Woodbury, MN
I've been involved with a couple of the main pinball operators here locally for years and it has been a big problem historically from Wrestlemania through to Star Wars currently. At our huge Ghostbusters Launch Party that featured Ernie Hudson, 1 of the 3 Ghostbusters pins there was basically DOA almost right out of the box with a bad node board and that put us in a big bind with almost 500 people showing up. At the Minnesota State Fair a couple of years ago Wrestlemania was down for over half the fair with a board issue. Currently Star Wars at one of our biggest locations here is down with 3 bad node boards. There has been more issues than just those, but those obviously stand out to me. It seems like for a route operator here it isn't "if" a node board will fail it's just how fast is it going to happen. The fix has always been board replacement and that means waiting for one while the game is down and not making any money.
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