(Topic ID: 288587)
Litvinov
Tucson, AZ
Quoted from ForceFlow:Stern Lectronamo?
We have a winner! This looked quite good swept into a patch on the floor with all the mirror reflecting the ceiling lights, I found it hard to bring myself to sweep it up! Thankfully I don't have the game and the glass wasn't in great shape at all, so I actually felt a pang of relief as I accidentally dropped it! Decision of if I should bother salvaging it made in an instant! 
Quoted from freeplay3:Looks like lots of hours of entertainment going thru all those stacks of games.
I'm looking forwards to the games room being finally finished so I can move all the games in, that's for sure!! 10 years these things have been in storage!!
Quoted from pinballslave:I had a slight accident... can anyone identify which glass met its maker? Admiration and respect to the first with the correct answer.
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“Looks like Walt Disney threw up”. NE 1 remember that line?
Quoted from ForceFlow:Stern Lectronamo?
I know that we're all pinball geeks here, but it's kinda crazy that you got the answer first try and that quick.
Quoted from RCA1:I know that we're all pinball geeks here, but it's kinda crazy that you got the answer first try and that quick.
Well, I thought I recognized a few of the larger pieces. And Lectronamo was one of my favorite early solid state backglasses (even though the gameplay wasn't too exciting).
pasted_image (resized).pngQuoted from RCA1:I know that we're all pinball geeks here, but it's kinda crazy that you got the answer first try and that quick.
It’s because he is Superman.
Reminds me of the time I accidentally broke a firepower glass that was 9.5 condition. Ugh it hurts sometimes.
Quoted from EJS:Reminds me of the time I accidentally broke a firepower glass that was 9.5 condition. Ugh it hurts sometimes.
I hate to think back to some of the backglasses I broke... each one seems to be its own unique accident! The most memorable and classic was when I did 3 at once... including a mint condition Haunted House, which I'm still gutted about... I was in a hotel, I'd bought these 3 glasses on the way there and displayed them on a shelf in the hotel... I was in this particular hotel for several weeks (long business trip)... one morning I went to have a shower, but there was no hot water... zero... nothing coming from the tap at all... had a cold shower... found out they were doing maintenance on the boiler... went to work, when I got back to my room I opened the door to be met with a steam sauna! I'd forgotten to turn the hot tap off!!! The whole room was literally filled with steam... I opened the balcony door to let it all out, and slowly I was able to see stuff... looking at the glasses, which was my main concern, they looked like they'd survived... which is more than I could say for the paint on the hotel room door! I sat at the table surveying the wetness everywhere and I heard a very faint clicking sound... I looked at the glasses and the paint was starting to crack and lift off in large chunks!! I was horrible to watch, but I couldn't do anything about it... by the time they had fully dried out, the HH was 90% void of art, just a sheet of glass!! The other glasses were a Star Trek and Freefall... they were all spare glasses, but the HH was better than the one in my game, which is why I was particularly gutted about that one!!
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