Arcade Collecting > Pinball
A good pinball month for MameMaster....
MameMaster!:
Sold my Cyclone on Tuesday. Star Trek Next Gen is coming on Sat. Pic soon..... :cheers:
The line up will now be-- STNG, TOM, Stern Indy, VirtuaPin full sized emulator, and a Stern Spiderman.
(cue the "Stern Indy sucks comments :afro: ) ::)
TopJimmyCooks:
It's a really different pin- played it a few times at the beach recently. Looks more like an array of things to shoot laid out discretely/separately on the pf, with lanes or shots in between them, rather than a continuous wall of stuff like most pins. Not explaining that well but it is an interesting layout. I wanted to do more with it but the one I saw had a problem. it kept launching balls into the ark like it was ready for multiball, but would dump them out every minute or so onto the pf. So, high scoring, but no fun sweeping 4 balls off the flipper all the time.
I've heard a lot of great stuff about sttng as well, need to find one to play. nice get.
ChadTower:
STTNG has always struck me as a game for which you really have to like the theme. Not being a trekkie it just doesn't play that well for me. It feels to me like an older Bally widebody mistakenly trapped in a DMD game.
MameMaster!:
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MameMaster!:
We'll STNG is safely in my basement-- but it put up an incredible fight!
The guy who I got it from is highly reputable in NY. He brought it over with the head removed but it's over 350 lbs so I guess it made sense. He and his partner brought it down my stairs and set it up.
Unfortunately, when he connected the head the flippers didn't work. He then fiddled with the connectors- and when he hit a flipper we saw a spark, and the whole machine went dark. He literally killed it right in front of me. :angry:
He said would I take it for $3500 (that's less than what we agreed delivered) and I said no thanks, but I would give him an offer- but I just didn't want to insult him and gave him a much lower offer.
He said no, he couldn't do it- and we thanked each other. As he was packing it up he decided he'll take it.
I rolled the dice and it turns out I won on this one--- I put in an old extra power board I had, reconnected everything and noticed where he had misconnected the board. I turned it on-- an it worked perfectly! Thankfully he only damaged the power board.
This was pure luck- an a roll of the dice for me as I mentioned.....as I am afraid of tech issues. But I've had enough experience as this point to take an educated guess on the fix.
Score one for the MameMaster! :afro:
(and cue those who will say I still overpaid!-- even though you don't know what I ultimately spent--- :dizzy:)
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