Any reports on the Rochester show
Red Rocket
schmoo
> Just curious as to what's going on and the pin's they have
A bunch ! Only thing noteworthy that I saw on my walk through was
BBH and a Hercules. Tourney was going on in the back. Noticed a
Sopranos and The Shadow and two others that I can't remember. Not
much happening really. Gene sitting in the hall still pushing his $6
pop bumper caps and overpriced plastic sets ( bless his little heart )
and cointaker doing
their thing.
It was free and I still feel a little ripped off.
dorschel
A lot of machines sold today. Here is what pins are left as of 6pm
sat.
adams family
theater of magic
simpsons pinball party
twilight zone
sttng
home run
king of diamonds
wizards
flinstones
adams family#2
coquette
world series
jungle queen
space mission
elvis
eight ball deluxe
f14
cyclone
attack from mars
no fear
monster bash
tales of arabian nights
family guy
dirty harry
sopranos
shadow
flash
high speed
xfiles
high speed #2 (two of them)
world poker tour
getaway
firepower
gorgar
flash
indiana jones (williams)
terminator 2
johnny menmonic
fun house
adams family#3
no fear #2
leathal weapon III
world cup soccer
cl toro
road show
cue ball deluxe
who dunnit
big buck hunter
hercules
teed off
ice show
world series
and a really long ball bowler
I didnt bother to note all the vids but there are an equal # maybe
more.
great turnout.
p3 tourney is sold out.
good times!
ski n game
much bigger (in an old armory), but there was a charge to get in and
the people who were there went there as their target destination.
This year, having it in an active Mall and free, made for a large
number of folks who just happened upon the event. It certainly helped
expose pinball to a larger audience.
Today, it was packed. For the DMD machines, most were in constant
use, but you usually only had to wait for the current player to
finish. For the EMs, you didn't have to wait. (Definitely much fewer
EMs this show than 2 years ago.)
The tournament seemed to be very busy -- much busier than 2 years
ago. I think the 6 qualifying games were Shadow, Flash, Family Guy,
Sopranos, Dirty Harry, and (High Speed or Getaway?).
Red Rocket
Thanks for the reprt and list of pin's!! I have been thinking about a
POTC or RIBON, now I have to decide if I want to make a 31/2 hr. drive
to play a few pins.
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and to Bruce and his son? for bringing MB. That games rocks.
Oh, same for the AFM.
NF was not my cup of tea.
It kept kicking my ass. And I tried both of them.
The TAF with the outlane switch covers was horrible,
I though the T2 at $800 was fairly reasonable.
All the other pins were at "retail" prices.
I didn't get a chance to try the flintstones.
1 round of BBH. I kind of liked it.
It made me want to play again and some of the free games did not.
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Sirckus
1) Tons of foot traffic.
2) Lots of pin exposure for newbies and young-uns.
3) Lots of free pinball on machines that worked.
4) A "completely horrible" TAF with absolutely no magnet wear, a well
lit playfield and some interesting mods. (That one could play FOR
FREE)
5) Stress free buying and selling of games.
6) Oh yeah... and it was all FREE.
Big Thanks to everyone who put in time to make it happen.
(To the rest of ya... Keep Hatin' on the Hobby... you'll kill it soon
enough)
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Sunday
so the ball would go over the inlane covers. Not sure who owned that
one.
Mikes on the left was nice, had lots of GI out but played fine.
Ball got stuck once in an upper plastic but was fixed in 10 minutes.
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Red Rocket
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Just wanted to say thank you to all the organizers and people involved
for making the show possible with their time and hard efforts !!! I
took a nice Sunday drive from Toronto, had lots of fun! good lunch at
the food court at (Wasabi's) played a few pin's and bought some toys
like a pinball lifter and new ATV jack at Sears a neon sign for my
game room and did a little shopping at Mall !!!!
Looking forward to next year!!!