When will someone post that's going to buy the new Batman 66 pin from Stern, regardless of all the widespreadly company's QC issues?
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Cincinnati, OH
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Stainless steel coindoors have edges sharp enough to slice right through the polishing cloth and deep into your fingers as you're cleaning them.....guess how I found out. Anyone else dumb enough to do this?
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Quoted from jibmums:When one of my pins is about to say something, I always ask it a relevant question.
Me: "Sorcerer, how do you like your steak?"
Sorcerer: "Well done!"
Another I've used lately:
Me: "Pinbot, where did you go after your heart attack?"
Pinbot: "ICU"
I hold the start to reset constantly when I play at home. I'm trying to stop because less than a third of my games make it to ball 2. Plus I want to start playing tournaments so... I can't only have a "if ball 1 gets to X setup" plan.
Quoted from mgpasman:I play Pinball Arcade on my tablet more often than my real pins. Even when I am at home.
Now you need to pray 200 hail-marys and 300 our-father to repent for this deadly sin.
I can't throw away the old incandescent bulbs when I shop a game. I can't help but think I'll need them someday....
Quoted from Schwaggs:I can't throw away the old incandescent bulbs when I shop a game. I can't help but think I'll need them someday....
I too have a bag full, but I have graduated to tossing the blackened ones and any I find in the bottom of cabinets when I get a new game.
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I add the Pinsiders online and guests online to get an estimate of how many total people are on the Forum every time I visit.
*Often times when scanning down list of Pinside Forum threads, and I come upon The Confessional thread, I never seem to remember what I had thought of recently that I could confess/post about on this thread. This has been going on now for 2 to 3 yrs. 
*I must be a glutton for punishment. I always click on the Pinball Horror Pics! thread to see the most recent new pics posted. 
When I play AGBGoaWT, I do "The Wop" dance when I score "record a song" while waiting for the ball to return to the flippers, and play air drums during the match sequence finishing it off with a cymbal crash.
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I recently helped my buddy get his first pin, a Firepower. It worked just fine but no sound, so he's been playing it silent for two months. He checked all the connectors, had someone check the components and power with a MM, everything checks out fine. He's pulling the screws last night to send the board out for repair and he notices that one of the connectors (which he had checked) is off by one pin, like a mis-buttoned shirt. Reseats correctly and boom! sound!
Quoted from Schwaggs:I can't throw away the old incandescent bulbs when I shop a game. I can't help but think I'll need them someday....
I can say that I did indeed dig back into that box of bulbs even though all my games are full leds. My Congo had a couple of flashers that triggered on every flipper hit. Read somewhere that some led flashers do this but regular incandescent do not. Found that to be true.
I bought a multicart for my neo geo I just got and got the shipping tracking number this morning
Then I realized that the place is only 40 minutes away
I would have just went and picked it up and saved on shipping
Surrey, BC
I have several arcade games but just had my first pin delivered. I quickly realized that I am a pinball person...
Gilligan's Island
I removed my tilt bob from my WoZ on Wednesday because there's no grace-period on warnings.
And I still tilt.
(Actually starting to wonder if the tilt mech wasn't installed level)
I tried fixing a sound issue on a pin after a few drinks. Could not fix. Then months later I finally gave in and paid a tech to come look and try to fix the same problem. Tech arrived and upon opening the backbox and actually looking at the sound board I found the problem myself - a leg from a sound ROM was sticking out of the socket. I put the chip in correctly, problem was solved and paid the tech for him to watch.
Quoted from arcademojo: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.
So you're confessing that you're a polygamist?
Quoted from EvanDickson:So you're confessing that you're a polygamist?
Good one ED. I had to re-read it all more carefully to "get it".
Quoted from arcademojo:But hey the closet and the bathroom were right next to each other. Honest mistake.
I've made the same mistake when I was drunk. The wife was pissed. Wait, "the closet" and "the bathroom" are euphemisms right?
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When someone posts a poll asking which game is best/which one should they buy....I vote for the worst one/or the one that I have no interest in, hoping to keep the one I really want from getting too much attention and having its price rise.
When I play my EBD I try on the 1st ball to get a DELUXE, a saucer shot, a bank shot, light up all 3 bumpers, and light up all the lights in the left lane for an extra ball. I've never done it but I have come close.....I rarely play a whole game anymore.....I just keep resetting trying to do this impossible feat.....it's like a pinball OCD I've become obsessed !
Pinball is better than a girlfriend because you wont get 100 points when she kicks you in the balls lol.
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I would think pinball gloves would be reversed. Bare pointer and middle fingers, and the rest gloved. Might be an interesting sales gimmick for new pinball owners and players for tournaments.
"Improve you pinball game for $19.99!"
Somebody go get a patent.
Quoted from DanTheGlassMan:I enjoyed the treasure cove thread way too much.
The one that's pinned?
My wife thinks I'm building her a "she-shed" because I'm nice. In reality I just want more room in the den for pinball.
Quoted from Rondogg:The one that's pinned?
NO! That would be awful.
He means the recent sales dispute one.
How about some thick rubber pad in the palms for nudging! I want some creative compensation here Marco...or just settle for a plastics kit lol 
Quoted from Spg101:Ok, so I'm new to owning but not to playing. I see these folks talking about 600k on WoZ. How many are playing 3 ball instead of 5? Sheet, didn't even realize you could do this until this thread..
600k on woz with 3 balls is a good game but not great. If you stack things right you can see 600k from bonus
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