That was me.

Hello. I'm Bob. Nice to kind of meet you.

Pinball Gallery got their Hobbit in this past Friday. Spotted Koi Morris there last night.

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He made the most of that all day pass.

I was there 2-5 playing it with him.

Inital Hobbit impression: Beautiful pin, but kind of boring game play.

Nice score, gives me something to shoot for when I finally make it there. May even take me four or five games to knock it down.

I vote for the Railroad as well, the Cajun Meatloaf Grilled Cheese is the bomdigi

I 2nd this as well; guy who owns this place is super nice, amazing selection of pins...Right on route 30; actually closer to the city than the Railroad.

Bring it on buddy.

If nothing else, we just need to eliminate RED's initials from all the pins.

Speaking of. I met RED this week.
He approached me while I was playing GoT. He saw the lockdown bar button lit up and offered to hit it while I was playing. I kindly told him I was a big boy and could handle my own buttons.

After the game, chatted with him a little bit.
He is definitely holding on to some resentment of deibert's play.
Here's a quote: "There's this one guy who comes in here and throws the machines around. Still sucks though. He should just learn how to play and stop trying to cheat."

I told him there was a tilt bob in the machine for a reason so it's not cheating. Also told him to look up some video of the top tourney players and he would absolutely see people shaking machines.

I think he's just bitter he can't properly shake a pin because he sits on a stool while playing.

In any case, he was way too proud of having his initials in ST, so basically it's my new hobby to take him down. Only played a couple games, and I haven't beaten his cheesy ass 200mil high score yet, but I absolutely will.

That ST is angry though. As lame as a score as 200 mil is, it's not too shabby on that particular pin. The tilt is super sensitive. Which normally isn't that big a deal if you know about it, but the kickout from the mission start shot is brutal. It wants to bounce off the top of the sling and bounce into the right out lane every time. I know there are people on pinside that claim that the kickouts on their pros are nice and go to the left flipper every time, but I've never encountered a pro like that. Anyway, I'll be erasing his initials soon.

Lastly, he mentioned GoT is getting a ticket dispenser next week.

I really need to get there once someone is working the counter. A bag of tokens costs 300 tickets. I have receipts for 2000+ tickets in my car.

He mentioned it was also getting reset soon. He said it doesn't award EB's and mentioned another issue. In any case, once it lets the initials in, it's on.

Not sure as I've never actually cashed in any tickets for anything other than a candy bar. But last I checked, you can see them in the bottom row of the glass case and it looked to be a decent amount. RED mentioned that he basically doesn't ever have to pay to play anymore.

Got him!

Stopped in for a couple games at lunch and was able to make it happen.

Didn't get far past KM. I think I was in the 3rd mode past it on the GC game.
With that tight tilt and sloppy kickout, I was definitely playing with a modified game plan.
Went with a just try to get the spinner value up, and let modes by start by accident or with MB's strategy. Worked out well enough.

Got some ticket/coinage intel as well.

Talked to the guy working and he opened up the shop for me.
Traded in 457 tickets for 15 tokens. So roughly 30 tickets a coin.
Additionally, they have a card you can save your points on. The guy scanned all my receipts and put them on the card for me. I'm basically on pinball free play for a while now...unless I save up and get that hoverboard.

Spinner rules as far as I know are:

Starts at 2k.
Increases by ? every time you spell trek.
Maxes out at 68k.
Resets every ball. However, once you get it to 20k, it resets to 20k each ball. So it's very much to your advantage to get it to 20k on your first ball.
If you get Super Spinner going, its worth 75k for X hits.

Your situation sounds like you had Super Spinner running going into KM, and once you got out of it, you were back to whatever your regular spinner value was.

Keep an eye on your spinner value. You can check it in the instant info. You can also see your spinner value when you hit the spinner on the dmd. If I have a slowish spinner shot that will most likely hang in the pops, I'm looking at the dmd to check my value.

When you have the spinner at 68 or 75k, a good hit is usually in the 1mil ballpark.

There are still bugs lurking in the code though, so I'll pay attention to my pin at home later and report back.

This University pinball place looks like a cool destination for my family day trip this weekend. While we are over that way we are going to visit. Do they have parking at the facility or do you have to find parking elsewhere? Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks

On the street directly in front of the place, its free street parking. In the surrounding blocks, it's metered parking for 2-3 hours. Free parking can be difficult to come by, metered parking usually isn't too bad.

Does anybody know of any good pinball locations in the Lehigh Valley area? I'm moving to the area and only know about what is on the Pin Map. I've already checked out Pincrossing and I'm aware of Pinball Parlour, Pinball Gallery, and Earl Bowl Lanes. But what about more so in the Allentown/Bethlehem area? I see some bars with one pin on location at each in the Allentown area. Anything like that in Bethlehem. Based on where I'm moving, I'd imagine Bethlehem is where I'd be going out at night and would love to find some small bars with a machine or two in the back. Any help is appreciated!

S&S speedway has a handful of tables. last i remember TZ roadshow black rose and the rest i can't remember LOL

I've been in the Philly area for about a year now. I'd like to find a pinball league. I used to be in a league in Cleveland that rotated playing at people's homes private collections. I really enjoyed it and would like to find a similar group in Buck's or Montgomery County area. If anyone know's of a group that's open to new people, post or PM. Thanks!

Looks like S&S is north of LV. You wouldn't happen to know of any bar type places a little closer would you? I found a WOF at a random bar in Bethlehem once. I'm trying to find more places like that where I could go have a beer and play some pinball.

The only league that I'm aware of is the one at the Railroad Street Bar and Grille in Linfield. You mentioned Bucks County, that is actually where I'll be moving to! I don't have any machines (yet). But once I do, maybe we can get a private collection league going in a year or so. But since it sounds like we are in the area, feel free to reach out. I'm moving in two weeks and would love to meet local pinball enthusiasts.

Railroad Street Bar and Grille, A.K.A. Pincrossing (Linfield, PA) has a weekly league on Wednesday nights at 7pm. Last night was Week 1 of the Spring League, but it runs for 10 weeks and new players are always welcome, even mid-season. We had about 30 players in the Winter League. Plus, the food and drinks are great. There's also a monthly tournament that is usually on the second Saturday, but sometimes shifted to the third Saturday to avoid events like PAPA (April).

https://www.facebook.com/Pincrossing/

Pinball Gallery (Malvern, PA) runs three regular leagues a year, and the next one (I think) will be either end of May or start of June. They're kicking off a women's league now that will run through the end of May. They also host monthly tournaments on the first Tuesday of the month, and this upcoming Friday (April 1) they are having a Hobbit Launch Party.

http://www.pinballgallery.net/

It's worth adding that Pincrossing also has a month long super selfie league as well that runs monthly.

I think Molly's Irish Grille in Bethlehem has WOF. That's all I know, unfortunately.

My wife joined that women's league at Pinball Gallery, she's been having a blast. I'm stuck on night shift this quarter so no love for me but I'd like to jump in the mix at Pincrossing once it's an option.

You should see it during the music festival! From your description I knew exactly where you were talking about.

I figured I would let everyone know that Xfinity Live has an Avengers Pro.

You play it? Condition? Is it the Automated one that used to be at North Bowl?

I did not see it until I was leaving so I did not play it or even get an up close look.

Hi, this is Manny from Lights Out Pinball located at 2578 West Maple Avenue, Feasterville PA 19053. Our pay to play showroom will be opening the last week of May. We have 50 pinball machines and many arcade games . We will have everything on free play, and you will be able to pay by the hour, month, year, etc. We will also be hosting pinball leagues and tournaments. Along with the grand opening of the showroom, we will be introducing our pinball machine parts and mods store. We are an LED distributor, and the exclusive distributor of Convolux fluorescent protective plastics(fluorescent plastics for over 100 games in 4 colors per game, check them out at our website) . We will also have mods, rubber pinball parts , mirror blades, speaker systems , and many other upgrades for sale . We will also be launching our website this week , LIGHTSOUTPINBALL.COM. All customers through May will receive 10% off LED bulbs purchases made on our site for life !!
We will be vending in Allentown this week... It is our first show.

Feel free to give me a call with any questions.
Manny
215-840-3147
President
Lights Out Pinball
LIGHTSOUTPINBALL.COM

We'll look forward to meeting you at Allentown, Manny. I will only be there Friday as my work schedule has gone to five-ball-multiball mode lately but hey, such is life. OT pays for more pins at my house so I'm not complaining.

Bump. Saw the Lights Out display at Allentown but didn't manage to catch ya - looked good though, will be glad to check your showroom out when it's open.

Also, Pinball Gallery in Malvern has expanded yet again so if you haven't been out in a while you'll be blown away. I saw somebody shooting video or taking pix so I'd imagine you'll hear/see more soon but yeah, it's legit.

Someone just updated the pinmap for Loco Pez in Fishtown. Says they have a GB pro! Good stuff. Some tacos and ghost busting are definitely in my near future.

New machines I've noticed on route include Fireball II and Corvette at Pincrossing and Joker Poker and Tron over at Pinball Gallery.

Put some games on GB @ loco Pez last night.

Some thoughts:

Initial impression is that it's a gorgeous pin, and is fun to shoot. Most of the shots are satisfying to hit because most of them are on the tight side and you have to earn it. Left ramp seemed to be the easiest to hit, right ramp is a bear to hit.

There has been some chatter about lack of multiballs, and I can see that. My wife and I put about 15 games on the pin. I was able to start Storage facility mb 3 or 4 times, wife never got one started. Will say that the light show when you start Storage is very cool.

The drop targets are evil. As in total brick city, wouldn't go down with a solid direct hit evil. We quickly learned to avoid shooting for them.

Slimer hits didn't seem to always register, and we had a few that hit him so hard that the ball shot back down the playfield over the flippers for a drain.

Unfortunately the location was very loud, so I couldn't really hear the game too well which was a bummer. The few sounds I did hear were fun. Am definitely going to go back and play at a less busy time.

Managed to put up the GC score with about 500mil.

In regards to the location.

The pin is located next to the kitchen door all the food comes out. We went for dinner and were definitely in everyone's way. Would recommend not going during the dinner rush. After dinner, around 830, the room GB was in was basically empty.

Had some tacos, chips and salsa. None were particularly exciting. Not bad, but were very small and for $3/taco, I would expect a little more. Definitely better tacos to be had elsewhere in the city. Didn't order them, but saw a bunch of nachos come out. They looked massive and delicious. Would probably order them next time.

seen a TX @ pinball gallery and sea witch is back too.

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Yeah Seawitch keeps moving around and TX was missing for a week or two but both of them have been there a while. The TX needs a little TLC but that Seawitch is really nice - and your pic reminded me, Hot Doggin' is a recent addition as well.

Also going to throw this out there. If you like EMs the arcade at St. Peters Village is great. 2 games for 25c on most of the pinball machines and they have to have about 20 or so. Plus they have some other awesome EM driving and shooting games.

Give them a call before you stop by as the hours can vary: (610) 469-0941

Here is their Tripadvisor link: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g53608-d4736879-Reviews-Village_Arcade-Saint_Peters_Pennsylvania.html

Almost always noon to 5pm, Saturday & Sunday. Pinsiders are welcome to stop by my house and smoke a few beers before/during/after, just hit me up.

Wife's a smartass.

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I was thinking about swinging over to Railroad Street around 1:30

I'm there now & will buy the first round. Everything but TX is up today.

Thanks for the beer! I owe you one next time I see you there.

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Just throwing this out there to gauge interest at this point. But would anybody be interested in doing a tournament in Philly? I was talking to emkay yesterday about how I was surprised that all of the tournaments out here are outside of the city. I'm not necessarily thinking about a reoccurring tournament at this point, just a one off. I have a few ideas for formats and would just need to determine the right location and base format off of number of machines.

I'm new to the area and don't know enough players in the area to gauge interest in person. But if there are enough pinsiders onboard, I'd look into doing something later this summer.

Thoughts?

Haha anytime man. I love the interest in tourneys and leagues but until I get past these rock star hours I've been working, I'll probably only surface on rare occasions. =)

Few local bars I know had pins the last time I was there , Smeegy's bar in Northeast had a TWD pro, and Steam bar in Upper Southampton,Pa had a IM. Its sad even the bowling alley's don't even have pins anymore in my area.

Earl Bowl in Earlington & Earl bowl in Quakertown both have pins.