Waiting for my kids to ride Space Mountain, I decided to check out the arcard to see if there were any pins. There were four, way in the back of the arcade. Elvis, IJ (stern), SWE1, and POTC.

SWE1 (out of service)

I own POTC so I didn't bother to play this one, but it didn't look good. The ship was half sunk (not sure if it worked at all) the Port Royale didn't have any decal. Looked in bad overall shape.

IJ (Stern), played it, was very flat dull to play. I mean there was no pop to the flippers and all around seemed very dull.

Elvis, the DMD was out of order, could only around 10% lights up. The right flipper would only go up 3/4 way so you can't trap the ball and can't hit all the shots.

A few days later, I was waiting again so I figured what the heck maybe I'd give IJ another try or maybe they would have SWE1 or Elvis back working. Wouldn't you just know it, not only was SWE1 not fixed, but IJ was out of service.

There is that question what came first the chicken or the egg. If there had been nice machines and if they were in order, I would have played them quite a bit and maybe other people would also. But crap machines not working will not earn anything. Then the arcade ops will say well pins don't earn anything.

the DMD on Elvis.
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