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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 21, 2014 15:06:54 GMT -5
looks cool, mod. your idea of heaven? *mod walks in, hears choirs of angels singing*
that hurricane game looks downright trippy.
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Post by Mod City on Oct 21, 2014 18:36:33 GMT -5
The Hurricane was trippy and beautiful. Very cool.
And yeah, it was kind of a shock to see it all set up. The game hall was only half full and all the lights were on when we set up the Rollergames. We came back three hours later and it was full, the lights were down and they were all on. What a sound. We stopped at the door, and my brother said it simply and the best way possible: "Wow."
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 22, 2014 9:27:31 GMT -5
did you guys talk to a lot of people into it - those who collect and work on them like you both do? that is one sound that will always be part of my childhood - the glowing lights and pinging of a couple dozen pinball machines going all at once when i'd walk into an arcade.
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Post by Mod City on Oct 22, 2014 12:29:06 GMT -5
We did get to meet a few cool people, but being the newest of the new at one of these shows, we weren't particularly outgoing. In fact, in some cases the scene can be extremely cliquey. But like I said, most were very nice and genuinely interesting people.
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Post by nondescript spice on Nov 12, 2014 11:17:57 GMT -5
i found you a couple of chicks that like pinball and beer, mod -
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Post by Crowfan on Nov 12, 2014 11:35:11 GMT -5
GRANDMA?!?
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Post by Mod City on Nov 12, 2014 22:26:30 GMT -5
Sweet, with an ashtray and bottle of Schlitz right on the glass! Judging by the vintage of the photo, it's likely they were playing when pinball was widely illegal. There were some places you could play it, but it was pretty limited.
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Post by Crowfan on Nov 13, 2014 6:04:55 GMT -5
Why was pinball illegal?
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Post by Mod City on Nov 13, 2014 11:00:54 GMT -5
It was considered a game of chance, i.e. gambling, especially before the advent of flippers. There were, at one point, a few machines that were designed as payout machines, but those were few compared to the machines that were produced "for amusement only," a label you still find on pinball machines today. Owning a pinball machine was legal, and manufacturers in the United States still made them and shipped them overseas to Europe, but it was hard to find a pinball machine in a major US city in public. Here's a decent synopsis of the moment when pinball became legal again in NYC. And yes, the story is quite legendary in the pinball world. www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/when-pinball-was-illegal/
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Post by Crowfan on Nov 13, 2014 19:21:27 GMT -5
I never knew that. Pretty interesting.
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