I have never seen pins up on chairs during a flood. Good trick that never occurred to me.

The chairs gave their lives wisely.

You have to save the King, that's what soldiers are for.

That was awesome!!!

Could you please expand a little more on your custom animation displays? I’d like to build myself a few

Damn! Very sorry. I think we got 7-8” here so we are in the same boat (no pun intended). My room is fortunately ok. I hope this clears out soon for you.

Two beasts! Haha both of these games are ridiculously tall and heavy.

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Great looking room! I have to ask, does the Skee-Ball get much play? My wife loves them and I've always thought it would be fun to get one for her some day - but she's worried that the novelty would wear off after having one at home and we'd end up not really playing it. How are you getting on with it?

Honestly, everyone said "I love Skee-Ball" so I pulled the trigger and got one at my wife's request. It rarely gets played and when it does get used it is so loud it gets on my nerves when I'm playing the pins. It's probably going to be sold to make room for another pin, and my wife is onboard with that decision. Someone will get a good deal on a barely played Skee-Ball game!

I have a "smart ball" skee ball machine, and it's used continuously when the party crowd arrives. One of the most popular machines aside from the bubble hockey being number 1.

Does consume a lot of game room space though.

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Aw man that's terrible, Just curious what game is that in the first picture with the blue almost looks like lightening or something on the side.

Jolly Park. I hope everything works out for Jaytrem, and also super curious about the collection of theme park/rollercoaster pins - Jaytrem, do you have a lot of nostalgia for Asbury Park or other boardwalks?

Thanks, that confirms both of our thoughts. Think we'll leave it unless I see a great deal on one over here!

I had one, good thing we put it in the garage at first, the kids and the rest of my family went to play it, and we got our fill. It was an ice ball machine, a load of fun. But it got old quickly, ski ball machines are huge. I think it would’ve taken up the space of four or five pinball machines

I’m grateful to play ski ball at the movie theater down the road, even sometimes we go there and I walk by it and remember the time we owned one and don’t even play the machine sitting in front of me

UGH. Ida got us too. Hoping you can get it cleaned up quickly and without minimal loss

Chris

Thanks everyone. Bit of bad pinball news, the Cyclone fell over sometime over night. Very disappointed, that was my first game and all time favorite. It was in excellent condition, probably not so much anymore. I'll let it dry out and see what can be done. At least the backglass was upstairs.

The rest of the machines stayed high and dry. Even the Disco Fever was high enough, I wasn't so sure for a while. I think my mistake with the Cyclone was that I put it on some This End Up furniture. Turns out they're very buoyant.

The room itself it a total mess. Things were looking so good just on the last page of this thread. Oh well, time to get back to work. Water still isn't gone yet, but plenty to do.

So sorry to hear about all of this.

If flooding gets to the point where it can reach pins up on legs you know shit is serious.
That sucks so much.

You just never know. I have a skeeball and it is used a lot at parties.

I also have a dart machine that everyone told me was a waste and it is the most used thing in out game house.

I have star wars battle pod that is the most amazing eye candy ever but is rarely played.

Just depends on the group that you entertain.

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That sucks man, I feel for you!! If that happened to me I'd be devastated!! Hope it all gets cleared up with minimal damage to your room!! My laminate floor would be totally destroyed by that!!

Got the beer pong championships going on this weekend!

T-800 is protecting the strap!

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How do you like that Jurassic Park Arcade? That is my wife's favorite game at our local arcade. I have one on order arriving this month as a surprise for her 50th Birthday. My 4 year old grandson is gonna go crazy when he sees it. Nice game room!

New goal. Forget a game room, I need a game house.

It is probably the best arcade game of all time. Saying that, it is linear and will get old over time. I have a large collection and parties like once a month so it still gets a lot of play.

Still games like pacman battle royale, moto gps and crusin blasts are more popular because of the opportunity to race each other/play each other.

I won’t ever sell it and for me it is a piece of history and piece of art, just like the battle pod.

Go back and search my images. I need to do some upgrading since I have bought some new stuff and moved stuff around but you can get an idea from the past.

New cut out of my son. He loves it!!!! Lol

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Damn, you guys got hit hard!! Hope all the pins and your family Ok.
Fuck Ida!!

Im in the area as well. The amount of rain falling was insane. It was so damn loud. Luckily my basement is ok. I have a french drain, sump pump, and a backup. So lets hope that works over the years.

New goal. Get invited over to jorge5240 ’s house since I don’t live too far away…

IDA sucked, big big time.
So sorry for everyone's loss (games, cars, homes, etc.), just more stress we all do NOT need.

Served as a good reminder for me to call my insurance agent just to make sure my coverage is there on the games. (We went through flooding before and it's simply an awful, traumatic experience).

We're 500 ft. and 3 house-rows from a normally small stream that ALMOST overtopped.
We consider ourselves very lucky compared to those who got hit hard.
Sending out good vibes to those affected ...

So devastating. Your room just finished and looked so good! The storm water came so fast I'm impressed that you got your games elevated. Sorry for the temporary setback! Time for a scotch or something strong.

you might be ok. PAPA, managed to salvage cactus canyon completely under water.

Finally starting to see some order in the main room!

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Wow that flooding is crazy
You handled that in a very wise way
Don’t be too hard on yourself for cyclone you could have lost many more. At least now you have an excuse to completely restore it to new.

Lives were lost in that storm.
Complete madness and chaos.
Really crazy

Sorry about Cyclone

We got water as well. Not nearly as bad as you did though. This was all the while our sump pump was running the entire time through the storm. The water came up through the floor. Nothing we could do but wait. I thought we’d be ok based in past experiences. I was wrong. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you. My stuff should dry out. Just an annoyance for me. Much more serious for you. We only got about 7-8” in our basement. The video was about 3 hours before the rain stopped.

Chris

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So sorry for you guys, that's awful to deal with... hopefully it doesn't damage to flooring or building structure and it dries out properly in the end!

Five Jolly Parks?

Thanks again everyone, and sorry to hear other people are having issues. Cyclone is actually looking pretty good. Got a fan inside and 4 dehumidifiers going. Brought the playfield upstairs yesterday. The rest of the machines are safely on the ground.. Some new pictures....

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Wow, I knew pinballslave had more than one. But five!!! We had briefly discussed me possibly purchasing one before I managed to find a nice one already over here.

Keep the dehumidifiers going, but in all seriousness, go to the store and buy some newspapers, may be able to get some free yesterpapers from the library. Wad up pages individually and throw them in your machine. They absorb water from the air extremely effectively.

Things got worse since we were chatting about that... what's even more crazy is that I've never even set one up to play yet!! Too many games arrived at once and had to go straight to storage! It was nuts to end up with so many of these, they weigh a ton too, so they're a pain to lug around, as I'm sure you can testify! I can't imagine how you got yours up on those chairs!!!

I let my wife lift up the Jolly Park, she's strong like bull! Seriously though, I can't thank her enough for helping me save the pins. Never complained once. She has suggested maybe we should build up rather than keeping them on the ground level.

I have tons of newspapers for fire building. I'll stuff some in. Thanks! Any other recovery tips are appreciated.

I just wanted to say that we have owned ours for almost three years and it gets played at every party we have. People love it and it seems a lot of people prefer that over the pins and arcades. Definitely depends on your crowd.

First I saw that pic and thought "well that was an original way to get the furniture out of the way when mopping the floor" (floor looked so shiny), then I took another look and "oh, wait..."

Hope everything will be OK in the end.

My wife would have the opposite suggestion: to get rid of them totally so the need to deal with them again would vanish! You're very lucky to have such a helpful and appreciative wife!!

holy shit. you want to sell the one that's in the bottom left corner of your picture?

Can't wait to see your game room in person!!!!

My Pinball Hall of Fame in the gameroom. All the games I have owned and sold get their flyer framed on the wall. Sort of like how some people have hunting trophies!

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Cool ass idea!!!

Did you buy these or download and layout and print the art yourself?

What size are they? I like that they're small, I can find room for this!

This is crazy! My house got nailed by hurricane force winds and the bayou rose 4’ behind my house. Yet you have way more damage than me! I was trapped here for a couple days till the water went down and we just got power back today. What a mess.

Some changes to the lineup:

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