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RGR, love the pic! A really hot girl playing one of my favorite classic '80s pins in Embryon, and flipping it the bird! Doesn't get any better that this, i'm in love!

Hey Molls (if I may), this is one of my all-time favorite pins.

Play it every day!

It sits alongside my Silverball Mania, and my beloved Gulfstream.

Hope you still have it, I think it's a great pin.

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That's a Super Star of a machine.

I prefer to be called Molls by my chums, so call me Molls! Sadly I sold the Super Star when I was a bit hard up. Super Star and a Bally Knockout, $600 for the pair fully working. Bummed about the SS; I saw a guy selling an EM on craigslist and in his pics you could see just the tiniest corner of a Super Star...I was willing to buy whatever POS he was selling if I could talk him into the Star too, but no dice.

Okay, I'll say it: Girls aren't into pinball.

This is true in the general sense, just like saying that girls aren't into Rush.

Of course, the exceptions, in both cases, are mega-cool!

Don't worry. Now that Super Star has been talked about, one will surely turn up for you.

Just like the Firepower did for me!

The host of the pinball tournies in the twin cities is female.

As for the picture of the woman giving the finger to a machine, wearing a dress. That's the one you marry!

Awesome.
Let the record show, it was Dan that said it.

Sad but true...I have 3 girls...18, 13, 11...some initial fun and then nothing with SM and Lotr....same thing with my wife........maybe Woz ignites something but I highly doubt it....girls have too much common sense to do pinball.....

Might be one of the smartest things I've ever posted, or maybe the only?.....(as my wife sneaks a look at my typing)

Well, that's too bad that women don't play more where you guys are. It seems to me like there are so many women at the events, tourneys, expos, etc; I know female techs, operators, and collectors, and I have many nights at PNN where the crowd is more female than male. I guess a few decades of female objectification in the artwork packages, while generally amusing, ended up leaving a lot of women disinterested! As a female who has been in the hobby for a while now, I get a little tired of having my gender pointed out constantly; I know I'm a woman...I don't see why that has to come up in half the pinball conversations I have.

It's just strange to me that this is even a topic. Women play pinball all over, and kick ass at it. A lot of women do great things in/for the hobby despite the fact that it's historically a boys' club, and most of these chicks have a lot more to offer than just "being female"...so ignore the gender thing! But then again, I clearly don't have any "common sense", haha.

I wonder if part of it relates to the industry ?

You don't see many women in the coin op industry. Manufacturing, distributing, or operating.

But when you do, they are usually very special. Very talented. Very gifted.

This probably spills into pinball as we know it. Collecting, shows, tournaments.

And their numbers keep growing.

Not so much because they are female. But because so many of them are great people.

LTG : )

Where I come from it is quite rare to see a female playing pinball. When I was in Seattle on vacation it was very noticeable from my point of view to see so many of them playing. I don't think those that point it out to you mean it in a bad way at all. Most likely they are happy to see girls playing.

It's true about Rush for some reason. Girls (most) don't care for Rush or Dire Straits. Don't know why. But 95% of the girlfriends i've ever had couldn't stand either. But then again. Most of them liked Poison, Bon Jovi and Kiss. And those are mostly chic bands. Kiss is about 50/50.

I think it's Geddy's voice on the Rush front. My wife can't stand his voice.

Myself on the other hand have probably seen them 8 or 10 times live.

My wife and my 20 year old daughter both love pinball. All three of us are at about the same skill level, so it makes for some great competition.

The conversation that will never die!

There's good Rush and there's reeeeeeeeaaaaalllllllly bad, grating Rush. I play drums so, I mean, ya gotta at least respect Neil. Ew, NEO, Dire Straits? Haha, ugh. Poison? Kiss? That's some of my least favorite music.

At PNN it's mainly Steely Dan, Sade, Ween, Curtis Mayfield, and Loretta Lynn, crooning away. My musical tastes are even worse than my bizarro pin tastes!

I don't have any problems with a women playing pinball. In fact, I'd rather play next to a sweet smelling, good looking women then a stinking farting old man any and every time!

what's wrong with Dire Straits? Brothers in Arms is one of the best albums ever made (not including greatest hits). Phenomenal from start to finish.

Lloyd, I'm sure it has a lot to do with the industry. The games were almost never designed to attract women. There are hundreds and hundreds of titles slathered with big spherical-breasted 14" waist women...and how many games sexualizing men? I'm thinking zero. So the manufacturers only wanted half of the population's quarters!

Lots of things have changed though, and most women are comfortable just giggling at the artwork and focusing on the flips. If people want t make a big fuss about my gender, or looks or whatever....uhhh, okay. Totally boring though, let's talk about how I can do a full teardown, shop out, and rebuild on a Whitewater in under six hours! Then get 8.2 billion on it!

^^^^^ Bazinga!

Now you're talking.

Funny. I always wanted a pinball machine with a middle age fat guy in a dirty T shirt drinking a beer on the backglass.

Call it Studs and Suds, or something.

LTG : )

I was just goofin' you; I just don't really care for DS, but that record is decent.

It's okay to have different taste, folks! Guess what, I HATE the look of LEDs, I find most of the A titles to be EXTREMELY boring at this point, and I think clear coating playfields makes them suck! And people get SO mad at me that they cant even have a discussion about how it's okay to prefer Flash Gordon to, say, LOTR...it's just a matter of taste! It's so subjective, yet so many of us get all bent out of shape about it.

Truth be told it is a double standard.

You could design your own....

I see those as being great musical tastes.

What about BIG GUNS? Tons of dicks on that machine!

Um, go into a little more detail about how this is a double standard situation?

I'm not an engineer or a designer, so I don't have any plans to make my own game. Dreams yes, plans no. It's 30-40 years later and facts are facts; I'm not trying to rewrite history, here. Man, Margaret Hudson must've put up with so much crap!

Some people have a really hard time coping with this.

You said it yourself:

Rocks wife? Never to late to learn some engineering. If you have the dreams they are ideas, you have a start all ready.

That is one seriously good WH20 score

And Sade is great btw - especially her early stuff!

Oh I just spit out my cereal when i read you got 8.2 billion on WH20. In awe, why do I suck so much

PinballMolly, you are my new pinball hero! Excellent setup at Pins'n'Needles!! If I were a bit closer to LA I'd definitely spend a LOT of time at that place!!! Awsome and some more!!

Molly is approaching "1,000" karma! Not bad considering you just got here!!!

Gratz

8.2B on WW! Damn!
Molly is a player. I played with her in Pinburgh A division last year.

I believe that score unto itself restricts her to A at Pinburgh!

I had fun in A last year! Last place, bitches! I got to brush elbows with some of the top players in the world, Pangea!

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Here ya go! Four player game, I was player 1. Took an hour & 45 minutes. 7 Wet Willies and four double vacation jackpots. BEA is my beloved departed cat, best cat ever; I reserve the initials for my whoppingest games!

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How long has Molly been into pinball?

Always liked it, started collecting about ten or eleven years ago.

I challenge Pinball Molly to a game of Whitewater at Pinburgh. Who's with me?

Not me. I can't play upside down.

LTG : )

Hoping to find the bay area equivalent of Molly, I dont think this exists. Attractive, kicks your ass in pinball and can fix pins better than most men too! p.s. She hauls pins too holy shit!!!!! Sorry I promise I won't hump your leg Molly.

Post the vid to papa! I wanna see some double vacation jackpot action!

Molly, I am envious of your collection. You have quite a few 80s sci-fi themed pins I wouldn't mind having in my house. You also round it out with later-80s cheesy photo backbox-art Premier & Gott machines. Love it!

My money's on Molly.

lol scores 8 bill on wh20 but cant put the photo the right way up.... hmmmmm rofl

Why are y'all saying it's upside down? It's right side up on both my computer and phone.