i have 2 houses on my property and one is the game room house - the last 7 years or so it has been used by divorced friends who needed a place to stay - for the first time in a while it's vacant - anyway i am offering this out to families who are from another state or country and want to make it a family vacation.

it's available for week before pintastic, the week of, and the week after if you want to do a new england family vacation (so any of those days you need) - it's free - i don't charge anybody - it's 40 minutes (maybe closer) to pintastic - it's 1440 sq feet - i bedroom, 1 large room with 20 or so games, kitchen, living room, full bathroom, 2 couches for kids and it's a separate house. I only ask you respect it and treat it better then your own home.

i would even let you borrow one of my toasters (scion xb car) if you needed a 2nd car for the family. as long as you don't mind driving a car with 300k plus miles as i have 3 of them and they are all over 300k.

we are 45 minutes from newport, 45 from boston, 3 hours to new york/new jersey. 3 hours from white mountains in new hampshire, 3 hours from maine, 1 hour from cape cod.

i would really like a family in there, but if you have 3 or 4 guys who want to come from another country that is also ok. please don't get offended if i get 10 requests and i choose somebody else. it's also ok for pets as long as they are trained. to get into this house requires walking up about 15 steps - so if you are fragile it's not for you. somewhere on here is a picture of the WOZ at the bottom of the stairs.

there are also pictures of the inside of this house on pinside also as it holds a lot of my games.

thanks ed

i am confused as far as when the show ends - in the past we all were there loading our games up as the prizes were giving away on a saturday night - now i see sunday is the last day of the show. i know you bring a lot of games and since you are saying sat night, i am confused if it's saturday night or sunday afternoon for the end of the show. thanks ed

i can bring to pintastic if presold - i was going to bring them all for free play but heading to Ireland for 10 years and can't get the games out if they don't sell.

banzai run - nice shape - 6k
roller games - nice shape - recently shopped out (not me) diamond plate playfield 2600
cowpoke - average shape - was at pintastic last year - 900

i might still bring rollergames for free play and just pick up saturday if it doesn't sell

i had planned to bring my steve ritchie collection - but we are doing a family trip to Ireland

thanks ed

10 years - i won't live that long - 10 days - must have been thinking it will seem like 10 years - thanks ed

i didn't make it this year because i couldn't keep the games there to sunday - i had 8 all packed to go in my basement, banzai run, rollergames (pre sold), superman, diner,iron maiden, baywatch, cowpoke, and 8 ball deluxe - only the banzai run,cowpoke and rollergames would have been for sale - with roller games presold. i can say in the past when i bring 5 to 10 games something always seems to break on the way there, or quickly once it's being played.

the crew is great in getting them fixed quickly. last year i remeber cow poke broke right away and i think it was alex from ct who fixed it right away. i think it broke on transport, so it's not people are bringing broken games - crap just happens - especially the way i bring them with the legs on in my trailer.

anyway i missed the show this year - i did have a couple of guys from NJ stay in my garage house who went to the show for a few days. just talking to colson made it seem like i was there. just bad timing for me this year as i am going crazy for the ireland trip (which takeoff is a few hours from now). i did fly right by the show 4 times when i was working for my trucking business - but we are on time schedules, and even though i wanted to stop - i couldn't - thanks ed