Outrun mini (vid), and probably two pins not including what is being returned to me from people who are borrowing them or what I am buying there. I believe I'm taking three and returning with minimally 7 this year.

Luckily, I may have found a basement to put them into. That is actually mine. Where I could set them up.

Maybe I'll bring my Alvin G Magic Castle and the two of them can go side by side

If it doesn't have any scoring issues, I'm down!

Please don't sell the turtles before my 6 year old gets to play it a couple times

By the way, for those of you bringing games, if the game is still there at 5pm on Sunday, we're going to have a little surprise for everyone...

...and, the party is getting better! More news soon! (I need to clone myself, this is freaking crazy!!)

That would be two Fish Tales and then we could put Fish Tales in the tournament instead of Metallica if you guys are cool with that

Trying to find a not-Metallica game to put in again, although Metallica is awesome, so...

Yeah, talked about TX.

Fish Tales with one cleared and one not doesn't seem like the greatest idea either. I need a double of something!

Speaking of which, anyone have a solid Joker Poker too? Exploring some more old school options. Or heck, we'd use Joker Poker and another older option as a third...

I'm open to changing it up and I'm only really married to one newer game (not Metallica ) but I need a solid double soon, or it will be Metallica by default of us having a pair there...

I am all for Iron Man but we can't lose 100% of them at noon. Theoretically, if we can get to 12:30 on them and we have one left (I think we could get one other one of them to the show), then that would work. I need one to go past 12:30.

I have one, but it has an issue and because it's away until the show, there is no way I can address it until I get it back after I move into my house... in May. :-/

Oh, and actually Addams might work, I know of one more at least, and hell... might be able to get another on hand...

I have one, but mine is an early game that had a skip ramp in the center that ejects the ball back down the center with a clean shot about 15% of the time. I don't mind it at all, but it wouldn't work as a double.

TAF might work, if Chris has two, I am pretty certain I have one more that could come and then we can leave that one in the tournament when Chris needs to leave. If things are on schedule, at that time we'll have only two four player teams playing, and then need to play all three games once so no one should need to be doubled up on anything, and they can double up on the newer game that will be used and we will keep two of until the end of the show, so we'll have TAF -> New game -> Old Game for one group and Old Game -> New Game -> TAF for the other.

Hell, it would be awesome to have 3 TAFs in qualifying because I am pretty sure I can get 3 of the new game, then I just need to figure out if I can get a double of an older game. The games that I have been entertaining using for that so far I just have one of. Oh hell, I'll just ask: Anyone have any doubles in great shape of any of these:

4 Square, 3 Coins, Joker Poker

All three are being considered for the older game (I'm leaning toward 4 Square, although I understand that as a single player it's not perfect). If not, anyone have any other nasty old games? I'd love a pair of Paragons too... but my older games that I can bring one of are sadly very limited at the moment.

Darn move to the new place.

In thinking about this a little more this morning, because entries are limited and in the finals you never know which machine you're going to get, playing only the "good" machine in qualifying might be bad for finals, so unless I hear anyone who strongly feels otherwise, I'm okay with this.

Chris -for TAF, if you bring one of them still, I have something up my sleeve that I might ask if you can do with one. I'll give you details in a bit

You sound sort of similar to me, except it's usually like "bringing one there, buying five, sending three home with friends and figuring out how to get three back."

I'd love the older game for the tournament to have a double if possible. Anyone willing to bring a second Harlem Globetrotters or Paragon?

Let's go with Harlem! Any other doubles, or I'm thinking Harlem, FT and ...

Luckily, my wife kind of knew what she was getting in for, event though we met when we were 17.

As for being broke, I've also been very lucky to get into a lot of what I love before it spiked like crazy in prices. Seems what I decide to collect in a few years becomes worth much, much more than when I get into it. I actually feel like I've drastically cut down buying, but the MGC I always seem to find something to exit with. This year, I think I'm coming with 2 machines and leaving with either 3 or 4, so it's a pretty calm year. Should be, I'm buying a house a month later :-/

I laughed so hard that I cried.

When you have had no sleep and you don't have a chance for sleep for another week, and then you're one week away from the show that you're going to run... Yeah... Easily amused.

I might know someone who wants the Tales...

Oh yeah, and I think Mystery Castle is going to take a year off. Sound board wasn't playing music and then it started working but now Gane is constantly resetting. Not sure if I'll have time to look at it or not.

Ill bring something else if we need it.

If the Fish Tales are confirmed here, yes - I'm like a day behind on everything at the moment, so... anyone want to just tell me? Need an extra day of life right now...

There is another game doubled for the tournament, I'm set. I'll announce the games soon enough on the site.

And seriously, thanks guys. With all of the random stuff going on in my life right now (most of it great, but just crazy) I appreciate the back up.

You don't need to bring two TAFs

Lift it up and slam it down! (JUST KIDDING!)

If you know you aren't going to be around, there are lots of volunteers who are both trustworthy and available to hold onto your keys for you. When I used to bring like 15 machines, I used to pass off my keys and not get to see my games due to running around at the show, and they kept on top of unsticking balls or turning them off if something bad happened.

Holy crap, you just channeled me exactly.

Right now, extra presale dollars are going into additional tent heaters :-/ Not the most glorious thing to be spending the money on, but better than playing board games in a 60 degree tent. Stupid weather - 70 yesterday, snowed today.

My son has recently informed me that he is over TMNT and into Star Wars now, so no worries

While there is a number of people who had this happen to here, our cancellation rate is so much lower than in years past it's interesting. It's a number that I track, and for hotel rooms and stuff like that, the rate is generally around 3% during the last few months leading into the show. This year the churn is currently at about 0.5%.

As for games breaking down, it's the nature of owning games. It's why we can't go to the location that told me we would have to know exactly which machines would be coming two months in advance - even if everyone told us that early, there is no way to guarantee anything. I'm happy with anything that anyone is bringing, and I know just how much work goes into anything that arrives!

According to them, because they would also have to set up your games (you wouldn't be able too), they need to make sure it's approved.

They are nuts. There is a reason (and this is one of many!) that we have a tent instead of a larger venue... But I'm mostly okay with that. Other than the heat, which good God that's expensive...

Find me late Saturday night if I'm still standing, and I'll tell you all stories.

Hey, at least we talked them down from more than a cool quarter mil for electrical cost, which was the original stumbling block for years.

Then they also told me we needed to sell 500 rooms at their partner hotels at $400 per night. Which, while we do sell more than 500 rooms, no one in their right mind would pay $400 / night. :-/

Stuff like this is always shocking, but it helps people understand why until we do final cash count I'm always nervous that I'm going to need to hock my car...

I'll put it this way - we just added 3 new heaters because of the weather. They do have additional capacity. The cost to rent them set them up and rig the distribution boxes for them, NOT including the cost for the propane for them, is expected to be $3000.

Now, I don't have an exact break down of every heater we're going to have on that thing, but we're using 17 total.

We'll find out exactly how much propane it needs to heat a 24,000 square foot area for three days costs on Monday or Tuesday. :-/

I *think* we'll be okay (yay, strong sales today!) but it's definitely nerve racking and I'm a little more worried about this year than last.

Bring cash and show up slightly after 10am. Cash line always moves super fast - probably faster than pre-orders once it gets moving. It's why we start taking pre-orders an hour early.

You can try the door near the pinball hall usually around 10:30 there isn't much of a line there... but like I said, cash only there. Credit does take longer.

The arcade hall is Q, R, S and T basically. Food is at J or P. There is seating scattered around, the best places are the speaking hall (also P) and the table top areas. I'd suggest just planning to drop by some speeches or play a few table top games. If you don't know how, there are people to teach you!

Hope that helps!

It's unlabeled on the map because we try driving traffic away from there (we can't take pre-orders there), but it's basically at S.

All new games will be playable until 5pm on the show floor.

When did you pull it out? I have literally heard of no one not getting checked this year, and most people loving how it was done.

...the guy who did the bid for the security company is the son of a collector who has brought machines for ages

Just to add this...

You CAN get out without a card. You just need one of the arcade guys to confirm it's yours with the original sheet. It took a few seconds longer in a couple cases, but most people were super understanding