monkeyboypaul

Spent a good hour playing Smash TV at Arcade Club Leeds last month. iiiiii LOVE IT! WOOO

Got £4k burning a hole in your pocket? buy the real thing! https://www.pinballinfo.com/community/threads/whoa-nellie-£4k-inc-vat.62312/

You and everyone else of our era. £6k upwards for decent condition. £10k for mint. Nuts. I had a lovely one about 5-6yrs ago (cost me £3k back then) but sold it - fun, nostalgic, relatively simple rules, but £6k and up buys you MUCH better and more reliable games these days.

Yes, I do. If you're serious join Pinball Info forum. Friendly bunch and they can offer you advice on the road to ownership. Also has a For Sale section. Realistically you'd need about £2.5-4k for a decent condition starter game. Any less and you're into crappier and older EM-style machines. I've assumed you're after a DMD-era game, as most are. I'd agree that they can be expensive to buy - just look at new machine prices on Pinball Heaven if you want a heart attack. All fuelled by ever increasing demand & the poor GBP/dollar exchange rates. Ongoing maintenance can be a pain, but not necessarily and don't let it put you off - communities like that forum really can be a lifesaver. There are lots of new/replacement parts available still too, due to the large market of people still owning older games. I've had machines give me zero issues in 6yrs, but I don't play them very often, and I give them a once over when I buy just to avoid issues in future. Preventative maintenance. That's not to say parts aren't expensive - they can be, it's on an entirely different level in terms of cost and complexity vs. fruits I'm afraid. FAR more sociable though - plus 1 pin is never enough! Happy to advise if you need - owned pins for 10yrs.

Good topic, I've often wondered why Fruit Emu died so badly, and why DiF and MPU Mecca don't merge because I can't really see the difference (to an untrained eye). Yes, I appreciate there was some perceived admin militancy which put people off, but when you run this type of thing you really do need to keep your nose clean these days, so I get it. Some people are just short tempted and rude, especially online, and it's not necessary nor welcome. Quite a few people have taken to using Facebook as a pseudo forum too, which sort of works, but I prefer this type of thing personally.

You must be getting quite adept at making them then. Got no clue about casino slot machines, sorry. Only the AWP’s from the 90’s. I owned a Congo pinball for several years, it’s very similar to TRON in terms of layout (which I still have). Hitting a clean volcano shot up the right hand side always left a massive grin on my face! The grey gorilla mini game was annoying though. My current physical favourite is ‘92 FishTales - so simple and basic, easy to learn but hard to master - and this is why I love pinball so much now.

Welcome! What’s your current favourite pinball & fruity to play on the emulators? It’s more common to hear horror stories of fruit machine addiction on this particular site, but in my case Virtual Pinball has been the expensive rollercoaster (pun intended) - virtual led to physical, 1 machine led to many… it’s so addictive! Try Pinball Info (more geared towards U.K. pinball owners) and vpuniverse/VPin forums.

same. I sometimes tolerate the £15's, but for me anything on a descent price per play with a low jackpot has the most fun. My favourite being JPM BigBucks on 20p / £4jp - full of life and surprises.

Yeah, i wouldn't write BOTW off - there's good reason why it gets rated so highly, it just takes a while to adjust - just like it did with Mario64. There's so much to see and so much to play about with, a real sandbox game, but equally you can just go direct to the dungeons and get on with it. I'm really looking forward to BOTW2, becuase i'm a Nintendo addict and will buy it regardless of whether i have time to play it or not! Remember trading my SNES with nicely boxed games (all collectable now) in for a PS1, and regretted it ever since (except C&C Red Alert). PS1 didn't last long for me. Back to N64 and never bought a Playstation console since - i didn't want cool, i wanted just enough good games to keep me happy. Link's Awakening was brilliant at the time, but so basic now and really showing its age when you compare it to BOTW, or even Link to the Past for that matter. I agree though, it was a really emotive experience. Wind Waker is excellent too.