Quoted from manadams:

Anybody know what days and hours if your bringing a game? Does it have to be there by Thursday or can it be brought on Friday?

Quoted from jfh:

Anyone have pics?

Quoted from Apex:

Maybe its time to bump this thread and get a little showdown buzz going. Ready to maybe make it out more than one day this year!
It will be coming up quick after Dory Hill.

Quoted from number_runner:

Thanks we had a blast playing these! [quoted image][quoted image]

Quoted from HobbyGuy:

Looking forward to playing that F-14 Charles! Thanks for bringing them!

Quoted from Mathazar:

Thanks to all who brought games!!! Special shout out to Charles_Kline - your group of video games kept my son occupied for a couple of hours Saturday afternoon. It was fun for him to play the original, full-size coin-op versions vs. the MAME setup I have in our rec room. Sea Wolf was a big hit with my wife....I didn't know this, but apparently it was one of the only video games she played as a kid (and I haven't seen one myself since I was a teenager except for when you bring yours to the show). She played it many times, set the high score, and was quite pleased with herself. Later that night after she left I went back and topped her score. Of course I didn't tell her....that's how I've managed to stay married to her for 27 years, lol.
For the show, my Meteor had 474 plays and my Night Rider had more than 500. I was really surprised that both machines made it through the entire show with that many people and that many games with no serious breakdowns. Meteor got a ball stuck between the top of a plastic and the glass twice, and one time one end of the wireform on the right inlane came out of the playfield - that's it. The biggest surprise to me was that Night Rider made it through the show with NO issues.
Highlights for me:
- Spending time on the Bond 60th Anniversary. I know a lot of people are bashing it, but I really liked it. Solidly built modern game with a retro feel. The pricing is unrealistic ($20K???) but I really enjoyed it and more than the regular Bond issues.
- Spending A LOT of time on Pulp Fiction. I guess I was feeling in a retro mood....PF hit all the right buttons for me, so to speak. I don't miss having a video screen at all. The sounds and call outs were great (if you could here them in the show setting). Fortunately I got to spend about an hour on it Thursday night after setting up my pins - it was it nice and quiet so I could hear everything and without a line of people waiting to get on, there was no rush to get off the machine.
- Talked to Butch Peel from Chicago Gaming after his seminar on Saturday and he told me to come back later that night and he'd turn on Pulp Fiction's "profane" setting for me. Unfortunately, I couldn't make it back but it's great to know there IS a profane setting for this game. You can't have Jule's from Pulp Fiction not saying MF every other sentence.
- Further got to hang out with Butch on Sunday while playing my Meteor and Night Rider pins and trading restoration and sales horror stories.
- Playing the two-player Joust pinball with my son. We do that every year at the show and, when it was there, each time we'd go to Lyons Pinball.
- Meeting some great pin folks in person, both new and ones that I've "talked" to through pinside but not had the opportunity in real life.
Thanks again to all who brought games. I just started a new restoration project (1979 Williams Flash) that I'll likely bring in 2024. Can't wait till next year!