Hahah I have a couple friends who do this. Just makes me want to play better to blow them off the boards!

PLAY BETTER!

Just reset the game and claim Lightning strike

Then he's not the man. The man has the GC score. End of story.

I use to take games to shows for tournaments and I always reset the high scores before each event. Then when I got the games home, I had homework to do to knock those new high scores down. Took me months to take down a high score Zach Sharpe put on my RBION.

You know what they say... to be the man you got to beat the man!

Great story and one of the reasons most of us got into pinball from the start, to share a game or laugh with friends and family. I would see it as a fun challenge and opportunity to test his "Man" card on the next visit. In our house as long as my wife doesn't hit GC (never hear the end of that!) all is good. While its fairly second nature to most of us, when a guest has the chance to put their name up they often remember the fun and look forward to another visit. Sometimes its as fun to see others enjoy your hobby as playing yourself.

time to sell the games, get a rocking chair and yell at the darn neighborhood kids

Do you remember what was his score?

Just do what toddsvec did to me; pull the battery and it never happened. Todd, we both know who has the high score on whitewater!! Also Todd is a great dude!!

My brother in law sets games to 5 ball when he’s in town to piss my wife off.
He will sit there and play four player games by himself to try to knock my wife’s score off a machine.
I don’t really give a shit, but it drives my wife nuts.

He could have put “Matt the DF”, “Matt is Everywhere”, “Beat This”…he was pretty Disney with it, he showed respect and restraint.

Limit your games to three initials...

I thought you were going to say something that really is a bad violation, like everyone eating hot dogs with ketchup on them while you were not there.

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The turn side is my wife makes it her goal to knock his scores off only using three balls. I’ll come home from work and she’s usually playing something trying to get her score back while she working on dinner.
She’s usually successful, which makes the entire thing even more amusing.

I was sort of expecting to come in here and see some NSFW photos. Disappointed!

My last initials entry at my friend BZY’s house:

BZY SUX

When I read the title of this thread of the game room being "violated", I had visions of a pet getting access to the area and leaving a special package in the room, or a person doing the same out of spite, perhaps in the corner somewhere. I was surprised when I read that the visitor left a high score or something of the kind and that was the "violation". A high score can easily be removed by resetting those scores, so this does not seem to be a big issue to me. All that has to be done is a new high score made to wipe of the "offending" party. Just seemed a little surprising that this became a violation of anything.

I don't think it's a big issue to him, either

buddy kept saying I was infecting his games with my high scores when I came over...

so now I always use 'STK VIRUS' when logging scores on the 10character scoreboards

I thought "violated" meant there was a Gottlieb in your game room.

Seems like this is like more of a challenge to show who the "the man" really is.
I would want to visit this guys house and place my high scores on his games in addition to removing his from my games.
Competition is usually a good thing as long as it stays friendly.
My high score entries would just be my initials.
No further "manly" inserts would be required.
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On a related topic, I thought it was strange when a friend of mine decided not to do some code updates on some machines because the high scores would be removed during that update.
I found that to be rather strange since the high scores could just be repeated later on, assuming they were not a fluke of some kind in the first place.
However, the owner did not agree with that logic and declined those code updates so the high scores would remain.
I could not quite understand that conclusion because I would want my machines to have the latest code updates and the high scores were probably just a recent record anyway.
Just my thoughts...

Bite your fucking tongue.

This is a worst violation!

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If your son in law does that… imagine what else he does

3 initial entries are the way to go as mentioned.
I always set my route (and home) games to 3 letters because people think they are cute putting up annoying shit, “game sucks” “bar sucks” “eat pu$$y” “suck d1ck”
Too much freedom for some to handle in public, and at home apparently.

A clear violation of etiquette and one that must be responded to strongly and firmly. You need to knock him off the board and replace his challenge with “Beat this Matt”. Preferably several times to make the point. It will drive him crazy next time he comes over…and you *know* he’s going to be checking to see if he’s still there.

I don’t normally advocate this, but……take the glass off if you have to. A point has to be made lol…..

Jealous. Neither of my kids or their significant others love the pins (tolerant, maybe even understand a little or like a little, but not love). I would forgive a multitude of sins if one of my daughters said, we all just wanted to come over and play some pinball!

You are so right! Occasionally it is fun to play alone, but I usually have more fun sharing the game room with others.
I suggest you get some practice in for the next visit and sort this out like men!
Game on!!!

All I have to say is Tonya Harding that mofo.

Yes, I do. 71,074,470.

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Besides the normal tourney settings (EB's turned off, tight tilt, mystery equalized), the game had upgraded flipper coils (all three) and wide open out lanes. Pitch was a little over 7 degrees. It was not Ripley's as Pat Lawlor intended. I left the settings the same when I got it home.

I am Guessing all my High Scores are gone then , .Damn. Enjoy The games and the gameroom, Get back them Scores Man!

Can PoTC be configured to log either 3-char initials or longer strings like Stern pins? If so, change it to 3-char and see what happens to his message!

I like it when others knock me down on my games. Gives me something new to shoot for.

You should give your Daughter, and Son-in-Law, a pin next Christmas. Of course you'll need to visit more often in 2022 and occasionally make your mark in the leaderboards. Lucky to have a pinball family.