Truly this is the most depraved of all confessions yet!

I love xfiles.

I love golf!

I enjoy playing DE Star Trek 25th more than STTNG or Stern ST. Fact

I love Gottlieb System 80 pins

No shame! Sinbad and Joker Poker are aces!

I put modern Williams flipper bats & super bands on my Fathom

In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max’s toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog…When my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I went nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out…But the worst thing I ever done — I mixed a pot of fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa — and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. I never felt so bad in my entire life.

Shut up Chunk.

Goonies...nice

Sinbad and Joker Poker are System 1 games

I pretended to drown to kiss Wendy Peffercorn

Sometimes when I let the dog out at night, I also pee in the yard.

Hey you guys!!!!

Been there. Done that. Proud of it. I'm just giving back to nature.

Drunken sailor's creed - I am man, the world is my urinal..

I have "secret dislike" for:

1) Stern late model pinball machine fanboys that rate games 10/10 although they have only played 2 games, and they both are the ones they own.
2) LED modders who make their games look like the sun and get blinded when they play them even if the lights are on or have so many colors that it looks like a unicorn $!@# all over the playfield.
3) Collectors who bury their playfields with action figures and zip ties after spending hundreds of dollars on things they could make from Toys-R-Us by themselves
4) Technical advice from collectors who just bought their first machine, yet do not know how to test a fuse.
5) "Collectors" who buy all NIB Stern machines only to dump them all after a few years to buy their next fancy car when they get bored, or realize they do not have a single bit of understanding on how to do maintenance and they are all broken and they sell them for a loss.
6) Owners that think games like TAF are made of REAL GOLD and try to sell them as such even though the playfields are blown out, the cabinet has tiger claw scratches, and it is missing the cloud topper.
7) Craigslist ads that are just plain absurd like "it will clean up with just some wax" even though the game came from a cow pasture, "it is just a simple fuse", even though the game does not power on
8 ) Any "rare" game on Ebay, although it states in the ad that 12,000 were made.

Its hard to sustain the momentum of a hobby when conditions have changed.
Call me opinionated, but I just blended into the Pinside mentality!

And that is why a dog is a filthy amimal

I still owed 3 people money I had borrowed off them for pins when I brought my last pin instead of paying them back!

This is all funny stuff! I confess I am actually thinking of adding a Virtual pin to my lineup

I've heard food always tastes better the second time.

Apparently, Germans like to do that, too. Or so South Park would have us believe...

Wow do I agree. The only change I would make [as my peeve] is when they go to sell them they don't take loss. They try to sell for more because they considered it an investment. "hey, they don't make them anymore" (tools).

I sold Popeye, then bought it back a few years later cos I missed it

I wouldn't go so far as to call a dog filthy, he's definitely dirty. But, a dog's got a personality. Personality goes a long way.

That's only redneck dogs in Georgia that eat human shit. My dog up here in Jersey has more discerning tastes: it's deer shit or nothing.

It's the joy of man hood. When it's freezing out I prefer the yard all the time.

I say I'm not competitive but when I lose I always say "hey let's play it again"......I get really annoying if I'm having an off night.

How about Arnold the pig? he's got personality.

When I get an extra ball on Monster Bash I like to do the little dance that Dracula is doing.

I am most pleased recently when I get the jackpot on Police Force. It's fun and usually is enough to make the knocker go off, so I bask in the glory.

I once made love with an old girlfriend on top of one of my older pinball machines in my collection (both now long gone).
The playfield glass broke, and she fell into the machine.
I cleaned out the glass and replaced it, but never told the next owner.
True story.

Replaced the glass or the girlfriend?

BOTH.
Strippers do not make good girlfriends in the long run.
Fun at the beginning, drama in the middle, disaster in the end.

I laugh when I see people fall down or puke

When staying at a hotel for a friends wedding, I got hammered. Woke up in the middle of the night and walked into the closet thinking it was the bathroom and peed on my wives shoes. True story. But hey the closet and the bathroom were right next to each other. Honest mistake.

One of my nephews was housebroken before he was potty trained....

I give my girlfriend the heavy end of the pinball machine whenever I have to bring a new game down the steps into my basement. She used to like pinball, but not so much anymore... I wonder why.

I don't feel bad though because she's a pole vaulter and significantly stronger than I am.

I had a walk through the Olympic village one day and I saw a guy walking along with a long stick over his sholder, I said ah you must be a pole vaulter. He said "no I a German, and how did you know my name was Walter"

I refer to games in my head by their Pinside abbreviations.

Ha, I did that once in college, but it was my girlfriends pantry. The door had a mirror so I thought it was the bathroom.

I can barely turn around in my gameroom right now and there are parts spread all over the basement. I have no room or budget for more pins, but I still check craigslist and the marketplace 4-5 times per day and always look for pins for sale in the cities I travel too for work, even though I'm pretty sure I couldn't get a pin in the overhead bin. When I see a game for sale that I haven't seen before, I read everything about it on IPDB, then google it, even if it's just to check out the images that aren't on ipdb, which often leads to links to images of pins I haven't seen before, which I always check out on ipdb...

My 5-year-old has too much shit so we occasionally sneak into her room she's gone and gather a bag for Goodwill. On a recent run, my wife found a purse with a handgun in it. Turned out it was a Transformers Megatron pistol from the 80s, which made my week.