Re: good buying experiences
John Wart, jr
Great guy!
"kidgame2001" <BlueEyesSh...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> I've had two of them with Doug. One from the York Show back in
> October, and the other last week at the Allentown show.
>
> From October, reading everyone elses messages I remember seeing all of
> the above mentioned games. The machine I had bought (well my dad had
> purchased it much to my surprise) was a 2000 Stern Sharkey's Shootout.
> I don't know what it was about the game but I was at the show all day
> on saturday and like every hour on the hour I kept coming back to SS
> to play a few more rounds. Then I'd walk off play some more games and
> come back....to SS again. Right before we were ready to leave around
> 6pm I wanted one last game before we left. I finished and then when I
> turn around my uncle and dad were talking with Doug & the next thing I
> know my dad says "We'll take it" and hands over the money for it. The
> machine was in great shape and still is. I've always wanted to own a
> pinball machine and thanks to Doug that is quite easy and at
> reasonable prices too. Doug is a very kind person, he showed us how to
> open the backbox, how to go through the operator menus, run tests,
> etc, basically the basics of what you need to know. Though I had put
> none of my own money into buying the machine, my dad felt very
> comfortable in buying the machine from Doug. Me, my Dad, & my Uncle
> all agreed that doug made us feel fine with just handing over money
> for a nice big purchase such as a pinball machine. We will definitely
> buy more machines in the future from Doug.
>
> From Allentown this past weekend, I got a nice 1995 Bally Theater of
> Magic. I saw the pics he sent me and the machine looked like it was
> practically brand new out of the box! When I got to allentown I had
> actually played 2 of the older EM pins first, then went straight to
> Doug's vendor area. I was even surprised to see that he remembered who
> I was. TOM was already turned on and he promptly added some credits to
> the game, inviting me to try it out. It played very nicely and
> Saturday night when we took it home we set it up that night. I admit
> of the games that he had for sale the TOM that I got was very nice. T
PINAHOLIC
> I'd bet you're talking of Doug Huse?
>
> Great guy!
>
>
> - Show quoted text -
I bought a FH playfield, and a new plastic set to bring to Doug later
this spring or summer. He does really nice work. His games at
Allentown looked great, and played perfectly with no errors. I'd deal
with Doug in a second, and will!
-Al
kidgame2001
site so first time here. When I was posting that I thought I was
replying to a topic. Now that I went back and checked it was an old
topic that appears to be locked and the button I hit was reply to
author. I guess it sent you an email by mistake, sorry about that.
Anyway as you saw on the message it did cut out at the end. I was
trying to highlight a word at the end to edit but somehow it wound up
hitting send.
Anyhow to sum it all up, I have a 2000 Stern Sharkey's Shootout which
I got last october in York. Just got a 1995 Bally Theater of Magic in
allentown.
I want to get one of those Medieval Madness pins. They are quite a bit
of money but I won't stop until I own one.
Other pins that I have played and like (and would like to own - but
probably won't own too many due to lack of space unless I get a small
building and put my machines in that or rent a storage building and
keep games there and periodically swap them around)
From Bally, I would go with Addam's Family, Twilight Zone, Attack From
Mars, Cactus Canyon
From Williams, Medieval Madness, Johnny Mnemonic, No Fear, No Good
Gophers, Getaway high speed 2, Terminator 2, Tales of the Arabian
nights
From Gottleib, Stargate, Street Fighter 2, Super Mario Bros.
From Stern, all of them. other than Austin Powers pinball (which a
local arcade just got in, ive played it but dont like it too much),
I'll play and would like any Stern game.
On that subject, have you guys heard much about the new Stern Indiana
Jones pin? I happened to see something about it on Sterns website but
it just said the game was coming soon.
Also, John, what pins do you have? What pins do you want to buy
someday?
kidgame2001
Theater of Magic in allentown from Doug it did (does) look excellent.
When I saw the pics he sent me I thought that the game looked like it
was brand new out of the box. Seeing the game in person it still
looked nice and new. I did not have a chance to look at or play every
game he brought to Allentown, but aside from my Theater, the other
game which looked better was the Creature from the Black Lagoon that
he had. That one was awesome. He didn't have it set up on free play
and if you wanted to play it you had to ask him or his wife to put
credits on it. I see the point though since that thing looked brand
new you'd swear it just came out of the box. Completely new siderails,
lockdown bar, I've never played a game that was that Shiny! His wife
had put 1 credit on the game, and I managed to win 3 more free games,
just from that 1. Hit the replay score of 200 million, got the
special, and hit the number match at the end. Not bad for someone who
never played a Creature pin before.
mike
wrote:
Doug does great work and his games are 100 percent mechanically sound.
He stands behind his work too...Don't hesitate to buy from him....
Mike