awesome shirt & great photos

The Klondike won best 70's EM. That was a nice machine and played great. Definitely deserved a really nice ribbon and he won it.

All Ken's machines were nice.

Thanks for getting pics of my Derby Day in our little non-Herbison woodrail line up, I forgot to do so.

That Klondike was great, it even spurred a "pointy people" conversation with my wife since she'd never heard about that phrase for the art style on the playfield. She's fascinated by the progression of pinball and how art and playfield features of each manufacturer is so distinctive.

These machines were a joy to play. Beautiful condition as well. That Sing Along was freaking gorgeous.

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I see someone brought a Hi Score Pool. Did anyone actually play it?

I always thought that thing hardly even qualified as a pinball machine.

I have heard it's oddly fun?

I did play Hi Score Pool, it seemed like it was pretty finicky though- the ball launch wasn't always ejecting cleanly and two of my three games ended after four balls for some reason. I didn't enjoy it much, the covered playfield was not my thing.

Nice pics - the first 4 in that back row (Cinderella to Crescendo) were the highlights for me. Great examples and great fun.

2 of these are currently in my shop, come on over.

I'm a huge Hi Score Pool fan

Great pics Ken - thanks for posting!

From all that I've seen and heard, TPF looks to be a fantastic show for EMs as well as in general. Wish I could have made it!

- Tim

That's funny, that's actually me behind the Crescendo in the pic up there. Got tons of compliments on it and frankly I don't even feel like I am half done with it yet. Just goes to show that your games should always play great BEFORE they look their absolute best. The "EM Aisle" was rocking this year....by far seemed like way more play than usual in that section.

That Doozie that Shawn brought was a lot of fun as well.

A lot of fun. Always good to catch up with distant friends. 4 games added to the paint queue

Well, I want to thank all of you who brought EM pins this year!
They are by far my favorite games to play!, "and restore".
I agree with Frax, The machine should ALWAYS play great! the looks are icing on the cake!
So many EM's this year, and almost all were working!
The only bummer, was a fair amount of the "for auction" games were not turned on and I did not get to play them.
And that Super Straight, awesome job! I have the wood version, and love playing it! great game.
Thanks again EM guys! Lets bring even MORE EM games next year!!
Show is over, back to the United bowler project.
BEER!

Probably the best variety (and quality) of EMs I've seen at a show. I probably had more fun playing games in the EM rows than pretty much anything else.

The Central Park in the tournament area was extremely nice and convinced me I made a mistake selling mine.

P. S. Thanks very much to those who restored and/or brought the games to the show. EMs aren't "sexy" any more, but there are plenty of us who enjoy them.

I did see some young kids that wanted to play one game, but they didn't realize how the ball lifter worked - they were wondering why the ball did not eject into the shooter lane. I showed them and the pinball world had another generation of EM fans ("it's hard to score points on these old ones")

Thanks for bringing the Klondike. I've never played one before but I found this to be a great playing game (and it looked great too). I really liked the challenge of trying to line up the 3 "slot machine" reels to maximize scoring while trying to avoid advancing one reel accidentally all the while keeping an eye on the kick-out hole to collect the reel bonus. Oh yeah, trying to keep the post between the flippers activated without hitting the "lower the post" roll-over added more layers of challenge. It was like playing several games / strategies at the same time. Really remarkable for a simple little single player EM game from the 70's. If you look at my wish list in Pinside, you'll notice that I've added Klondike to it.

I played it back then too, and I thought it was about the worst game I've ever played. I don't really even know if you could call it a pinball machine.

I spent too much time talking to people and didn't get to play half the games I had planned to. I wanted to play a bunch of these EMs because I had so much fun with them at Expo last year.

Remaining incognito. Good one.

That was a fun game....the pink ball made it lively. It's amazing that there's a whole row of drop targets and yet they're so hard to hit.

Adrian from the DFW pinball group on Facebook has one for sale. I have no idea of condition or what he is selling it for.

Thank you for the compliment. I really enjoy bringing top quality games to TPF for others to enjoy. Pinhead52 did the restoration. Stay tuned for TPF 2016. I should have 1 or 2 more games up my sleeve. It's great to have 51 weeks to plan ahead.

My only TPF 2015 regret is that people outside of the tournament did not get to play the 3 games I brought. I love giving Marcus games for tournament use, but I may limit it to one game of mine in the tournament and the rest on the floor for everyone to enjoy.

Amen

Yeah, no joke. I don't think I've been able to clear it at all one one ball. The flipper gap is HUGE, and the middle targets are practically sucker shots. I seem to have lost the pink glo-ball...I took it out to show my wife how dirty it was after the show and not sure where I put it.

Amen X2

Yeaaaaaa. LOL! That sounded bad.

"That's what she said."

Here's my Klondike back home wearing its new blue ribbon from TPF 2015. Thanks to EM-PINMAN for the great restoration job! I'm glad people enjoyed playing it at the show.

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Tried to run into you at the show but I guess I didn't get around to it. Thanks again for all your help in getting me up and running.

Yea, Ken, I didn't run into you. We were more casual this year. Had more time. Took a few breaks along the way. There is always next year.