Very happy to join this rather exclusive club. Got my Melons a week ago and love it. I swapped a Tron Pro for it believe it or not - I absolutely love Tron, but who can resist Melons? There's only three in Australia as far as I know, so feel a bit privileged to be one of those three.

My highest score so far is 8700 (as seen in the picture). Just got that tonight!

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Default settings, 5 balls, and I haven't changed the pitch at all from how I received it. It's certainly not steep though, in fact probably as flat as it gets.

I remember when the game first arrived in Australia, it was on location at Coogee Diggers by AMD. On that one I won a competition for highest score set over the first month, which was over 9000. So I at least want to beat that at some stage!

Has anyone put a protector on the gobble hole at all? If so, what and where did you get it? I'm just looking at mine and noticing that's the spot that's getting some wear, but I don't know if there's anything out there that can do anything about it...

Thanks very much for this, I'll check them out!

Yeah I haven't gotten to the third set yet either, but rumour has it that's the 'ultimate' goal.

I have a new high score of 9055, so I'm getting close to clocking it. I'll be giving it a good go this weekend so here's hoping...

Well I got a fair bit of time on my melons over the weekend - I have the sore palms to prove it (from nudging guys, get your minds out of the gutter).

I managed to get the rollovers a second time through and collect at the gobble hole. I can confirm that doing this gives you some new callouts (I won't spoil them), and also changes the 200 point lit up shot to a flashing lit shot that awards 300 per shot (not actually sure the value as I couldn't look up! But the sound dings 3 times instead of 2). The rollovers then continue to flash as if you were trying to complete them a second time. Unfortunately I only managed to collect one more then drained...

So the challenge is still on - collect the rollovers 3 times. It's bloody hard!

I thought I clocked it the other day - I was on around 9900 something, and I'm SURE I saw it go over 9990 and it tick over... But then when I looked up again when my ball drained my final score was 9978. I don't know if something weird happened but that is the recorded final score... A little disappointed!

Oh well, back to the drawing board.

Interesting hearing the callouts on that 2nd Thumpin' Time, because when I got the 2nd it was a different set of callouts (not used anywhere else in the game either, like these). I wonder how many there are!

There must be 4 in Australia then. I have one here in Sydney, and there's one up in the Timezone in QLD. Either way, you don't see them very often!

Yeah I believe it is on the crate. There's no other way to play the game in my opinion. Such a unique package.

I'd be really keen for a print too!

With the release of WNBJM on Pinball Arcade just recently, I reckon a lot of people will now realise what a great game it is and that will drive some demand. My prediction is that it will become much more sought after.