Good luck, fellas. I live 20 mins from Destin, and I call the Florida Panhandle the "pinball wasteland". I prolly have more games in my home than nearly the entire area.

You're going to have to travel to Panama City or Pensacola, one hour in either direction for pinball. County Line Pizza closed this year, both locations, so their TAF, TZ, SS, and BOP are off the plate. No loss there: those games were in shit condition. Half the mansion inserts were gone, and TZ reset with both flippers pressed.

Visit OReilys further down the street. There's a WPT there.

Cordova Lanes and the bowling alley on 9mile should have some too.

I checked on this back in late May. All pinball at Cordova Lanes is gone. Pool tables only.

It is the tourist trap of the Panhandle. Makes driving on US 98 an absolute nightmare. Personally, I loathe that whole area and have been there maybe 7 times across the combined 25 years I lived in Pensacola and currently stationed at Eglin AFB.

Now Miramar Beach east of Destin..... THAT is a nice area. It is what Destin used to be - enjoyable and not completely congested.

Starcade had a Shadow last I scouted. Thing was so beat that someone clipped a work light on the back box shining down on the playfield because it was so dark. I have some pictures of it somewhere.

It probably is. I saw Shadow I'd guess......about a year ago. It was very tragic.

Who is the operator running all these shit games? TZ had more lights not working then working, reset issues, flippers that could not make either ramp shot, and the PF was beyond blown out.

TAF had half the mansion inserts completely missing.

SS was in equally bad shape.

I would have happily....happily offered $2K to save that TZ, starting with a new Mirco PF and learning the ins and outs of that entire game to bring it back from the dead. It was in ROUGH shape.

Midwest and NE Pinsiders have absolutely no clue how nice they have it vs. down here.

That's too bad. They're all junk now. The RCT is at White Sands bowling alley, and like all the others, embarrassing.

Revive....what?

There's nothing here. You can use the Pinside map and hope it is accurate.

I can tell you that AFM at Robinson's Cruise Thru is gone and has a half working Rocky and Bullwinkle.

Sorry to tell you all this, but this place sucks. If you take the map and give it the same cross-sectional area as the city of Houston (1,427 games to play), we have in comparison 215 games stretching from Mobile, AL to Panama City, FL. You guys in big cities have it SO nice you don't even know.

On your multi-day vacation here, welcome to what I've been dealing with for 4 years - no pinball to play unless it's in your house. Finding people to play with is almost just as difficult. I have to drive 2 hours each way just to play with other pinball guys and gals.

Do yourself a favor, go to the beach and enjoy the sunshine.

Well, you'll have two out of three!