Just wanted to share my experience with all of you. Pintastic New England is the first pinball show I have ever been able to attend. I just want to say I had an amazing time. I watched and played so many cool games. For those of you worried about the free play area it was absolutely packed with machines. I got to watch Roger Sharpe play a game on Big Bang Bar. I met Jersey Jack. I ran into some fellow Pinsiders whom I already knew. Everybody was friendly, cool, and ready to step aside when their turn was over. I patronized some of the vendors like Pingraphix, Pinnovators, etc. I got to play a bunch of games I never thought I would get to see in person: WOZ, MMR, TWD, BBB, STNG, SS, TOTAN, AF, AFM, Hobbit, ToM (I have this one but played it anyway), Lexi Lightspeed, Full Throttle, Whoa Nellie. My favorite games were MMR, WOZ, Hobbit, Full Throttle, Lexi Lightspeed. I managed to crack the top 5 on MMR and I was the only one in the top 5 that was not a default high score (i had to leave at 3:30 on Friday unfortunately).

Anyways, I had a really great time and I really hope this happens again next year. I hope you guys made money and then some.(I bought a t-shirt). If nothing else the satisfaction of pulling off a great event. If I would have known just how cool these show are I would have told my wife to call out sick and I would have gotten the hotel room, and brought games for free play. I wasn't able to participate more because life just got in the way this weekend. Thanks again for a great show.

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Full Throttle was fast and flow like crazy. The most flow in any game I've played. Loved the LCD display in the playfield. I felt like every shot made it into a loop or ramp. Like ToM it was just speed and ramps everywhere. I loved it. Lexi 3/4 of the playfield is a flat panel monitor covered in lexan. Machine maintenance is almost tool free. I talked to the guy and he said if a flipper assembly breaks you just slide out the assembly and swap it out. Full machine around $9000 but the upper 1/4 playfield, vinyls, translite, about $1500 (kit). Like a transformer you make a new game. The computer automatically reads the new playfield and loads appropriate software for the game. It was FUN to play. The playfield artwork is all on a monitor. If the lexan gets too scratched you just slide it out and put in a new lexan, playfield swap complete. The game looks brand new again. I really like it a lot.