and Peanuts. Amazingly, most of this doesn't take up that much space

What I would definite my hobby as though is that I love to search out new things and get the "thrill of discovery" or the thrill of purchase or something like that. Knowing that can be dangerous, I started an internet business with a friend (the GOAT Store) years ago that allows me to satisfy the thrill of the hunt with one of my favorite hobbies (video game collecting), while also tempering just what I feel like I actually need to keep.

The latest thing that I'm into collecting has been the best for my bottom line - I started scrimping and saving a couple years ago to invest in the stock market. I enjoy the same thrill of the hunt that I get when I buy things, but if I do my research I generally gain money as a result, and I don't have anything to store

I now realize how poor I am

Vintage trail bikes.

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Falconry

Crossfit
Stocks
Arcade games
Sports memorabilia
Fantasy footlball

Pinball, all year round
Ford Mustangs, when the roads are clear of that white icy stuff outside.

Oh really! Thats amazing!

I like to:
Brew beer (and drink it too!)
Play Go
Ski
Play ice hockey
Keeps me busy.

7 Guitars

and my band is recording our second EP in June!

I want to get into pressing shirts as well.

Pinball
Cooking
Video games
Cars
Collecting haunted mansion (ride only) art
Disneyland
Movies
Music

cool man!

Flying my Cessna 172 if the weather is not too bad.

Rains too much here!

My first love is restoring muscle cars when I have the funds to do so. Second would be pinball which is a slightly less expensive hobby. I also like watching old movies from the 40s and 50s though that is not really a hobby. I'm also a die hard Angels fan.

Nope! Love messing with the old 2 stroke Rotax Seadoo's.

Hobby? This is a lifestyle choice!

I'm a vintage and rare drum collector. I've been heavily schooled in percussion all my life (piano, drums, vibraphone, organ, etc...). Also, you can't name a Rush song that I can't play.

Long time diehard slalom waterskier.
I also rescue older Labs.

In addition to pinball I play ice hockey for a local mens league team.

Home brew. And it's about time to start a new batch!

My Hobbies:
1. Spending time with family
2. Pinball collecting
3. Motorcycles-Road and Dirt
4. Fishing-Fly and Bass and Walleye-Occasional Deep Sea
5. Scuba Diving exotic locations-my last dive was in Kona at night with 16-20' eagle rays feeding. My next dive is in Belize-we are going to dive with giant whale sharks during full moon.
6. Frisbee Golf
7. Camping
8. Paddle boarding-new hobby
9. Garage Sales/Estate Sales-Or as I call it-Treasure Hunting
10. Mountain Biking
11. Snowboarding
12. Home Improvement and Construction
13. Playing music with production synthesizer keyboard and percussion-conga's, bongo's, djembe, timbales, and steel drums.
14. Listening and going to see music and various artist.

In the Winter I tend to have a lot more time for pinball. In the Summer I am going a 100mph-so I get in what I can. Here is a picture of my new Harley. Having a Harley is almost as bad as owning a pinball machine. Every time you go to the store or on-line you see something you want for it. I am modding my Harley-LOL

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Gotta say I've had more fun with pinball but sometimes I get burned
out (or run out of space) and revert to my other hobbies;

classic British sports cars, some American classics too
antique and wireless (pre 1920's) radio...hence the avatar...
classic video games
hit and miss engines
designing & building tiny homes (120 sq ft or less)
ham radio

Not in any particular order
Steve

Other hobbies include skinny skiing and going to bullfights on acid.

But when the wife and kids are around it's all about boating, pinball and our saltwater reef tank.

Dirt bikes , jet sking, and ice hockey. I play hockey the most right now.

Nice Caddy Shack reference! Is that you Lacy Underalls?

It's things like this that make me wish I was more motivated in life. Meh, think I'll just have another drink.

-Dynamite handfishing
-Half storey parachuteless basejumping
-Faberge egg toss
-Squirrel wrangling
-Kraft Dinner
-Molson Canadian

Why no bowlers? I know I thought about it, but bowling is tre expensive! $80-$100 for my family to bowl for less than an hour iirc. maybe more, and of course that's without concessions.

Anyone else here part of the drinking club with a running problem?

Right now I'm collecting dust.

Pinball, arcades, musical instruments, art, music.

You win the award for damn coolest response at a party to, "So, what do you do?"

I bowled back in the day. Have two 300 games. Just lost interest for a number of reasons. Was always happy when bowling was done so I could go play pinball.

Fishing baseball and flying.

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Wow, now are we talking advertising, or the old paper machie', etc. stuff that actually WAS the haunted house ride?.................pm me, that sounds way cool, love the old spook rides!!!

Used to be HUGE into collecting comics- mainly Marvel books. Still have some.

Now just pinball mainly.

I guess reading/posting on pinball forums would be in a different category as owning and playing pinball, or maybe it is in the same category, but just a different aspect of it.