Quoted from pinballslave:I know where you're coming from, I'd love to invite people off the street to come and play the pins, give them a break from their daily routine and something fun to do to bring a smile to their faces... the only snag is my wife doesn't like visitors, especially ones she doesn't personally know and like (which excludes most of my friends), so pretty much no-one gets to play them except me!!
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//]]>Xenon is stunning for sure! I remember when I fist saw that game in an arcade... I remember being totally blown away and mesmerised by it's beauty more than any other game I ever saw! And the voice!! Shame the gameplay is somewhat limited though.
I totally get the invite people off the street thing! Sometimes I leave the windows open in the pinball room as it faces the street of our house. I keep wishing some neighbor would walk by and be a total pinhead and just walk up and ring the bell and want to play!
We bought this house in March. There were tons of places the games could fit upstairs, but I’ve done the carrying them up and downstairs thing before and never again! So when we looked at this house the room as soon as you walk in the front door downstairs was the only one that made sense. I reminded my wife about not wanting to carry them upstairs and said, this room right by the front door will be the pinball room, are you okay that the first thing people see when they come in our house will be pinball machines??? I think she wasn’t super thrilled, but she agreed to it. Now that we’ve had people over and had fun pinball parties, she agrees that having them first thing in the house just sets visitors up to know that our place is all about having fun!
Isn’t that one of the great things about pinball machines? They’re an immediate conversation piece!