Scrimmjob  - 2014-11-28
Man, I hate this game! For some reason until recently we had three of these on our route, which is very rare nowadays. I spent a lot of quality time keeping the buggers running. What seems like a lot of cool modes get stale after a few plays, and you have to hit the left ramp shot just right or it's never going up there.
The video says this is the first table to have a 4 ball multiball, which doesn't seem right at all, since this came relatively late (1995). Stars are for this dorky promo video, hard to believe they ever did stuff like this.
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Scrimmjob - 2014-11-29 Yeah, what's left of them. Otherwise it's jukeboxes, pool tables, arcade stuff and video poker. A lot of locations request pinballs, but they aren't the money makers they once were.
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infinite zest - 2014-11-29 I had a falling out with them but you might be familiar with CFF (crazyflipperfingers.com) and my friends in Ricochet left for Seattle, so it's a perfect storm of too many pins in Portland, weekly tournaments and, frankly, piss-poor maintenance. Like seriously. Fixing the drawbridge is one thing. But the saucer kickout? I'd do it myself but I'm not allowed to. That makes sense. I can fix a bike but I don't work at a bike shop. But there's plenty of bike shops, and to the best of my knowledge we're not abusing our bikes the way tournament pinballers abuse the pins
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Scrimmjob - 2014-12-01 I couldn't imagine trying to keep a whole arcade of pins up and running at all times. All the best tables are getting older every year, parts are getting more rare and more expensive. We have a scared stiff that is probably the best pin we still have, we bought a new boney beast ramp about 10 years ago, and it was 0 then. At this point I treat the ramp like delicate little crack babies.
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