I winced just reading that.

My Alien Poker has been down for over a year because I haven't redone the interboard connectors even though I have the parts on hand. Maybe this will motivate me to get to it, I miss playing it.

I enjoy playing the cheapest game in my collection much more than the most expensive game.

As they say: The truth hurts (in this case, a lot!)

That's because WW is something special!

Confessions:

I just read this whole thread while at work.

I dance during the "Mamushka" in TAF and when I get the extra ball in MB.

I quote most of TAF, especially "SHOWTIME!!" at the start of multi-ball.

Absolutely correct.

If I do poorly on the first ball, sometimes I just start a new game.

I actually like Avatar.
I played Ringmaster Battle on CV last night for so long that I got bored with it. 290 million....
When I had a BSD at my house, I started over after ball one about 260 times....

When playing against my girlfriend I stressed "You aren't really playing against me babe, it's all about improving yourself". 5 minutes ago she just took over my #2 spot on my IMve that she has a total of about 7 games on.

At the arcade today I got to Destroy the Ring on LOTR for the first time because the Shire switch was not registering. Anytime a ball (or two) fell in during a MB it was kindly held for me. Major malfunction...

If a have a really bad game at an arcade I'll play another one just to clear the score off so no one sees it after I leave.

As soon as I see a topic with the "locked" icon and new posts or even if I've never read any of the posts, I immediately open it. I'm so weak .___.

Needless to say the last 2 weeks, I've read a lot of threads.

I have a lot of NOS parts that I don't know which game they are for or even if I still own the game because I never took the time to put them in zip locks and label them (probably because I thought I'd never forget what they went to).

On a related note, I seem to have multiples of everything because I buy parts I think are good to have without realizing that I've already bought them.

I like to play NGG just to hear the chicken dance.

1/3 of the year, my mancave looks like Fallout 3 while I'm in the middle of projects (not just pins), and I hardly even play my working games. The other 2/3 of the year it is very clean and we do a lot of drinking/playing/partying.

Currently it is in Fallout mode.

1/2 way through Comet. 1/2 way through Centaur. So figure another 2 months until it is back in party mode.

I also think I enjoy restoring games more than playing them. I also enjoy selling them for less than I have into them because I just want more people appreciating them and not get ripped off. Yes, I'm crazy and obsessive. I get tunnel vision with projects and just work on them non-stop until they are done, otherwise they get shelved and I never finish them.

I have a 4 tier metal shelving unit filled with electronics "projects" that will probably never get finished.

Oh, thank God. There's somebody else like me. I'm OCD until the machine is the way I want it to be. $$$ drained into it come hell or high water and everything has to be perfect. I had a friend look at me like I was nuts when I told him everything I was buying for my Congo. I paused and said, "I know I'll never get it back," and he laughed and told me he was glad I said it so he didn't have to tell me that.

I do the dramatic arm sweeps along with the Genie when I get an extra ball on TOTAN.

Lemmie keep your contact info handy...

I like pinball and classic video games. I'm over 40 and I've never 'been' with a woman.
That's probably fairly common though...right?

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http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/all-about-sex/201106/are-there-really-40-year-old-virgins

Article says 5% of the male population. I believe that.

I kept 2 machines in garage all winter because I had no room in cave. Backglass and all.
I twitch as sparky lights up and do an andrew dice clay impression

I paid nothing for my Seawitch and NBA Fastbreak.

LOL, I never said that I was a virgin.

5% seems kinda high for such an instinctive behavior, but you never know.....

I'm most proud of my 6yo son when I hear him quoting my pins:

<block tower falls over> "I feel like a blundering novice"

Also, when he gets so excited for getting a match and yells "pop!" as the knocker hits.

Huge Matrix fan. All three movies

I got 3,900,000 on WCS today!

The game was still on 5 ball that was left over from a nonpinhead party I had last Saturday night.

A $75 transaction that went wrong, at that.

I confess that when I'm playing a game and there is a slight lull in the action, I like to hit the flipper button on the machines on either side - just to hear one of the attract mode sound call outs.

I especially like to do this to WH20 and hear Big Foot roar/growl. Makes me feel like I'm poking the bear and taunting him.

Since you have to wait some mysterious amount of time before you can hit it again there is a weird satisfaction about it when it happens. I think I'm building up a grudge against the games that don't have the call outs.

I have sold a pin that spent less time in the lineup than what it took to get shipped to me.

I just read this entire thread.

...and what would you like to confess? Go ahead and get it off you chest.

Bless me pinside for I have sinned lowballed when the price was reasonable and even far too low I just can't stop it. Not too mention I don't have any more room and I keep buying pins sometimes taking 3 or 4 days to set them up so I can shuffle my collection.

Please forgive me pinsiders, for I have pinned.

I have picked up games and let then sit in the car for a few days untill the opportunity comes to sneak them in to the house so the wife doesn't notice.

I currently have a game I just purchased at a friends house waiting for such opportunity to come home.

I feel I have a bad illness

It just took me a half hour to find my multimeter. It was inside a pin I worked on two weeks ago. It was turned on.

My first album was the partridge family ( first album )...nothing to do w pinball..jus sayin

That's not a confession, my friend. That's just friggin' awesome. Nothing to be ashamed of!

Point meeeeeeee in the direction of Albuquerque!!!

I think the movie "Tron" sucks ass, and the sequel is actually better.

My first pinball machine was a Zizzle.

I spend more time on tweaking and working on my games then playing them (collector operator life).

I use a SF2 bug to cheat the possibilty of getting an extra ball...

I accidentally left a breaker fuse in my game for a few months after diagnosing a short, forgetting to fit a fuse back.

I think I may reset the scores and blame the battery as the missus is getting frustrated it's just me and I don't want her to regret us getting the machine.

I broke a long standoff post and found it difficult to find a replacement here so flipped it upside down. Been fine.

Despite clearly stating I was finished buying and satisfied, I bought two others, and I'm looking at a third.

Also..... Oh man, here it goes.... I may have been a little wrong about cftbl.....

Ermmmm...

I had that with our TZ and I am glad it's gone.

I restart a game when the first ball goes out too fast.
Our games are set to 5 balls, because we are lousy players
All my outlane posts are narrow.
Black Night 2000 makes me sing.
Cactus Canyon makes me produce all kind of Western sounds and imitate John Wayne
Many pinball modes make me repeat whatever is yelled or make me do a little dance.
I hate how some pinballs leds are done, they are either blinding, or like Little Pony Rainbow barf.

When I was a kid and it was in the theater I thought it was awesome. The effects. The games. Great stuff. Watched it again recently and it's pretty terrible. Should have just stuck to my memory of it.

Until today, I hadn't turned on any of my games in 3 weeks…...

It took me a year to find a multimeter I left in a friend's game a year ago.