Quoted from RobW:Did you guys see this arcade for sale in the Delco area?
delaware.craigslist.org link
Interesting. Maybe the arcade in Booth's Corners?
Quoted from RobW:Did you guys see this arcade for sale in the Delco area?
delaware.craigslist.org link
Interesting. Maybe the arcade in Booth's Corners?
Quoted from ectobar:Interesting. Maybe the arcade in Booth's Corners?
Sounds like it.
Quoted from misterschu:No, never take pirates away! Please! I'm willing to give up halloween and bad cats!
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halloween (resized).pngOh and LUCKY SNAKE in Atlantic City recently dropped 60+ pins on the floor and trying to get them all running. A strange but time-spanning mix of titles with almost zero Bally/Williams WPC or System11 titles. Worth a look if down the shore...
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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/274277821347
Got sponsor for this event: RSVLTS!
Cool giveaways for every attending player!
Went Quakertown farmers market last week and
They took out Avengers IQ the rest of the lineups unchanged
Went to two places today
McAlisters in North Wales took out their pinball (teed off)
Reeses in Warminster replaced RollerGames with Police Force
Hey everyone - Just a quick update on Level Up Entertainment in Somers Point, NJ. The lease in our current spot was up, and we are looking to move to a more permanent location in Somers Point. In the meantime, we've moved our collection of games back over to our Hamilton Mall location in Mays Landing, NJ. This mall also features a great arcade with Starcade, so between the two spots, we probably have the most pinball machines under a NJ mall roof since the 80s! Hope to see you all soon if you stop by on your way to the shore this summer!
Might be time to make a day trip to AC. A Lucky Snake and Hamilton Mall combo would make for a pretty serious day of pinball.
Quoted from speederice:This mall also features a great arcade with Starcade, so between the two spots, we probably have the most pinball machines under a NJ mall roof since the 80s! Hope to see you all soon if you stop by on your way to the shore this summer!
Insert random nostalgia about Spaceport in Quakerbridge mall back in the 80s and pushing past the crowds playing the newest video games near the front to get to the army of classic pinballs hidden in the back. I still remember the day I discovered that the 60s era games had manually controlled troughs and you could put all 5 balls in play at once if you felt so inclined.
Quoted from Thekfb:Quakertown farmers market update 4/3/22
Stern Star Wars has been replaced by The Mandalorian Premium
Rush premium has been added
Stern JP Stranger Things premium and Batman 66 remain
Cool, I can play Rush on location.
4/24/22 - Mom's tourney in Abington PA will be a Pingolf format. 5 hours of qualifying starting at 11am EST. Top 8 make finals which should start around 4pm.
$10 per 10ish holes of pingolf. Each ticket you play is counted. If you play more than one, your entire golf scorecard will count.
It will be a lose and your out final.
Winner will get the beautifully designed golden apple. RSVLTs is sponsoring again so lots of freebies will be available.
Register ahead of time so I have a headcount: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/304468763267
Quoted from craif:Hyndman's Arcade @ the Berlin Farmer's Market a few minutes over the bridge in South Jersey added a Mando Pro to their lineup.
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Not that I needed an excuse to head over there again but this will do.
I no longer live in Pennsylvania but wanted to let everybody know that there is another Penn Skate Arcade tournament happening tonight at 7:00 (and every 4th Tuesday). Visit facebook.com/pennskatearcade for more info.
Was in the area so swung through Round 1 in center city to see if things improved at all since last fall.
Good News: Things improved.
Bad News: Still a ways to go.
I pointed out a few low hanging fruit to a mechanic. I'll check back in a few weeks and see if it helped.
Hyndman's at the Berlin Farmer's Market is changing ownership soon. Confirmed from multiple sources including the current owner Mark. From what I hear the pins are staying so I'm not panicking but I think this calls for some tribute.
I've been to Hyndman's with increasingly regularity over the last few years as many of my other haunts shut down, replaced their pins with newfangled stuff or just went to hell. It became a true lifelife post-pandemic and in the last 12 months I've been there almost every week after I discovered the location I've been able to walk to for 20 years replaced their last 3 pins with redemption machines.
I've encountered Mark a few times over the years emptying coin boxes or fixing machines. We know some of the same people but I don't know him personally. I always thought he must have an interesting story
The one thing I've known about him for a long time is that he runs a damn fine old school arcade like the kind I grew up in.
No frills. No redemption machines. No pounding music. No loyalty clubs. No food and drink. No tokens or swipe cards.
Just a dark room with fully stocked bill changers and packed with machines owned by someone that gives damn. The machines weren't always pretty but the setups were fair and when a ball got stuck or a flipper broke you didn't get that sinking feeling that it would stay that way forever.
A few weeks ago I had a day off from work so I headed out to play and found him working hard fixing machines. I hit upon a temperamental flipper on AIQ so I pointed it out to him and half-jokingly offered to fix it if he had the parts lying around. From the look he gave me I figured he thought I was crazy but later he showed up with a box of parts and asked if I could hold a flashlight for a moment. We got the flipper fixed along with a few other random things that can use an extra set of hands and interspersed with the typical shop talk I finally got to hear a bit of his story.
Turns out he's been running locations and fixing pins in Jersey for as long as I've been alive. Sometime in early 80s I encountered pinball and it quickly became a fascination that has followed me to this day. The exact location is long forgotten but it was somewhere in Jersey. I mentioned the first machine I actually remembered by name was Firepower. He had 20 at some point. It's a long shot but it's possible one of them was my pinball awakening. Who knows?
All this was on my mind when I headed out there last night for my weekly trip. I've never been a great player but I've improved quite a bit in the last year and a lot of that happened here. I guess those thoughts put me on point last night. Started with a new personal best on AIQ and following a few heartbreaks over the last few weeks the final game of the night reclaimed GC on Mando.
This is the way. Thanks Mark.
aiq (resized).jpgmando (resized).jpgI saw the arcade at booths corner seemed to be for sale too.
Visited Game On State in Media last week, six pins, buck rogers, elvira and the party monsters, shrek, avengers (2012), mandalorian, godzilla.
Needed some basic work and cleaning. Emailed the owners they said they've been trying to find someone to fix and appreciated being notified of the issues. They also said they got a Deadpool in, not sure if it replaced one of the other machines.
Quoted from craif:Turns out he's been running locations and fixing pins in Jersey for as long as I've been alive.
Bought my second machine off him in 1988 out of that Blackwood, NJ strip mall arcade he had, "Family Flippers." I'd go on to buy many games from him over the years and he taught me practical repair skills in a pre-internet age when coinop people intentionally didn't share knowledge due to competition. He's now retired and lost his wife not long ago. I drove many miles, past many other big arcades, to plays his games because there was always something new or different and everything worked - a big detail you don't immediately appreciate until you go other places that host more average upkeep practices. Operating games is risky, thankless and a great way to stay poor. This probably means the other locations where he had machines are also changing hands or being removed. A retirement from coinop well deserved and a small acknowledgement of the four decades of entertainment he provided around south jersey. He is still doing in-home repairs last time I talked to him.
Quoted from Thekfb:Quakertown farmers market update 4/3/22
Stern Star Wars has been replaced by The Mandalorian Premium
Rush premium has been added
Stern JP Stranger Things premium and Batman 66 remain
Just popped into QMart for an hour and a half to play some Rush Premium. Fun game and really my first time getting more than one game on this one.
Good news is I played that entire time for $2.00. Replays must be low or I was playing fairly well. Had to walk away with two credits still on the machine.
Bad news is the spinner shot is missing the spinner. Not sure if it broke and fell off or wasn't installed by Stern. Bummer as I can only imagine my scoring with the spinner.
Game plays kind of loose with lots of room to nudge. Actually found it pretty easy to shake balls out of the out lanes which I'm normally terrible at!
May need to stop there again tomorrow on my way back to Philly to get some more games in!
Quoted from deibert:Just popped into QMart for an hour and a half to play some Rush Premium. Fun game and really my first time getting more than one game on this one.
Good news is I played that entire time for $2.00. Replays must be low or I was playing fairly well. Had to walk away with two credits still on the machine.
Bad news is the spinner shot is missing the spinner. Not sure if it broke and fell off or wasn't installed by Stern. Bummer as I can only imagine my scoring with the spinner.
Game plays kind of loose with lots of room to nudge. Actually found it pretty easy to shake balls out of the out lanes which I'm normally terrible at!
May need to stop there again tomorrow on my way back to Philly to get some more games in!
When Rush first showed up there the spinner was there and worked. A few weeks later it stopped detecting hits. It's been removed entirely for at least 2 weeks. The record is noncollectable which breaks the gamewide combo system. Every mode/feature that involves shooting that lane is crippled or impossible. It's basically just a wood chopper as it is.
Quoted from craif:When Rush first showed up there the spinner was there and worked. A few weeks later it stopped detecting hits. It's been removed entirely for at least 2 weeks. The record is noncollectable which breaks the gamewide combo system. Every mode/feature that involves shooting that lane is crippled or impossible. It's basically just a wood chopper as it is.
This is disappointing! At first I wondered why that loop wasn't scoring. Didn't realize it didn't have a switch other than the missing spinner!
Still, even with that I managed 750M on one of my games, which I guess means there are still points available without spinnage.
There's also a Munster's LE at Q-Mart that I really enjoyed. The lower playfield is a cool addition.
According to another thread there may or may not be a Medieval Madness at an unknown comic book store location - details withheld for the safety of the op.......
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-do-i-convince-my-boss-to-get-a-pinball-machine
Quoted from pinzrfun:According to another thread there may or may not be a Medieval Madness at an unknown comic book store location - details withheld for the safety of the op.......
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/how-do-i-convince-my-boss-to-get-a-pinball-machine
Glancing at the thread I got the impression it's somewhere around DC. Did I miss something?
As for pinball machines in comic book shops the next level in the Hamilton Mall in NJ has a few pins so the idea is not unheard of. The staff members there say it gets them some traffic. I certainly bought a few things and I'd never have gone in there otherwise. It's a bit far to make a trip for 4 or 5 pins with so many larger collections closer to the city but they're fun, well maintained titles that are difficult to find on location and 50 cents a game. Starcade and their much larger collection is in the same mall so when I go there for a day pass I usually stop in for a few games of Deadpool or Ghostbusters first and usually walk out with a comic or something else.
Quoted from craif:Glancing at the thread I got the impression it's somewhere around DC. Did I miss something?
Ya, OP is a funny troll, truly incredible how many people took him seriously and got so worked up about it. I just added my post since it seemed like OP checked out and I wanted the fun to continue. The other guy added the MMR Royal Edition (or whatever it's called) also as a joke, i assume choosing that machine since it's such an expensive and rare machine...
Quoted from pinzrfun:According to another thread there may or may not be a Medieval Madness at an unknown comic book store location
But not in Philly area!
Quoted from craif:Hyndman's at the Berlin Farmer's Market is changing ownership soon. Confirmed from multiple sources including the current owner Mark. From what I hear the pins are staying so I'm not panicking but I think this calls for some tribute.
I've been to Hyndman's with increasingly regularity over the last few years as many of my other haunts shut down, replaced their pins with newfangled stuff or just went to hell. It became a true lifelife post-pandemic and in the last 12 months I've been there almost every week after I discovered the location I've been able to walk to for 20 years replaced their last 3 pins with redemption machines.
I've encountered Mark a few times over the years emptying coin boxes or fixing machines. We know some of the same people but I don't know him personally. I always thought he must have an interesting story
The one thing I've known about him for a long time is that he runs a damn fine old school arcade like the kind I grew up in.
No frills. No redemption machines. No pounding music. No loyalty clubs. No food and drink. No tokens or swipe cards.
Just a dark room with fully stocked bill changers and packed with machines owned by someone that gives damn. The machines weren't always pretty but the setups were fair and when a ball got stuck or a flipper broke you didn't get that sinking feeling that it would stay that way forever.
A few weeks ago I had a day off from work so I headed out to play and found him working hard fixing machines. I hit upon a temperamental flipper on AIQ so I pointed it out to him and half-jokingly offered to fix it if he had the parts lying around. From the look he gave me I figured he thought I was crazy but later he showed up with a box of parts and asked if I could hold a flashlight for a moment. We got the flipper fixed along with a few other random things that can use an extra set of hands and interspersed with the typical shop talk I finally got to hear a bit of his story.
Turns out he's been running locations and fixing pins in Jersey for as long as I've been alive. Sometime in early 80s I encountered pinball and it quickly became a fascination that has followed me to this day. The exact location is long forgotten but it was somewhere in Jersey. I mentioned the first machine I actually remembered by name was Firepower. He had 20 at some point. It's a long shot but it's possible one of them was my pinball awakening. Who knows?
All this was on my mind when I headed out there last night for my weekly trip. I've never been a great player but I've improved quite a bit in the last year and a lot of that happened here. I guess those thoughts put me on point last night. Started with a new personal best on AIQ and following a few heartbreaks over the last few weeks the final game of the night reclaimed GC on Mando.
This is the way. Thanks Mark.
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I absolutely share your enthusiasm / initial concern for the location. Great spot, great machines, and a great crew which will be missed. It’s nice to hear the new owners are still interested in keeping machines there.
Can you send me their contact info if you have it? I’d like to help them in anyway possible to maintain/expand Hyndman’s quality as a pinball location.
Went to Pikes Pub in Southampton
they replaced Lord of the Rings with Batman 66 it played ok, a little worn and sometimes it sent out 2 balls instead of one on one playthrough
Also haven't been to Quakertown Market recently, but according to pinball map
Kiss pro was added
Quoted from yaggy:Toy Story 4 (LE) now available for play on location at Barcade Fishtown.
Did it replace something or just added?
I'm out of town for the week, but I'll definitely be by to try it soon.
Quoted from ectobar:Did it replace something or just added?
I'm out of town for the week, but I'll definitely be by to try it soon.
hopefully it replaced halloween
Quoted from ectobar:Did it replace something or just added?
I'm out of town for the week, but I'll definitely be by to try it soon.
Glancing at pinballmap TS4 is there and Halloween is still listed. I don't see Wonka but I'm not sure if that's a recent change.
Quoted from Thekfb:Also haven't been to Quakertown Market recently, but according to pinball map
Kiss pro was added
Kiss replaced JP Pro a few weeks back but it might be a different trim. Person who told me didn't catch which it was but figured that was better than having the wrong game listed entirely. If someone knows I can update it.
Quoted from ccotenj:consider my arm appropriately twisted...
i may need a designated driver...
edit: showed swmbo that picture... sadly, i'm going to have to limit my consumption because hers will be large...
Make it an overnighter, find a budget hotel nearby and uber over so you can both enjoy to indulge in the brews!
Quoted from craif:Glancing at pinballmap TS4 is there and Halloween is still listed. I don't see Wonka but I'm not sure if that's a recent change.
i was there last week, wonka was there, looks like TS4 replaced wonka.
Quoted from ectobar:Did it replace something or just added?
I'm out of town for the week, but I'll definitely be by to try it soon.
Not sure it replaced anything, though I can't remember the lineup prior. Haven't been to Barcade in a while. Was surprised with the slight remodel and raised area in the arcade. All but two pins now on right side wall by windows.
Got about 12 games in... Toy Story shoots well but the call outs (shoot right ramp, shoot left ramp, shoot woody, shoot everything) and objectives were kind of confusing.
Jump ramp is fun.
Balls spend a lot of time in pop area.
Flippers, much like all JJP games, felt weak and spongy.
I think Rush is much more fun.
just got back from round 1, most games are in better condition than they've been in a while. Didn't check the code revisions but nothing stood out to me as being particularly old as far as I could tell.
Guardians of the Galaxy was in good shape, played well, might have a trough issue though as getting the add-a-ball during Groot put all 6 balls into play.
Star Wars - front up post in the loop doesn't raise, meaning you can't do video mode, and can't use either hoth or death star to start modes, you can get around this by using Endor or Tatooine but if you finish both Endor and Tatooine you will not be able to progress any further. The mode called Escape from Mos Eisley (Tatooine II) cannot be completed without that shot functioning correctly (even draining you'll continue to be in this mode). Not sure whether some of the characters start with this mode spotted.
Iron Maiden - Flippers have a lot of slop but they are powerful enough to hit all the shots. Game played well, didn't notice any issues other the flippers needing a rebuild.
Munsters - Spot is stuck in the raised position basically ruining an already bad game more.
Jurassic Park - Raptor area doesn't work at all. Leaned to the left. played well overall.
Black Knight Sword of Rage - Leaned to the right. Played well.
Quoted from misterschu:just got back from round 1, most games are in better condition than they've been in a while. Didn't check the code revisions but nothing stood out to me as being particularly old as far as I could tell.
Guardians of the Galaxy was in good shape, played well, might have a trough issue though as getting the add-a-ball during Groot put all 6 balls into play.
Star Wars - front up post in the loop doesn't raise, meaning you can't do video mode, and can't use either hoth or death star to start modes, you can get around this by using Endor or Tatooine but if you finish both Endor and Tatooine you will not be able to progress any further. The mode called Escape from Mos Eisley (Tatooine II) cannot be completed without that shot functioning correctly (even draining you'll continue to be in this mode). Not sure whether some of the characters start with this mode spotted.
Iron Maiden - Flippers have a lot of slop but they are powerful enough to hit all the shots. Game played well, didn't notice any issues other the flippers needing a rebuild.
Munsters - Spot is stuck in the raised position basically ruining an already bad game more.
Jurassic Park - Raptor area doesn't work at all. Leaned to the left. played well overall.
Black Knight Sword of Rage - Leaned to the right. Played well.
I had been dreading swinging through there to follow up. Thanks for saving me the trip! The problems on JP and SW have been present (at least) a year. I reported them and other problems to various mechanics and managers last summer. When I was there 2 months ago the other problems had been fixed so I had some hope and reported those 2 again but it doesn't sound like it helped. I don't remember spot being stuck on Munsters when I was there.
You're right that maiden is playable but it's mostly a tribute to the particular worker at stern that assembled it and the relative lack of stuff that can break on Maiden pro. As far as I can tell it's never received any maintenance. There's early signs of dry rot in some of the rubbers at this point and the shooter->loop.
From a few I've been to and comments about others on pinball map it sounds like maintenance is a near universal problem for round1 company-wide. After the games are installed they're just allowed to degrade. A few of them seem to have one hero mechanic who holds it together for awhile but eventually they all fade away.
It just seems crazy to me that they have millions of dollars worth of Stern's flung all over the country but apparently nobody who plays pinball. There's 6 machines at most locations that have them and it'll be the first/only exposure to pinball for a lot of new players. Maybe it's time for the Stern Army to do some nation building just to protect their image.
Quoted from ectobar:Willow Park Grove Mall getting some pins next year
https://www.phillyvoice.com/willow-grove-park-mall-indoor-entertainment-center-tilted-10-2022/
"Tilted 10 will feature more than 200 games and attractions at its two-level, 104,000-square-foot entertainment center. They include a bowling alley, a multi-level laser tag arena, black-light mini golf, bumper cars, virtual reality and a pinball arcade"
News on this dried up for awhile but 2 weeks ago someone asked on their facebook page if it was still happening and the response from tilted was "Opening this Winter."
Philly Pinball Club is back.
Weekly League Play starts Monday, July 18th 7:30pm at Barcade.
https://phillypinballclub.com/
PPC (resized).pngSaturday, September 3rd: Mom's Tournaments return with a BANG: Mom's Matchplay Madness
https://pinside.com/pinball/events/mom-s-matchplay-madness-2022
Is Haddon Heights close to Philly??? Looking for locations for my 16 year old nephew to play while he is visiting his father in Haddon Heights NJ for the next 4-6 weeks. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!!!
Quoted from Pickle:Is Haddon Heights close to Philly??? Looking for locations for my 16 year old nephew to play while he is visiting his father in Haddon Heights NJ for the next 4-6 weeks. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!!!
Looks like it's about 25 minutes away. So not bad, however, the only place worth going in Philly for pinball is the Barcade, which he can't get into.
PinballMap shows a couple locations close to Haddon with a couple pins each.
Hydman's Arcade is probably the best bet in NJ. Also about 20 minutes from Haddon Heights.
The best answer would be the Pinball Gallery in Malvern PA. It's about an hour from HH.
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