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Pinball Hall of Fame must plays?
Jeff AMN:
Both Black Hole and Haunted House were working very well earlier this year when I visited.
chiLLbiLLy:
The #1 must play machine out there is Pinball Circus, without a doubt. Not because it's a great game (it isn't), but due to it's super uniqueness and rarity (only 2 in existence, I think is the claim), you just simply have to try it out. I found it quite fun, myself, but also quite easy. Not a game I would keep coming back to, but I'm glad to say I've played the only one out there. Where is the other one, I wonder?
Beyond that, the PHOF just has lots of stuff you've probably never seen or have only seen in photos, unless you tour the country regularly attending pinball conventions. Lots of EM games, too, if that floats your boat. I quite enjoyed playing Q-Bert's Quest, Fireball, '79 Star Trek and many of the woodrails, EM's and others that just don't make it to my neck of the woods out at the Texas Pinball Festival.
And while it's probably cheaper to just charge a flat fee and play any game for free after that, like they do at pinball conventions, I kinda like the fact that it's pay-to-play there. Makes earning a free game (or matching) mean something again...
Pinball Wizard:
If you play Pinball Circus you should play the pinball that is in a Robotron cabinet. It's again not the greatest game in the work but where else are you going to play it?
--- Quote from: chiLLbiLLy on November 18, 2010, 04:40:45 pm ---And while it's probably cheaper to just charge a flat fee and play any game for free after that, like they do at pinball conventions, I kinda like the fact that it's pay-to-play there. Makes earning a free game (or matching) mean something again...
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That's why when my gameroom is finished (does that ever happen?) I'm putting it on tokens. I know that you will just be able to go up to my changer and push a button on it but it is still the fact of the coin that makes the difference.
chiLLbiLLy:
Yeah, I think that if you ever consider your gameroom as actually being 'finished', then you're probably either:
1) Dead
2) Broke
3) About to get married/have a child (see #2 & maybe #1)
4) About to get divorced (definitely see #2)
5) Have lost all interest in the hobby
:cheers: as far as using coins in your own gameroom goes, though. I don't have a coin changer or anything, yet, but it still makes a huge difference to me, to have to run over and grab some actual quarters out of a jar and actually put them into the pinball machines or arcade machine, versus just constantly coining-up using free credits. Guess it all just depends on what you're used to. I grew up in the arcades back in the day, so I'm used to using real quarters or tokens, plus I like periodically opening the machines to collect the coins and what have you...just like an arcade or game operator would do.
Pinball Wizard:
I just got lucky with the changer. I paid $40 for it in an unknown condition and got lucky that it worked. It is a nice one and it hold ~$100 in it.
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