I prefer stop-and-go games and EM machines because I don't always want to have lightning reflexes.

Truly this is the most depraved of all confessions yet!

No shame! Sinbad and Joker Poker are aces!

I enjoy playing other people's games, even if they have tech issues, because when I play my games often I start scrutinizing them for tiny tech issues I will have to fix later.

I dislike tinkering on my machines by myself, but love doing it with a friend.

my monocle just popped!

I like pachinko machines even if they are mindless gambling devices.

HEY NOW, this is the confessional thread. The Shaming thread is every other thread on pinside.

everyone immediately checked what games were in his collection...

I think the nostalgia for System 11 games prices them far beyond how fun they actually are.

I find it annoying when people list stuff on ebay for way over it's market value, it fails to sell, and they just keep relisting it at the same price.
I find it kind of amusing when people list stuff on ebay for way over it's market value, it fails to sell, and they just keep relisting it at a HIGHER price.

My game room has turned more into a museum than a functional social space.

also new balls

If a pinball video/stream has any sound effects play when someone subscribes I immediately close the video.

we are monstrous.

I spend way more time reading about pinball (taking breaks at work and such) than actually playing in my game room (having free time at home)

ok but who is Judy

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It allows people to bump their friends' ads, also while expressing a sentiment for the item on sale in case there is one closer.

I want to go to an arcade where someone has collected all of the poorly regarded toss-off games and/or games from companies that went under.
Cosmic Carnival
Predator
Mafia
Stern
The Punny Factory
Thunderbirds
Alien
Jetsons
Domino Pizza
Woah Nellie

most nights I'm way too exhausted to have time to play games, but I still like looking into my gameroom and get a lot of pleasure just seeing it all, even if I don't have the time+energy

I know that this is The Confessional thread and all, but damn, this is the hardest thing I've ever read in all 40 pages.

I confess that I'm super curious as to what happened to prices on pinside classifieds in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.

STUNNING!!!!! love it

ok, confession: I am dismayed and exhausted by how much oxygen american politics sucks out of the globe. (hail Skroob)
It's legit heartbreaking and demoralizing.

please tell me you have photos to share

after I got booted from a thread for making fun of Qanon nutjobs destroying public health initiatives, there was admittedly a little bit of schadenfreude in watching the thread derail so spectacularly a day later.

I confess I checked your collection out when I read your post.

oooo relelvant to my interests. Can I ask what tracks you chose? I'd love to play Metallica but with like Sunn O))) or Earth tracks instead

French toast is better than waffles and pancakes.

I like the inherent drama of watching new machines show up on the Top 100 list and then get adjusted in the subsequent weeks

I confess I read every JohnnyPinball007 post

I love the magic of one-ball gambling pins. But the story also doesn't quite add up... My friends have found many an operator hack on one-balls and bingo machines, but they wouldn't just "pull the win" functionality. Winning on a one-ball isn't that hard, it's not some rare event (purely random, it'd be greater than 1/7,) so they would notice right away if their easy wins paid nothing.

Often times on these machines operators would disable certain features or make things impossible. Like on this 1949 Champion https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3008&picno=76300&zoom=1 you have a special carry-over feature where if you get A-B-C-D lit (this carries over between games) you get a special purse. On my friend's, A-B-C were always lit, and D's switch was disconnected, meaning you'd always entice players with the close jackpot, but that didn't pay.

this ad for Victory Derby says it has a "Spell Name" feature https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2735&picno=5645&zoom=1 which is definitely the kind of thing operators liked to mess with, but in none of the pics do I see a "Big build-up reserve" that is advertised, which would usually be a separate visible counter. (it wasn't unheard of for ad copy to not match production specs)
but here are the instruction cards for Champion which explains the Spell Name feature: https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=3008&picno=74405&zoom=1

It's also easy enough to snip/modify the mixers inside which make the odds difficult/impossible to step up to the higher levels.
But if the game just didn't pay out, it'd be as enticing as walking up to a machine with flippers and finding the flippers didn't work.

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One thing to note about machines like Victory Derby is that they preyed on the USA Government's War Bonds program, and earned lots of disdain for sometimes confusing people about where the money was going. See this ad: https://www.ipdb.org/showpic.pl?id=2735&picno=46191&zoom=1 "Back the attack... Buy U.S. War Bonds" WW2 had ended by that time, but still, that was after a couple year of coin-op manufacturers taking flak for co-opting war fundraising efforts.

anyways, if anyone else loves these, check out http://pinballnovice.blogspot.com/2020/02/niche-collections-craigs-one-ball-horse.html

all of the 90s games I love are overrated imo.
Comparing games like Addams Family and Theatre Of Magic to new games like Iron Maiden and Jurassic Park and Pirates Of The Caribbean feels comparing Flight 2000 and Seawitch to Addams Family and Theatre of Magic.
Or comparing Card Whiz and Big Shot to Flight 2000 and Seawitch.

They're all amazingly fun games, but the generation gap is huge.

I confess I've been reading about how vibrant secular democracies fall to authoritarian theocratic rule.

weird flex but I hope that makes you feel better

LMAO I have no idea what this means but it's hilarious

I confess I don't miss working in my office one bit and might spend the rest of my career working from home.

This summer they were replacing the sewer lines on our street, probably 15 feet down? Some drunk student decided to climb the pit fence for fun and got stuck down in the hole, and I think had to be rescued by firefighters.

I'm sorry for your ouchies, but I hoped you snapped a selfie from when climbed out victorious

oh sorry, "a manly photography to document the aggressive and masculine adventures"!

this slaps

spending time with flipperless pins really makes you appreciate the skill of the perfect plunge!

I confess I still look up how to spell words like schadenfreude and vacuum

blows me away that there is only a single I in that word

I confess that working on a machine with someone else is 10x more enjoyable for me than working on one solo.

For me it's having that third hand to shift the playfield as you access a tight spot, to let you know what light it lit when you adjust switches in the backbox, and to just chat about the theory of operation to arrive at a solution to the problem. And of course camaraderie when you're shaking out the nastiest of gremlins!