1. Once school is out, college town biz can sink for the summer.

2. On nights with large street traffic, put up some sandwich signs with an arrow that says PINBALL!! leading people down to your biz.
(of course, you don't have a permit, but on a Saturday night, all the ordnance officers are off duty. Don't put your address on them, so you can deny any knowledge of them "No, I've not seen those signs. There was an out of town league here that night, maybe that's something they do....." Hell, you could put in small letters "NYC Pinball League" on them to further your disinformation. )

3. Make a trail of glitter sugar from the main part of town to your biz. Kids that are high will follow anything that sparkles.

4. Hook up with a local amusement distributor and be the first to unbox the latest game. Issue press releases for all local media like it's amazing news.

5. Trade radio advertising dollar-for-dollar with gift certificates for your biz. The radio station will have people call in to win and you will get valuable air time. Radio stations LOVE doing call in contests.

6. Rent the whole place out for private parties. Make sure you have the number for the local out-call services, limo services, and that kind of thing.

7. Put ads in old-people events like: classic car shows, art fairs, ham shows,

Walk-in: Do you guys fix pinball machines?
Pook: We fix your games for free! As long as you leave them here to be played for 6 months once it's fixed.
W: Wow! I mean ours is in the basement...they are heavy.
P: Yeah, I move mine up and down the basement stairs all the time. I know they are heavy.
W: 6 months, that's a long time.
P: How many years has it been broke, lol ?
W: Oh probably 5 years....maybe longer....10 really.
P: You can come visit it as often as you like.
W: What if you can't fix it?
P: Never had one we could not fix, but no charge if we can't.
W: What if my game breaks while it's here? I mean so many people playing it!
P: Games were made to be beaten on, shook up, swore at. It will come back battle hardened, ego in check.
W: I don't know, for all the trouble, how much is it for you to come to my house?
P: $150 a hour, plus travel time from the shop, plus parts.
W: You know, I only paid $200 for the game! Wow!
P: Yeah, I once bought a car for $800 and then had to put in a trans for $1500 a month latter.
W: OK, I'll bring it.

So you will get some extra games to rotate, hopefully a few people will come visit their game and play some of the others.

TAF and Bally Playboy are the 2 games that are always broken in every **rec-room** in America, so you might see multiples of those.

I listen to the radio 2x a day.

I start my truck.

I click on Station Mem1 and it's AC/DC

I click on Mem2 and it's Metallica

I click on Mem3 and it's Queen or G&R

I click on Mem4 and it's somebody talking about farting on their girlfriend.

I finally click on my SD card and listen to some music that is not 40-50 years old.

I repeat the process on my way home.....

What???????

You got to get out and see the world outside the Puritanical States of America.

Monasteries in Europe brew beer and sell it in a paper cup off the side of the chapel.

Vending machines sell beer and good wholesome people enjoy it on the tram as they ride home to their families after work.

MacDonald's sells beer and wine.

Jesus himself made wine.

C'mon man!

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If you have any old physical touch screen jukebox, the program Album Player has a coin-op commercial software and costs less than $100.

I know a few ops who use it to bring their dead Tunes Choice and JukeTouch boxes back to life and with AP as the software, there are no royalties to pay.

In fact the $50 version 5.3 has a checkbox to turn it into commercial, before they got the idea of selling a separate version for 2x the price.

Even if you go to huge pinball places on campus (like the two Pinball Pete's up in Michigan), no college kids are playing pinball.

They DDR, Hoops, Air Hockey, Billiards, HOOD, Walking Dead (arcade), anything but Pinball.

As long as it looks like a Tunes Choice, Touch-A-Tune or whatever, I'm sure no one will be the wiser.