Church of the Silver Ball

[RayB]

Visited the Church of the Silverball on Saturday. This is a personal collection of pins belonging to a couple here in Toronto, set up in the "office" portion of a warehouse/work space, who open up to the public every now and then.

http://www.thechurchofthesilverball.com/

NICE collection! Some of the notables were Circus Voltaire, Tommy (had 3 different variations of the game), Twilight Zone, The Shadow, Creature from the Black Lagoon (not working), Austin Powers, Fish Tales, Star Wars episode 1, Attack from Mars, Simpsons (DE), Mario World (the big one, not the small one), Centaur (unique art!), Strikes & Spares, Evil Knieval, a couple 2 player VS pins, couple batting games, several EMs and more I'm not remembering.

I'm starting to itch more and more for one of my own.

One thing of note, the EMs had LEDs. I noticed the downside of these is when the ball moves fast, the strobing effect of LEDs becomes noticeable. If you dont know what I mean, get out your LED christmas lights, and wave them side to side. They don't "blur" like regular lights do, because for whatever reason, they "blink" but so fast you don't normally see it.

I also picked up a Galaxy Railway Pachinko.

[Pinball Wizard]

Just out of curiosity, did the centaur have the Say It Again board working?

[RayB]

Just out of curiosity, did the centaur have the Say It Again board working?

Did it have speech? Yes. Definitely a cool part of the game since it "instructs" the player on what to do next (ie: "Release the orb"), and not as irritating as Gorgon, since it seemed to have many words. However I did find it funny that for "2x" it would say "two ex" instead of "2 times" bonus.

[Pinball Wizard]

I meant did it sound like the first one or the second one in this video:

[RayB]

Pretty sure it was like the 2nd one, no echo.