Cumming, GA
Everyone has a favorite aspect of pinball - what is yours? I know we all have many, but if you HAD to choose one, which would it be?
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Playing for fun. I'm pretty new to the hobby, but it hit me like a ton of bricks. I play as often as I can and make it out to a place every few weeks to play his 70+ machines (cp pinball) which is about 45 mins away. Every time I go I fall for a new machine...eventually it will be collecting, but playing is it for now...trying to get good.
I think you should have an option for modding/pimping machines beyond stock. I assume the 'making mods and parts' option is for guys/companies like laseriffic, the mirror blades producers and the pintopper guy? I'm talking collectors who just find and add mods to their own machines or have things powdercoated, etc. That's where I'm at. I like playing and collecting, but I am getting addicted to modding as well.
Quoted from SealClubber:I was going to select, "Being famous." but then I woke up.
I had trouble with that one too. FAMOUS should have been all big letters 
LTG : )
Playing for fun, certainly not profit. Although I did have a pretty good run on an RCT running TOPS back in the day.
For me, collecting and especially repairing are necessarily evils I have to engage in to fuel my one true pinball passion: PLAYING. If there were great games on location all over the place, I wouldn't feel the need to own many, if any pins.
Yeah, I switched answers like 3 times. It's so hard to pick a focus when I love multiple aspects listed!
I prefer working on them even though I am pretty new to it. I wouldn't say I am great at it but I like to figure it out myself, and with lots of help from this site. I love reading about the issues someone has and how everyone here rallies to help find a solution.
.. I Voted for ______ ? 
Yeah - I was limited to 10 items so I went with what I've seen over the years. And for the record, I chose Collecting Machines. I really like taking broken games and making them work but I think having a nice collection is what I enjoy. None of my games are "Collector Grade" but I'd call them nice playing games. I do like meeting the people of pinball, famous and everyday a lot as well. I guess that's why I like Expo so much - great people (except the ones who kidnapped Mellony). Oh, and I was going for a poll that people would have to choose among multiple items that applied to them, but I think it'll give us a feel for who comes here and what they might be looking for.
I voted "playing pinball", but really for me, I spread my time & interest over several choices (collecting, repairing, playing, meeting, selling).
And the big choice that was left out of the poll (I realize we are limited to 9 choices when creating polls) is: "spending time online reading/typing about pinball on websites such as: Pinside/ipdb/Mr.Pinball/etc.".
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