Well the arcades are long gone, so where can we go to play other machines? Well unless you have other buddies with machines its pretty slim pickin's. The only places that I go locally where I live are the airport, some bowling alleys, and a few pubs. OH, and I played one in a laundry mat one time. Even if you do find a pin somewhere to play its usually in rough shape or doesn't play properly and is poorly maintained. I was just in the local pub last weekend and they have a new batman in there and it had like 7 credits in it that I saw, then I went up to it and the ball was stuck on the playfield in a spot where it WASN'T coming out and it was stuck on ball 1. Another pub I went to a few weeks ago had a Whirlwind, and the playfield and the spinning discs were so dirty and worn out that it didn't even play properly.
As mentioned before, I think us the masses, need to post where to play and what is out there. If one of the moderators could set up a section, kind of like the map of the pinsiders. Wouldn't really have to change any kind of format, just have the map come up, then you could click or type in the name of a location and fill out all the info that you know about where and what to find for pins. Also you could click or type in the name of other locations and see what's there and what others have posted about the area. That's my suggestion in the matter, because if you just have a long forum post about locations, then you would have to read, scroll, read, scroll, and with lots of entries that would be alot of info to go through!!!
(Topic ID: 86)
Louisville, KY
Alkmaar
