I'll take the challenge! - it's coming to my place, right?

A 6' ceiling doesn't sound too comfortable. I'm 6' even, and not sure if this would be trouble walking or not (obviously it would be a little claustrophobic) Playing pinball or relaxing on a couch would be fine. It sounds like a cool mancave with a shuffleboard in it other than the ceiling.

He is not a man of many words but I believe the point is how tempered glass breaks. It's extremely resistant of direct impacts (upset person smacking glass), but the corners are the week points.

I am 6'1", and stand between the beams. I had to find shorter legs to even get the game to fit.

Story: way back when my mom was a kid, my grandparents bought one of the big ol Victorians in mid town sac. Grandfather decided he did t want his kids running around that area, so he talked with a friend in the Coinop/bar business, and bought a bunch of stuff: shuffleboard and em scorer for it (both still there) a pol table that was over 100 years old when they bought it (still down there, believed to have been made in 1850), 4-5 pinballs (all gone), a big ball bowler (gone, but happened when I was maybe 10 years old), and a pitch and bat and a shooting gallery (both still down there). All were purchased sometime between 1955-1966 (not all bought at once). Over the years when they broke they got thrown away (years before the Internet made repair and parts sourcing relatively easy). Luckily they never tossed the pitch and bat or the shooting gallery. As family got older, us grandkids played with what was left, and now it is great grandkids.

Best part: grandma stil has paperwork for the games that are left. Shooting gallery has been down there since 62, and the pitch and bat since late 66. The pitch and bat has been bullet proof until recently, and the gallery was broken for most of my life until about 3 years ago when I seriously started working on it. But now I don't have time to get over there and really finish it up

Great story! Hope my great grand kids have similar stories some day.

If you really need a hand moving, send me a pm when the time comes.

I probably will, but for the sake of everyone involved will remove the head, possibly the pf as well

My son is selling his TSPP. Any Norcal interest? Will deliver locally (no steps!)

Please feel free to offer guidance on price re: condition and location. It has been played and commented on by BAPA members(see link):

Here is the Market link:

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/ad/18471

Thanks - HJB

X-men pro forsale price reduced now includes vid of pin.
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/custom-xmen-forsale

that was fun got me itching for PAGG now. that TOM is soooo nice.

Willie does awesome work. PAGG is upon us. Can't wait to hang with the fellas

Willie does fantastic work and just a great guy! cant wait to see him and the rest of you pinheads at pagg.
Harley D.

That pin looked amazing. I really enjoyed his used of leds. Nothing too distracting. Great set up too for work.

Thanks again to Willie for the invite and great to meet skill_shot and practicalsteve.

Next time I'll bring beers

Anyone in Nor Cal into slot machines? I have a pirate themed one full of "quarter" sized tokens

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If anyone is interested I can try and swing a trip up North and bring it with me

nice comments guys, TY
But seriously, what I'm doing is inspired by what many people are doing in this hobby and on here.
TOM will be going to a new home and wont be making it to PAGG, unless D.A. wants to bring it
Up next in queue is Jims TAF
Steve thanks for delivering Diner back to me
Skilly, Always fun having you around
anubis, nice to meet you bro, ill come check out that metallica soon
See you all at PAGG

It's been about a year, so maybe they're all gone, but last time I was there, machines in the big arcade, a couple next to the mini golf, 4 or 5 in the pool area above the mini golf, and a few across the street in the bowling alley. All in poor shape.

They were decent titles, though: Tron, ACDC, LOTR, TSPP, Sopranos, SWE1, CSI, SM, POTC, TAF, Monopoly T3, Elvis, Hurricane...off the top of my head.

I was at Neptune's Arcade today. There are still pins upstairs, it'd be a good number of pretty good titles, if they were working better. I can say, I go here pretty often, at least once a month. I go for Tron. It always seems to be working. Plus I love Tron.

PS, no more tokens, you load a card.

I just listed my POTC for trade:
https://pinside.com/pinball/market/ad/18602

I'm mainly interested in trades for AC/DC or ToM.

I heard from a buddy that they have a twd in pretty good shape, if you're going down there maybe all of us Santa Cruz guys could do a mini hang out before pagg

It's been a while since I updated about the Hyperball. I have it working electronically now, except for still no sound. The stuff that I did that had an impact included changing the Bridge Rectifiers, changing male and female 40 pin interconnects, re-pinning a connector and re-socketing the roms. I also did a bunch of stuff that didn't have in impact, including rebuilding the entire reset circuit . I have changed the CPU and the PIA on the soundboard and resocketed the rom and it still doesn't work (even with test rom) so I now suspect the 6810 ram. Mechanically is seems to work pretty well. Random switches work, shooter works. The thing that doesn't work is the ball auger, but I am hopeful it will stop jamming if I clean it good.

I was at the boardwalk's main arcade a few months back. The machines were in bad need of maintenance. Weak flippers, broken sensors in scoops. Eventually ball seek would get you going again..

Shuffles magical ice cream shop in Santa Rosa now has pinball games. Roadshow and Funhouse,(owner picked) hopefully more in the future.

Anyone in the Concord area have a used Alltek Ultimate MPU board I can borrow/rent/buy? I sent my MPU for repair and it won't be back until End of April. I'd like to play my Embryon if possible.

Thanks,

Rob Bell
Robsgameroom.com

Anyone have a system 11 project pin for sale or trade? Ive been wanting to get into my first project pin and general consensus seems to be to make that a system 11, looking for anything from player to project

Check out my marketplace ad for my Spider-Man. It's a peach!

https://pinside.com/pinball/market/ad/18677

I'd love to see it go to someone local. Price is fairly negotiable.

I have an Alltek board you can borrow Rob, come by and get it.

Steve

Just sent you a message Steve. Call me. Thanks!

Rob

Steve and Cliffy were the first two people I met with when I first got into pinball back in 1999. Not a shabby duo if I say so myself!!! Both are outstanding gentlemen and showed me the ropes of this hobby.

I have a comet that has some mysterious issues.

Steve is a jerk. He has way too many fun games that he graciously let me play on more than one occasion.

Because of him, I had to hunt down 2 system 80a games, and keep the damn things working.

Don't visit him unless you want to be introduced to a handful of games that you will want to own.

I've been working on the pinball lineup at Scandia in Fairfield over the past 6 months. Taking them from 2 pins (Nascar & Avengers) to 7 pins (added Scared Stiff, Cirqus Voltaire, Ironman VE, NBA Fastbreak, Revenge From Mars) and keeping up on the maintenance. I'm there Mondays and Fridays. I know many people gave up on their pins a long time ago. Time to put it back on the destination list.

Pins are loud enough to hear them, and have longer ball savers (than factory settings). Just a head's up that they're all set to auto-launch after 60 seconds of inactivity. If someone is interested in running a tournament there, PM me.

-TJ

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Nice work TJ.

TJ does a great job and has resurrected Scandia! Thanks bro
Harley D.

What about Bob?

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That's it I'm gonna have to visit that Scandia

I'm hosting an Easter egg hunt/pinball tournament at Hi-Life Pizza (400 15th Street) in downtown this Sunday, April 5th. Entry fee is $20 and start time is 1pm.

Players will collect Easter eggs hidden around Hi-Life and find their tournament matches inside. When all the egg matches are completed, the twelve players who have won the most matches will advance to open playoffs. There will also be B division playoffs for the top eight players who didn't make open playoffs and who have a world pinball player ranking no better than 1000. We'll have awards and cash prizes for 1st-4th in each division. This event will award WPPR points.

Participation in the tournament is limited to 40 players, and pre-registration is required for anyone who wants to play. Get more details about the venue and format here, or click here to register for the tournament. At this point, there are 12 spots open.

FYI Phoenix Games in concord is in a new location and it is a huge upgrade. They have room for the owner's whole collection to be playable by the public. Their current roster:

Godzilla
World Cup Soccer '94
Walking dead pro
Wheel of Fortune
Sega star wars
Scared stiff
Frankenstein
Tales from the crypt
Mousing around
Twilight Zone
Funhouse
Championship pub

There are like 10 golden ages vids too. They have room for more as well. New location is a block down Clayton next to IHoP

Dont forget Metallica LE!

Didn't see Metallica on the floor today.

Where is the new location for Phoenix Games?

4607 Clayton Rd.

Ooh, will have to try and check that out. Want to try WD and CP.

It's in my neck of the woods Keith (this is Pete by the way). Phoenix games is an awesome spot that now has an expanding line up of pins that was awesome to begin with. If you do come down let me know I'll try to head over there as well.