Take cash next time and try to pull a search and rescue. Sounds like you already have the search part complete. =)

Route games must be will cared for or people that love pins will not come back to play broken games. Maybe twice but after that they will give up on a location. Even more so with today's youth than when we were kids.

Ah very sad story then. I thought you meant neglect like dirt on PF broken rubbers and plastics etc..

Could be Location Location Location?
Seems great to get a ton of games for cheap if they are cared for you are lucky to have them close.

I thought it was going to be much worse....

If that's was the case it would suggest the backup batteries were gone.

I went there last year, I was amazed at the modern pier with every thing they managed to squeeze in, like you said indoor go-karts at the top of the building.

I remember playing Batman on the ground floor and on one of the higher floors I played two other pins Shrek and Spiderman, I'm gutted I didn't see BBH.

Just a little way from the pier is another arcade in the high street and that is where I played Transformers for the first time.

I'm going to Great Yarmouth on Saturday, does anyone know a pinball location worth checking out here???

I assume that what you mean by this was the score at which you would win a free game (replay level)

I occasionally visit Weston Pier, and I can normally win several free games when I first start playing as the games have normally been recently played by non-pinheads and the replay scores are low. I usually am able to walk up to any of the pins there and have a game, but I do sometimes see the public playing them. Most of them don't have much idea of how to play unfortunately and walk away mystified afterwards. I can see how the general public are intimidated by the machines. I frequently end up having an audience when I play here as the youngsters are interested to see how these games are actually played properly. I will often let the families have the free game if their interest has been sparked and I'll move on to the next game.

These games have not been looked after though, they were all brand new a couple of years ago when the pier reopened, but never have been cleaned or serviced properly and have multiple faults. So sad as this doesn't give casual players who try out these games the true impression of pinball.

Another place I frequent as my family lives over that way.

There are three pins on Great Yarmouth seafront, CSI in the Goldrush arcade is by far the best machine. There is a Pirates and a poorly South Park in Majestic Amusements nearby.

sweet!! I have never played CSI

Thanks for the info, my boys and I were delighted to play BBH and Bat
man on Weston pier today!

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Thanks for the info, my boys and I were delighted to play BBH and Bat
man on Weston pier today!

Awesome pins....

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Even easier to purchase then

Update on Great Yarmouth, I found all 3 pins.

I'm playing CSI everyday, £2 for 5 games, today I hit a 20million score, only another 5mill to get my name on the score board, I'm very determined to do this, this pin is in great playable condition.

I also found the other two pins, POTC was switched off and the South Park was playing just about... Many faults, I did play this one and managed to score enough for my initials to go on the score board, but it doesn't really count because its not playing right so is really a false score. Very strange that these two pins aren't even on legs!!!!

Fingers crossed these pics work.

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lol what? on no legs!?

Those must be the new legless hover -pins

Yes those two pins sit on a shelf in that arcade - no nudging allowed!

really? they sit on a shelf?

no they hover

If you want I'll get a better side profile pic this week of the legless floating pins.

I've came across many "unplayable" machine, they had so many things not working in them. In movie theatres and at the arcade on the pier at old orchard, maine

How did they sound? Did the shelves that they sat on have holes cut in them for the sound to come out? Very strange.

The Walmart in a nearby town had a Dark Knight that was just terrible. The playfield was just horrible. As I was telling my wife how bad I wanted to go to the service desk and beg them to let me at least clean it a bit, I got a ball stuck on a misaligned switch. She dragged me away.

I try like crazy to keep all our stuff working at the arcade. I'm not the best at it. God knows I'm slow at figuring it out most times. But I fight like Hell to keep everything up. I remember going to arcades where the kids working there could care less about the machines. Now that I'm basically running the arcade for my boss, my obsession with upkeep has been cranked up to 11.

Where you using the force to lift those pins?

I remember playing that South park about seven years ago. IIRC there was very little incline on the playfield and no easy way to adjust it without the legs on

They are using that 2012 hoverboard technology that Marty McFly saw when he came up from 1986.

Not to be a stickler, but Marty started out in 1985 and traveled to 2015. Got your years a bit off there...

...only 2 more years until I can get my car hover-converted and my power-lace Nikes... can't wait...

Best pics I could get of the magic, floating hover-pins.

I managed a few games on POTC earlier, sadly another neglected pin in need of some TLC.

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Sorry, I slipped and hit my head on the toilet bowl.

Nice to see a post from Oxford. I lived there twice in the 80s (80-81 and 84-89). I can't remember seeing a single pin, but there must have been some. I do recall putting a lot of 10p coins in the Space Invaders game at the Old Tom pub.