Wow, you're like this at this time of the year? Wait 'til the days get shorter and it gets chilly out. You'll want them even more!

That is a really good fever to have.

Try a woodrail soon, to spread the fever further.

LTG : )™

Yeah, I hear ya; lotsa "humdidity"!

The line forms here.

I think you mentioned that you were recently not into pinball and more into biking. Looks like the fever has come around again.

I'm with ya Swamp.

I'm still looking for my first EM!

I rolled that Abra, Bob Matthews was watching and confirmed it. I score like 90,000 points on ball 5, dropped all the targets, then reset and kept it alive. It was a total thrill. Just thinking about it excites me.

That's nice but No, you can't have my Gottlieb's or my Brains.

Ken

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Brains!!!

--Jeff

Welcome to the EM obsession. Someday you'll look back on your
first EM and wonder how you could only have one. The next level
beyond the common EM are early (1930's) mechanical machines and
even bingos. Lots to discover in this group too.
Steve

Only if you sit down to pee. I enjoy watching football in Green Bay during January. Then ski season.

I started out with mostly early Bally solid state pins and have over the last few years really got hooked on many EM games from the 50's through the 70's. My collection is now around 50 or so pins and about 60% of them are EMs. I now seem to add two EM games for every SS game I buy. Wait until you start collecting EM rifle games, EM shuffle bowlers and other early EM coin-op stuff...

-- Shawn

I have a killer restored Jack in the Box, and that is the game that really got me into pinball when I was 12 or so....am 53 now! That is my favorite EM, though I enjoy many others. Glad you discovered that game.

Looks like my first will be a Quick Draw. Only the fast and the dead round here. I'm stoked!

As a kid a neighbor had a Williams Honey, which I love to play. My first pinball machine was a Williams Dealers Choice, but I never got it to work properly. Although I can't fix them, I can appreciate EM games a lot and love playing them. I was very happy with the EM lineup at the NW Pinball & Arcade Show. Played each one of them and kept coming back for more

On a sidenote: One of the reason to publish the PINBALL book by Santiago Ciuffo were the photos of EM games that are in the book. The artwork is just something else and I like it a lot.

Now if you only had a place to actually play them..

For full disclosure, I sold my last two EM's to Shawn! Hopefully Jet Spin is a keeper. I really like the roto+vari target so far...just gotta get it playing fast to find out..

Swampfire, you gotta visit Wigglesville permanently or at least get a condo there. It's nice all year round