Just got done with a long day of driving. This morning I drove down to Omaha to pick up a CFTBL for dvandentop. At any rate, I had such a bad case of Pin Envy that I turned around and drove another 6 hours round trip and picked up an AFM for myself. About 20 miles from home freezing rain hit so by the time we got home everything was encased in ice. trying to back in the driveway resulted in the truck doing a 180! We almost went over the retaining wall and into the neighbors yard. I will wait until tomorrow to unload, setup and play. So this leaves me with two pins encased in plastic wrap sitting in my shop that I CANT PLAY!

Here is my AFM

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Here is dvandentops CFTBL

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Thanks, Jar! Well, not from your back yard exactly...

Funny you brought that up. Received an email from Jeff while I was on the road, Freightwire and Coinopshippers are going to work together to get me a settlement. Should know a dollar amount in the next few days. I'll give a complete update in the thread I had started when it's a done deal.

Thanks, D. AFM has been calling to me in my sleep for several months now... seriously, CALLING.

Thanks guys. can't wait to get it set up tomorrow.

From my bedroom, it's 30 feet away out in the shop and all I can hear when I close my eyes is "This just in: reports are coming in from all over the World, the Earth is under attack, an attack from Mars!"

I'm never going to get to sleep.

Thanks, Justin. I appreciate you helping me out with this, sorry to have interrupted your dinner.

Great story. Yours along with everyones else's confirmations of how well loved this game is, helps with the "Sting" of looking at my back account balance this morning!

Thanks, Jim. Ya.. to say the least lol. something about driving the same stretch of interstate twice in the same day made it seem that much longer!

Back in the day, in another life, we used to have a saying, "Less is more". I think this is a perfect example.

That's pretty close to Sioux county... we might be able to swing an honorary membership! But you have to pass an initiation first and either go on a pin expedition with us, or come here and buy my WCS that I'm shopping out! Gotta help finance the AFM!

Thanks, Tat. hopefully I get it looking half as nice as yours!

I got a new playfield with the deal as well! Can't wait to get it in there.

Got AFM moved into the gameroom this afternoon. It had some flipper issues, so I threw a rebuild kit and some new coils in. Other than that it needs a target replaced, some bulbs replaced and a really good cleaning. Once the new playfield is here and I do the swap, I'll bling it out... there is a set of mirror blades just waiting to get installed!

Here are some pics.

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poor judge dredd is keeping your creetch company out in the shop but at least i have the game room back.

Spent the evening cleaning and changing bulbs... this thing had the dirtiest inserts, bulbs and boards out of any pin I have ever worked on. it's amazing that any light was coming through at all. changed all the GI to warm white retros and now I can actually see what's going on! just played a few games on it and had a grin from ear to ear the entire time. easily the funest game in the collection right now.

I told Jean she had to play TZ for a while and she said, "No way you play it, I'm playing the martian one!". I think we are going to be playing doubles on this for a while.

This AFM still has the 1.1 ROM installed. I tried burning the 1.3 version from IPDB three times and each one didn't boot. I burned a ROM from Planetary Pinball and it worked fine. Do you guys know if the PinMame ROM's on IPDB work for real pins or not?

Installed a Flipper fidelity kit tonight. WOW, the bass is incredible! Stevie Likey