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Bootay

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Michigan Pinball Expo
« on: April 06, 2011, 05:18:16 pm »
Wasn't sure where to post this but I just wanted to let all of the Michigan users know about this:
http://www.mipinball.com/

It starts next Thurs. and ends next Sunday. Who is going?

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Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2011, 11:13:46 am »
Well....no one ever responded to this, but whatever. I went yesterday. It was pretty cool. I was able to try out a bunch of stuff I never tried but always wanted to. Here are a few of the experiences.

1) I played on my first digital pinball table. There were 3 of them there. It was alright but it didn't feel right. I would still build one just to play on tables I would never own I suppose, but obviously it was not the same as playing the real thing at all.
2) Some might think it sacrilege but I finally played Funhouse again after 20 or so years.....didn't really care for it much compared to a lot of others.
3) I finally played a multicab with vertical LCD and as expected, graphically it didn't look right to me. Way too blocky. So I will still stick to an arcade monitor if I ever get around to building one.
4) My son was a fan of Haunted House and Indiana Jones and surprisingly he really enjoyed the non-digital ones as well.

We were there from 5pm-11pm. I played on pretty much everything there. There were quite a few tables that I wanted to try that were either broke down or absent, but all in all it was worth the $12 admission.

Did anyone else go yet or plan on going ?

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Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2011, 03:44:00 pm »
Thank you for the update. I will visit next time

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Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2011, 06:02:19 pm »
I know this topic is getting a bit old, but since I did attend the MI Pinball Expo, I figured someone might enjoy the pix I took:















Sorry about the quality about the pix- the camera doesn't always want to cooperate.

-Rob

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Re: Michigan Pinball Expo
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2011, 10:05:30 am »
Not a problem. I had a lot of fun there. Thanks for the pics.