It’s changed a fair bit over the last year and a half that I’ve been in the pinball hobby. I’m quite happy with where it’s at, and am also excited to see what pins the future brings.

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haha. Its probably more pimped out than it should be, but its one my family and guests love to play, and I got it for a very nice price, so I decided to spruce it up a bit. Powdercoated legs and rails, orange t-molding and a custom translite I made myself. I think its an underrated game, though I can see how the announcer gets on peoples nerves lol.

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Not so much a gameroom, but more so my current lineup. It goes Baywatch, Super Mario Bros, Monopoly, Terminator 2, Star Wars Trilogy, and then a Star Wars themed retropie powered arcade cabinet.
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Thanks!
1) I know its cliche, but that's a tough question. They all play a bit differently. I would say currently its Monopoly, though for the longest time it was Super Mario Bros. I also just got T2 and Star Wars Trilogy, so one of those may take the top spot yet (I'm really loving Star Wars Trilogy so far). Baywatch has really solid gameplay, and the color dmd is beautiful.
2)I believe its just under 3000 games. I have complete collections on it for the NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Sega Master System, Sega Gamegear, Turbografx, and NeoGeo Pocket Color. I may be forgetting a system or two as well.

I can definitively check this evening.
Just as a side note, I absolutely loved the sega gamegear growing up, so its really neat to hear from someone who actually helped produce games for the system. That's rad! Are you ok with the idea of them being emulated? Just wanting to make sure I'm reading your post correctly as one of curiosity, and not dislike for the idea of what a retropie is.

Sadly I wasn't able to find a good collection of original gameboy roms to use, though I do very much enjoy the system. With my current button setup, I found that it wasn't set up well to emulate disc based games and N64 games, so I left those out.
Before I got into collecting arcade cabinets and pinball machines, I was very much into collecting retro video games. I collected for most the ones we have mentioned so far, with an emphasis on PS1 and N64, as those really represented my childhood. I actually collected a full North American release N64 set, as well as full NA virtual boy set as well. I still have a modest retro video game collection, but nothing too crazy compared to before.

I've played quite a few of those! That's awesome that you had a hand in making all of those happen. Just off the top of my head, Beetle Adventure Racing! on the N64 stands out, as I've put a decent amount of hours into that one. Thanks for sharing!

That’s how I got Star Wars trilogy. A good friend of mine wanted a fish tales, so I sold it to him so I could buy Star Wars trilogy from another friend. Then that friend is using his money from the sale of swt to buy a sttng. So in a round about way all three of us got pins from higher up on our wanted list.

Just finished getting color displays in the 5 pinball machines in my basement. Baywatch is xl led colordmd, monopoly is lcd colordmd, and super Mario Bros, Star Wars trilogy and T2 are all pin2dmd. Very happy with all 5.
I also have a robocop getting fixed up in the garage, which should make its way to the basement eventually too.

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They definitely do!
As for money, it wasn't too too bad. I was lucky that my baywatch came with the color dmd already in it. Monopoly's was a bit pricey. Super Mario Bros, SWT and T2 being pin2dmd weren't bad at all. I love all the displays, but when it comes to price, pin2dmd can't be beat.

Thanks, I appreciate the kind words! I'm not super skilled at pinball, so I tend to buy pins more based on theme than depth lol. But so far we are enjoying the current lineup a lot.

Thanks for sharing pics. I was looking at buying this exact rug, just in a different size. Seeing these pics makes me want it even more now.

I've used mini whiteboards with erasable markers for pins you can't enter initials for. You might have more luck finding neat whiteboards as opposed to chalk boards. Just a thought.